Going to Asia in 1985 and 1986 was basically at that time like going to another planet

People who are California New Agers or California Cosmics have no idea usually (unless they have traveled places like India and Nepal how different things are in so many ways there than in the U.S.

So, even trying to talk to people who haven't been over there to see how different things are isn't really that useful usually.

Because at least in 1985 and 1986 it was like going to a completely different planet with completely different rules that you had to learn. So, you had to study all the time wherever you were so you weren't going to offend someone and accidentally get yourself or your family killed by being impolite to people in that area of the world.

However, being a family we were usually treated much better than single Americans or Westerners because we were thought to be a stable family (which we were) as my wife and I were both 37 at the time of our travels. Our children were 10, 12, and 14 at the time and this changed them all a lot both then and afterwards. They all became world travelers as adults. And even my youngest two daughters who were born 3 years and about 10 years after this 4 months in Asia are also world travelers too. 

Traveling to foreign countries (as long as you can survive the food and water and situations) can expand your horizons on how you see everything in your lives.

However, unless you are very adaptable attempting something like my wife and family did could also be fatal for one or more members of your family. Both my sons were almost kidnapped and saved by Tibetan Boys around 14 or 15 years old to protected them by drawing their knives on those who had drawn a gun to kidnap my sons. I wasn't there at the time. Another time my 12 year old daughter was so scared of White Rhinos stomping her to death that she ran up a tree and got too high on too small of branches and fell head first 35 feet and I thought I would have to break my back catching her when this happened. Luckily two branches caught her hips as she fell head first to the ground so all I had to do was to keep her head from banging against the tree truck. Also the 10 year old and the 12 year old daughter got sick starting in New Deli and we had to find a Tibetan doctor called Lady Dolma in Dharamshala to heal them. She gave them what looked like rabbit pellets out of a glass jar which cured them both of Deli Belly which is sort of like Montezuma's revenge from Mexico and points south of the U.S. 

I'm sharing this because I likely wouldn't do this now because I would see it as just too dangerous to repeat. However, at the time I believed God was sending us there on a mission so I was just in God's Flow and knew somehow everyone would survive this a better and more evolved person which we did.

By God's Grace