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Into the Magic Shop

James R. Doty, M.D., a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford, is joined by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Salzberg for a conversation about his new memoir of growing up in California with an alcoholic father and a chronically depressed mother.

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Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart.











When: Wed., Mar. 2, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: BookCourt
163 Court St., Brooklyn

Price: Free
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James R. Doty, M.D., a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford, is joined by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Salzberg for a conversation about his new memoir of growing up in California with an alcoholic father and a chronically depressed mother.

About Into the Magic Shop:

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart.

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