My Life in Orange (eBook)

Growing Up with the Guru

Guest Tim Guest (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-529-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1981 Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune in a small village in Suffolk. It was modelled on the teachings of the famous Indian "e;guru"e;, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy and sexual freedom. Both were given Sanskrit names, dressed entirely in orange and instructed to completely abandon their former identities. Tim - or Yogesh, as he was now known - spent the rest of his childhood in Bhagwan's various communes in England, Oregon, Pune and Cologne. While his mother meditated, chanted and ran therapy groups, Yogesh lived a life of unsupervised freedom, occasionally catching glimpses of the strange behaviour of the adults around him. In 1985 the movement collapsed after Bhagwan's arrest and Yogesh was once again Tim, about to start life at a secondary school in North London, alone with the secret of his extraordinary childhood. In his first book, now in a new edition, Guest describes the other-worldly experience of growing up in an environment of unsupervised freedom and often disturbing adult behaviour.

Rezensionen

Funny, gently ironic, closely observed, poignant and moving. Guest makes an astonishingly mature debut

A book to make you thankful for your boring childhood

A sweet book...[creating] a shocking but affectionate image of the Orange people

Guest writes both touchingly and evocatively...an intriguing read

A must-read, an extraordinary, harrowing, sometimes hilarious account

Hilarious and heartbreaking, it says much for the human spirit...a beautiful written account

Tim's Guest extraordinary account of his childhood is a survivor's tale, poignant, funny and wise

Guest's story seems to encapsulate the essential weirdness, not only of his childhood, but also of the period...compelling and poignant

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.7.2018
• Zusatzinfo: b/w integrated
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh • Cults • Ma Anand Sheela, wasco county • netflix hit show • orange people • oshoites • Rajneesh • Sannyasin • Sects • Wild wild country
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-529-6 / 1782835296
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-529-5 / 9781782835295