A Place Called Ananda: The Trial by Fire That Forged One of the Most Successful Cooperative Communities in the World TodayJ. Donald Walters wanted to serve the organization. He believed in it deeply. However, he wouldnot endlessly compromise his beliefs. This book tells the age-old story of institutional demandsversus individual conscience. The story is told with courage and with charityfrom his trainingspent under the great spiritual master, Paramhansa Yogananda, to years in India, to SanFrancisco during the sixties and his own encounters with some of the leading figures of theday, to the community he gradually evolved. |
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Contents
Main Persons in This Story | 11 |
Introduction | 13 |
Part | 17 |
Yoganandas Mission to the West | 21 |
Masters Commission to Me | 35 |
Organizing the Work | 47 |
The Third Presidency | 60 |
Polarization | 84 |
Afterthoughts | 203 |
Part | 204 |
Getting My Sea Legs | 209 |
Your Work Is Writing and Lecturing | 221 |
Seclusion vs Outward Activity | 225 |
A Choice Is Thrust upon Me | 236 |
Take Up Writing Music | 247 |
Dive into the Water | 258 |
Six Blind Boys and an Elephant | 97 |
Rights and Wrongs | 105 |
Go to India | 110 |
My First Year in India | 116 |
My First Lecture Tour | 137 |
Fresh Water for Dirty Drains | 147 |
Return to America | 153 |
The Delhi Project | 164 |
The Reaction | 180 |
Retrospect | 192 |
New Age Movements | 268 |
Crystal Clarity | 283 |
Land Ahoy | 297 |
Domes and SelfExpansion | 310 |
Ananda Retreat | 330 |
Hidden Influences | 343 |
Community Beginnings | 365 |
Karmic Patterns | 395 |
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