"Barefoot in the Heart" is a collection of transcribed oral stories of the Indian saint Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji). It includes many anecdotes and first-person retellings of stories collected in India and the in the USA over a period of 9 years, by Keshav Das, including a small selection of unpublished stories originally intended for inclusion in "Miracle Of Love" by Ram Dass. "Barefoot In The Heart" is a divine raft to take us across the ocean of darkness to the glorious land of light. Every page is filled with Maharajji's nectar..... Profound gratitude to Keshav Das and his collaborators.... - Jai Uttal

Barefoot in the Heart: Remembering Neem Karoli Baba: Neem Karoli Baba

Religion & Spirituality

Das, Keshav

Hinduism

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"Amongst the oil fumes and the briny dinge of the sea, greasy, tired, frustrated, I had a flash. Suddenly, I had it all figured out-the psychology of despots and CEOs. I figured that in order for civilization to exist, people have to stay in one place, and so it seems somehow natural that the evolution of society would be to create an illusion of motion where none exists. Faster cars. Faster editing. Increased sensory stimulation. But all the while we are actually sitting more and more still. The population is placated by the feeling of progress, when in reality they are imprisoned. Even if we feel or strive to be utterly irresponsible, we're still somehow doing our job." Carl Watson evokes his desolation angels with great empathy and care, but also with ruthless candor. He writes like someone who pushed himself to the wall, then pushed through it to the void and came back with stories to tell. Here he reclaims the Seventies, one of the more desolate of recent epochs, with the clarity of Proust, the balefulness of Bodenheim, and the raw honesty of an Iggy song. -John Strausbaugh, author of Black Like You and Sissy Nation "CW writes like he put his thumb in the air on some two-lane American highway that used to be an Indian Trail, where he got picked up by God. Like he has come back to the fire in the woods we have gathered around at the end of the world with our loved ones to tell us what he saw. -Andrew Huebner, author of We Pierce, American By Bloodand East of Bowery With prose unfurling like cigarette smoke bleeding into that cloud of half-forgotten memories forever shadowing missed opportunities that hangs over a noonday dive somewhere during the twilight of the last blown century, heartbreak rock-n-roll on the radio crackling in exquisite precision between am stations and windswept interstates, Carl Watson daydreams before silent black-and-white televisions in SRO lobbies or as he drinks himself sober in crumbling Chicago tenements. Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming explodes the bleary-eyed myth of the American road. -Donald Breckenridge, author of This Young Girl Passing Carl Watson's work is desolate poetry. He writes with sharp nostalgia for a past that really wasn't all that great. It feels like a stay in a down-and-out motel, but right on the other side of the paper-thin wall is transcendence. Watson never lets you forget that even in the most desperate situations, there is humor (even if it's mostly black) and greatness of the spirit. -Emily XYZ, United States of Poetry

Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming

Literature & Fiction

Watson, Carl

Contemporary

Sensitive Skin Number 10 features out-takes from his "Wall Street" collection by famed photographer Charles Gatewood ("Sidetripping," "Forbidden Photographs"), fiction by Gary Indiana ("Scar Tissue and Other Stories," "White Trash," "Horse Crazy," "Gone Tomorrow"), Max Blagg ("Ticket Out"), Drew Hubner ("East of Bowery"), Patrick O'Neil ("The Hold-Up"), E. A. Fow, Tony DuShane ("Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk") and Raul Serrano Sanchez ("Catálogo de ilusiones"), poetry by Flarf pioneer Sharon Mesmer ("Annoying Diabetic Bitch," "The Virgin Formica"), Ron Kolm ("Divine Comedy"), Pete Simonelli ("Night Sees You First," "A Lonely War") and Michael Randall, essays by James Reich ("Bombshell," "I, Judas"), Ronald B. Richardson ("Narrative Madness"), cinema of transgression co-founder Nick Zedd and Breyten Breytenback ("The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist"), paintings by Peter Shear, and music by Steve Adams (ROVA Saxophone Quartet), with additional art, illustrations and photographs by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre ("The Ruins of Detroit"), Ruby Ray ("From the Edge of the World: California Punk, 1977-1981"), Chris Bava, Megan Baker, David West ("Music: Drawing Down the Muse"), Jeff Spirer, Charlie Homo, Ted Barron, Justine Frischmann, Julie Torres and Tom McGlynn.

Sensitive Skin Number 10

Randall, Michael

Zedd, Nick

Mesmer, Sharon

Kolm, Ron

Sanchez, Raul Serrano

Breytenback, Breyten

Richardson, Ronald B.

Simonelli, Pete

Literary

Christian X. Hunter's three-decade tramp transports us through the evolution of '60s East Village counter culture in a kaleidoscope of freaks, to the '80s with Warhol Superstars, Times Square grifters, junkie poets, rock stars, revolutionaries, in the back rooms of the Fillmore East, Max's Kansas City and The Mudd Club. Christian X. Hunter a native New Yorker, is a former coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, an original member of the Unbearables and a lifelong musician who has played with a spectrum of artists including Sandy Bull, Poppa Chubby, Jeff Buckley, Alice Coltrane, Babu Kishan Baul, Krishnadas and Sting. He has been a contributor to, NY Press, American Book Review and Autonomedia Press. In The Absence of Angels, Hunter's incredible odyssey opens with him as a kid in the late 1960s, surviving the streets of the old Lower East Side: Ratners, The Dom, The Velvet Underground, through Avenue D Squats filled with teenage runaways, with countless wild events culminating in a back-stage encounter with Jim Morrisson. Every stop along the way bristles with Hunter's grace, clarity and a cinematic prose capturing memorable places and unique characters, not wasting a word. It swings through IRA-plagued London, encounters with wild boys and girls, including a commune of teenage witches, and back to NY to rub elbows with Warhol Superstars and glitter-eyed junky waitresses at Max's Kansas City in time to witness the death of Punk and the early heartbreak days the AIDS crisis. It's as if On the Road went international instead of domestic and spanned decades. The Absence of Angels leaves a radiant presence long after you turn the last page. --Arthur Nersesian, author of The Fuck-Up and The Five Books of (Robert) Moses Absence of Angels is a synesthetic expedition through late-20th-Century Manhattan. It's a love story between a city and its denizens. Every page is permeated with poetic frenzy, grace and verve. Hunter captures the magical decay of the 70s and 80s like few other writers have. I LOVE THIS BOOK. -Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Christian X. Hunter lets us ride shotgun to his life in the turbulent 1960's and 1970's. From the ringalevio streets of New York that blossomed into the psychedelic era to the dark side and back. Yeah, it's sex, drugs, cars, guitars, motorcycles and rock 'n' roll. He tells the tale that only the ones who lived it can tell. He remembers it all and he lived long enough to write it down and we get to not just read it but to experience it! Witness it! There are books I don't want to end and this is one of them! -Penny Arcade

The Absence of Angels

Hunter, Christian X.

Genre Fiction

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