Really, tibetan buddhism with its occult magic and alien gods and goddesses (boddhissatva) provided me with an avenue for my imagination so fertile as a kid. I bought my first tantric book of tibet at 9 years old. I read a bit of it . It was by Alexandra Neel, the explorer of the 19oos. Dad said, without having read at all about tibet, that this was very hard studies. I figured, by his tone and innocence of tibet, that this was very serious what he had just said. I looked at tibet way later again. After first having explored taoism, Chuang Tsu, tai chi and lao tsu at 21. At 27, I went to India.