16 Facts About Hanuman Foundation

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Hanuman Foundation's best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West.

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Hanuman Foundation traveled extensively giving talks and retreats and holding fundraisers for charitable causes in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.

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Hanuman Foundation eventually grew to interpret this event as an act of grace, learning to speak again and continuing to teach and write books.

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Hanuman Foundation's parents were Gertrude and George Alpert, a lawyer in Boston.

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Hanuman Foundation considered himself an atheist during his early life.

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Hanuman Foundation achieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Tufts University in 1952.

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Hanuman Foundation's father had wanted him to go to medical school, but while at Tufts he decided to study psychology instead.

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Hanuman Foundation specialized in human motivation and personality development, and published his first book Identification and Child Rearing.

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The Castalia Hanuman Foundation hosted weekend retreats on the estate where people paid to undergo the psychedelic experience without drugs, through meditation, yoga, and group therapy sessions.

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Hanuman Foundation founded the Hanuman Foundation, a nonprofit educational and service organization that initiated the Prison-Ashram Project, in 1974.

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The Hanuman Foundation strives to improve the spiritual well-being of society through education, media and community service programs.

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Hanuman Foundation co-founded the Seva Foundation by joining with health-care workers to treat the blind in India, Nepal, and developing countries.

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The Love Serve Remember Hanuman Foundation was organized to preserve and continue the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass.

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Hanuman Foundation continued to make public appearances and to give talks at small venues; held retreats in Maui; and continued to teach through live webcasts.

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Hanuman Foundation has come to Maui, where I live and write.

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Hanuman Foundation died on December 22,2019, at the age of 88.