Back when I was a kid in the 90’s I was a “paper boy” with a walking news paper delivery route and while working I would listen to the local rock station. A recurring commercial stuck with me until recently. The commercial was advertising a book called “Surfing the Himalayas” by Frederick Lenz. I think it stuck with me from childhood because the commercial pronounced the title, “surfing the him-AH-lee-ahs” .
I am reading it now after reading JMG for years. The story has a snowboarder bump into a Buddhist monk in the Himalayas. The monk, then proceeds to instruct the snowboarder about how Buddhism has come from the ancient Atlantean civilization, and that he is supposed to teach the snowboarder how to meditate, and then the snowboarder will in turn go on to teach millions in the west. The meditation technique opens up the practitioner to experience their previous lives memories, and that they of course are an immortal soul. All of these simple facts are presented quickly and directly. There’s nothing remarkably new in the book for me at this point, but it would’ve been all those years ago.
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Surfing the Himalayas
Date: 2023-04-10 10:17 pm (UTC)I am reading it now after reading JMG for years. The story has a snowboarder bump into a Buddhist monk in the Himalayas. The monk, then proceeds to instruct the snowboarder about how Buddhism has come from the ancient Atlantean civilization, and that he is supposed to teach the snowboarder how to meditate, and then the snowboarder will in turn go on to teach millions in the west. The meditation technique opens up the practitioner to experience their previous lives memories, and that they of course are an immortal soul. All of these simple facts are presented quickly and directly. There’s nothing remarkably new in the book for me at this point, but it would’ve been all those years ago.
Ever heard of it?