Graboi Nina

Austrian Holocaust survivor, artist, writer, spiritual seeker, philosopher, and influential figure in the sixties psychedelic movement. After fleeing the Nazis in Europe and spending three months in a detention camp in North Africa, she and her husband came to America as refugees. As a close friend and colleague of Timothy Learys and Richard Alperts (Ram Dass), she was co-founder and director of the League for Spiritual Discoverys New York Center during the psychedelic era. The center was the first LSD-based meditation center in Manhattan. She also worked closely with Jean Houston, Abraham Maslow, Stanley Krippner, and Alan Watts. Nina Graboi was married to Michel Graboi from 1940 to 1966; they had two children. She wrote her autobiography, One Foot in the Future, in 1991. She died on 13 December 1999 at age 81 from lung cancer in Santa Cruz, California. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less