Jim Lowrey was an early student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who, with the rest of his Pygmy hippie family, went to Trungpa Rinpoche’s first public talk in Colorado in 1970 and connected with him immediately. As part of the early baby boom generation, Jim considers himself “emblematic of the sixties generation of war protesters, college dropouts, and hippies, who matured as the American born-again organic, locally grown, free-run middle class.”