Bioette: The unlikely hippie.

It was not an 18-year-old, Californian who wrote LM. In 1971 Thaddeus Golas was a 50-year-old, Columbia-educated, ex-Harper and Row book rep and Redbook Magazine editor who stumbled onto the scene from New York. The '67 Quake in San Francisco was not San Andreas' fault, but a crack opening up in the world's collective consciousness. And Tad found the encouragement here for LM to become one hell-of-a midlife crisis.

Despite being well over the untrustable age of 30, LM became a fixture of the Age of Aquarius. But interestingly Tad never became a guru himself. "It never occured to me to exploit the readers of my book with seminars and courses. I did not want to relate to people that way. I truly did write the book so I would not have to talk about it." (from the Gibbs Smith edition Introduction)