Since, for most of my Life, I've never been much of a 'Sleeper'......and have averaged 3-4hrs/night of sleep.....usually awakening from Apnea....wide awake....and, seldom, returning to 'deep, unconscious, 'deep' sleep.......This afternoon, going through some old books that I've had since my early 20's, I picked up...and read parts of....THE PRIMORDIAL BREATH, Vol I...AN ANCIENT CHINESE WAY OF PROLONGING LIFE THROUGH BREATH CONTROL..... One of the many 'new age-ish' books that accompanied the Hippie Mind Set in the late 1960's and early 1970's.... On a shelf with BE HERE NOW, The Works of R.D. Laing/Rollo May, P. D. Ouspensky, George Gurdjieff, Meher Baba, and other psychologist/philosophers/occultists/eccentrics that were sitting cross-legged and chanting 'Om's' for the trendy/fashionable sub-culture then as Ragas and Sutras, accompanied by tablas, finger-cymbals, hang drums, kotos and sitars, Tony Scott albums and 'East Meets West' collaborations implored American Youth to 'go inside' before running about, 'outside'......so, lots of brown rice, seaweed, rice and green tea later......I'm watching, with tolerant amusement, some Emory Philosophy/Psychology students, smoking weed and dancing with 'talking' drums and tambourines..... chanting some gibberish in Swahili, while jumping around in the concrete parking area just to keep warm.........as their less-involved friends, seated on the deck in heavy winter coats and fingerless gloves, search for meaning on their hand-held 'devices', diving every few seconds into bags of chips and bottles of tomato pesto......
