Esclarmonde,
How are you today! I remember "Be Here Now, by Babe Ram Dass." One of the first books of the higher sciences I ever read. Had a picture in it of this indian looking fellow with his tongue sticking out about a foot. I thought what the heck! I could not figure out for a long time it only involved being in breath you were breathing at that moment. It is a book about breathing you know.
I used to go to a little church called the cosmic church of truth where a man, I think he may be dead now, used to go in a trance like Edgar Cayce and speak in a Chinese accent. (Family thought I was crazy).
Anyway, I read, what I though were all the good books, you know, Cayce, Lobsang Rampa. I began to debate the guy one day telling him where I thought he was off the mark. He looked at me and said, "you don't know alot about the higher sciences do you?' I have never forgotten that to this day. I look back now and think it somewhat humorous.