Apple's spiritual beginnings: Steve Jobs' link to Neem Karoli Baba and Paramhansa Yogananda
As an 18-year-old backpacker in search of enlightenment, Steve Jobs set out for India in 1974 along with his friend and fellow dropout Dan Kottke who would become the first employee of Apple a few years later. When Jobs reached Neem Karoli Baba's ashram at Kainchi near Nainital, Baba had already passed away. And India wasn't what Jobs had imagined through his LSD haze.