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Astonishing things happen whenever we harness the power of both the brain and the center. Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, coping with an alcoholic dad and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by way of a stroke. Today he is the director of the guts for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford School, which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But in the past his life was at a useless end - until at age 12, when he wandered into a magic shop searching for a plastic thumb. There he attained Ruth, a female who trained him a series of exercises to ease his own anguish and express his greatest desires. Her last mandate was that he keep his center open and train these ways to others. Ruth gave Doty his first glance of the unique relationship between the brain and the center. Doty would go on to place Ruth's ways to work, bringing electricity and wealth that he could only visualize as a 12-year-old. But he neglected Ruth's most significant lessons, to keep his center open, with disastrous results - until he previously the possibility to make a spectacular charitable contribution that would virtually spoil him. Part memoir, part research, part inspiration, and part functional training, Into the Magic Shop shows us how exactly we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.
