i got my phd. in vienna, and then moved to paris. And was in paris in may 68 during the memorable student revolt. So this is where my political sensitivity was radicalized. Then i moved to california to teach and do research at the university of california. There i embraced the whole counterculture. I read books about eastern mysticism. I practised meditation,. All the while also working as a physicist at the university  ofcalifornia. The sixties involved an expansion consciousness in two directions. In the direction of e the spiritual dimension, what psychologists at the time began to call transpersonal consciousness., and in the direction of social