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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's True Story of the Life-Changing Magic of Compassion and Mindfulness Condition:Like New and wondrously strange first novelGrowing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today, he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until, at twelve, he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. There he met