Doug and Shankar Jr. Letters: Guinness Book of World Records Note

The above letter is Doug’s attempt to get Shankar Jr. into the Guinness Book of World Records. While I’m not sure of the outcome, the letter speaks volumes to Doug’s admiration and kindness to his young protege. That, in and of itself, is a world record! For more backstory on how Doug met the young…

Doug and Shankar Jr. Letters: Part One

Over the next couple days I’m going to share with you some letters sent to me by magician Shankar Jr. In a previous post, I detailed how at a young age, Shankar  befriended and was mentored by Doug in India.  Eventually, Doug became more immersed in TM and the mentorship came to an end. However,…

Doug and Shankar Junior

I recently had the pleasure of corresponding with magician Shankar Junior from India. He related to me an endearing story of meeting Doug as child. At the time Doug was studying Transcendental Meditation and…well, I’ll let Shankar tell it as he told me.   I met Doug Henning in the late 80’s when he came…