Much more than the mystical elements which fascinate and draw so many Westerners here, Hinduism is concerned with the basics of everyday  birth, work, health, relationships, and death, all of this helped along by regular consultations with a local astrologer.
Many Westerners are drawn here because of the mystical elements of Hinduism that intrigue them.
Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular  Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theory killed all these people.