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::Imagine growing up with 200 mothers and 200 fathers. What would it feel like to dress entirely in orange? What would it be like to grow up in a commune with daily chants, meditation and muesli on the menu? Whout would it be like to swap your mother for a whole new orange family? | |||
:Tim | ::At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune in a small village in Suffolk. It was modeled on the teachings of the famous Indian "guru" Bhagwan, who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom. Both were given Sanskrit names, dressed entirely in orange, and encouraged to surrender themselves into their new family. | ||
: | ::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 and chanted in her quest for perfect freedom and perfect delight, Yogesh lived a life of unsupervised freedom, occasionally catching glimpses of the strange behaviour of the adults around him. In an extraordinary memoir, by turns deft, humorous and poignant, Tim Guest reclaims a lost moment of madness in the recent cultural history of the West. He chronicles the hilarious and heart-breakingh plight of being left alone on earth while his parents hunted heaven. | ||
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{{bookedition|My Life in Orange.jpg |Growing Up with the Guru|2005|Mariner Books| | {{bookedition|My Life in Orange (2004) - Cover front.jpg| |2004|Granta Books|1|978-1-86207-632-7|302|P| First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2004. Copyright © by Tim Guest 2004. }} | ||
{{bookedition|My Life in Orange.jpg |Growing Up with the Guru|2005|Mariner Books| |015603106X|320|P| }} | |||
{{bookedition|My Life in Orange02.jpg |Growing Up with the Guru<br> | {{bookedition|My Life in Orange02.jpg |Growing Up with the Guru<br> | ||
:''' "The extraordinary story of a childhood in the | :''' "The extraordinary story of a childhood in the Rajneeshi movement -''' | ||
:'''as shown in Netflix's WILD WILD COUNTRY" ''' | :'''as shown in Netflix's WILD WILD COUNTRY" ''' | ||
|2018|Profile Books Ltd|1| 9781788162098 |320|P| Reprint }} | |2018|Profile Books Ltd|1| 9781788162098 |320|P| Reprint }} | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:16, 18 May 2024
- Edition 2004 backcover:
- Imagine growing up with 200 mothers and 200 fathers. What would it feel like to dress entirely in orange? What would it be like to grow up in a commune with daily chants, meditation and muesli on the menu? Whout would it be like to swap your mother for a whole new orange family?
- At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune in a small village in Suffolk. It was modeled on the teachings of the famous Indian "guru" Bhagwan, who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom. Both were given Sanskrit names, dressed entirely in orange, and encouraged to surrender themselves into their new family.
- 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 and chanted in her quest for perfect freedom and perfect delight, Yogesh lived a life of unsupervised freedom, occasionally catching glimpses of the strange behaviour of the adults around him. In an extraordinary memoir, by turns deft, humorous and poignant, Tim Guest reclaims a lost moment of madness in the recent cultural history of the West. He chronicles the hilarious and heart-breakingh plight of being left alone on earth while his parents hunted heaven.
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