To the Best of Our Knowledge

PROMO       11/11/2007   "East Meets West: Dharma Days, Yoga
                         Nights"
*There are zendos in Indiana and ashrams in Vermont.  Wall Street
traders practice the downward dog and soccer moms study the dharma.  In
this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge a look at how Eastern
religions have changed America, and how America is changing them.

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Dharma Days, Yoga Nights"

0:00 - 24:24        SEGMENT 1: (24:25)
            Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love"tells Steve
            Paulson it was an early mid-life crisis (including a
            messy divorce) that brought her to India to follow in the
            footsteps of generations of spiritual seekers from the
            West. Also, Bob Spitz writes about the Beatles time in
            India with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his book "The
            Beatles: The Biography."  Spitz tells Anne Strainchamps
            that the ashram was a blissful environment for the
            Beatles and changed their music and our popular culture
            forever.  
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

24:25 - 24:54  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

24:55 - 42:18       SEGMENT 2: (17:25)
            Jim Fleming reports how a new generation of American
            Buddhist teachers are adapting the Buddha's two thousand
            year old message for 21st century American audiences. We
            hear from Lama Surya Das, born Jeffrey Miller in New
            York; Sharon Salzberg; Buddhist psychotherapist Tara
            Brach and Jon Kabat-Zinn.
            
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

42:19 - 42:48       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

42:49 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (10:11)
            Robert Bly has re-translated some of the work of a
            fifteenth century poet-saint from India named Kabir.  Bly
            tells Steve Paulson that Kabir often writes about the
            soul's longing for the divine.  And we hear examples of
            the poetry.
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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