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January 28, 1984 Dear Lucy, Well I have been here 32 [[cut off]] feel it is 3 years. Went directly [[cut off]] planes and flew to Bangalore where [[cut off]] for the small dessert town of Rultapa [[cut off]] Biblical trip through towns where [[?]] [[cut off]] goats, cows, chickens on the road with [[cut off]] farms. In Bangalore I had several Run [[cut off]] not stand out so much - western clothes. [[cut off]] size of 5th Ave to 8th Ave (14 St to 8th Street) with an [[cut off]] I guess is a better word, Sai Baba who is considered here [[cut off]] Since we do not have the concept, I really don't quite know bad [[cut off]] He is able to know what one is thinking at all times, cures insta [[cut off]] he chases, materializes objects- this is all the simple stuff [[cut off]] because when one is there on the ashraam one goes through a kind of [[cut off]] inner dialogue that is like a kind of intent psychotherapy. He's qu [[cut off]] difficult to explain. One gets up at 4 am and goes to bed about 9 pm. It was quite an experience. One lives very simply - sleeping bag on concrete - coed baths but fairly good, clean food. I got sick at first because [[?]] is different but otherwise I've been eating like a pig. After [[?]] I went with a friend or [[??]]ed say a group of friends to Madras by train - that was an experience it itself - In Madras because my friend did not have much money, we stayed in a very, very crumby hotel with LOTS of wildlife. I think I needed a cast iron stomach just to use the bathroom.. countless roaches and lizard - plus the heat. Eating became problematical because one could not trust the cleanliness of the kitchen - such dirty surroundings. The biggest hassles though had to do with people constantly trying to beat, I guess, because they see westerners as so wasteful...plus they have segregated buses (women on one side & men on the other)... men are not supposed to touch a woman not = the family. If I need to ask a question I need to ask a woman not a man. Yet it is not nearly as repressive as Japan. The men are very much involved with their families which is quite the opposite of Japan where the women are usually alone in the home and the men only come home to sleep occasionally depending on how traditional they are. My mind has been a bit turned around by it all - I [[?]] all the changes, as I [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] now see things from a different perspective. Feel differently about my friend in ny[[?]] in the [[?]]ee that I feel a bit more [[?]]tered and less lively to be pulled off my track. Hopefully he will be less dependent on me when I get back but will he able to be loving without holding me hostage, so to speak. I needed this distance to think clearly and I'm sure he needed to get through the d[[?]] procedure without my po[[?]]ee. I feel much more detached about it. I don't think I'll be drawn into his m[[?]]ods so easily. My primary concern when I return is getting a new studio so I can work when I get back and not be trapped in that appartment. If you hear of anything let him know as I've given him the power of attorney to sign a lease for me (Roy Mallo 674-5153). I'll pay up to 700 pr month for a commercial studio space - id prefer to have the option to live there if it became necessary. I'd like about 1500-2000 sq ft, - 2 or 3 year lease in Soho, Broadway - walking distance from
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