My Father's Guru - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Father's Guru write by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. This book was released on 1993. My Father's Guru available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Masson has written the astonishing "prequel" to his autobiographical last book, Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst. Masson tells of the guru Paul Brunton, who lived with Masson's family as he was growing up and who profoundly influenced Masson with claims to enormous spiritual power.
My Father's Guru
My Father's Guru - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Father's Guru write by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. This book was released on 2024-04. My Father's Guru available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a child growing up in the Hollywood Hills during the 1950s, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson thought it was perfectly normal that a guru named Paul Brunton lived with his family and dictated everything about their daily rituals, from their diet to their travel plans to his parents' sex life. But in this extraordinary memoir, Masson reflects on just how bizarre everything about his childhood was-especially the relationship between his father and the elusive, eminent mystic he revered (and supported) for years. Writing with candor and charm, Masson describes how his father became convinced that Paul Brunton-P.B. to his familiars-was a living God who would fill his life with enlightenment and wonder. As the Masson family's personal guru, Brunton freely discussed his life on other planets, laid down strict rules on fasting and meditation, and warned them all of the imminence of World War III. For years, young Jeffrey was as ardent a disciple as his father-but with the onset of adolescence, he staged a dramatic revolt against this domestic deity and everything he stood for. Filled with absurdist humor and intimate confessions, My Father's Guru is the spellbinding coming-of-age story of one of our most brilliant writers.
My Father's Guru
My Father's Guru - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Father's Guru write by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. This book was released on 2013-03-19. My Father's Guru available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a child growing up in the Hollywood Hills during the 1950s, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson thought it was perfectly normal that a guru named Paul Brunton lived with his family and dictated everything about their daily rituals, from their diet to their travel plans to his parents' sex life. But in this extraordinary memoir, Masson reflects on just how bizarre everything about his childhood was-especially the relationship between his father and the elusive, eminent mystic he revered (and supported) for years. Writing with candor and charm, Masson describes how his father became convinced that Paul Brunton-P.B. to his familiars-was a living God who would fill his life with enlightenment and wonder. As the Masson family's personal guru, Brunton freely discussed his life on other planets, laid down strict rules on fasting and meditation, and warned them all of the imminence of World War III. For years, young Jeffrey was as ardent a disciple as his father-but with the onset of adolescence, he staged a dramatic revolt against this domestic deity and everything he stood for. Filled with absurdist humor and intimate confessions, My Father's Guru is the spellbinding coming-of-age story of one of our most brilliant writers. REVIEWS "An uncompromising yet compassionate book . . . A coming-of-age memoir unlike any other." -The Toronto Star "AN EXTRAORDINARY CAUTIONARY TALE .... about the enduring human impulse to imbue charismatic individuals with superhuman attributes." -San Francisco Chronicle "Told with a mixture of humor and compassion. . . . Throughout this confessional book a grown man tells of an unusual, even weird childhood and the blind submission that consumed his family's life." -ROBERT COLES The New York Times Book Review "My Father's Guru is an interesting account of a warped upbringing made fascinating by the insight it provides into Masson's adult life. He makes no excuses: in initially revering Freud and other authority figures, Masson realizes he was seeking new and better gurus that Brunton-and was fated to reject them pitilessly when they showed themselves, like Brunton, to be merely human." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "Beneath the guru-bashing, the book is Masson's poignant and loving indictment of his parents, worth reading for his psychological portrait of coming-of-age disillusionment." -Seattle Weekly
My Father's Guru
My Father's Guru - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Father's Guru write by Jeffrey Masson. This book was released on 1993. My Father's Guru available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Give Me My Father's Body
Give Me My Father's Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Give Me My Father's Body write by Kenn Harper. This book was released on 2001-02-27. Give Me My Father's Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A searing, true tale of extraordinary darkness, Harper's critically acclaimed history is an absorbing and poignant portrait of the short, strange, and tragic life of the boy known as the New York Eskimo. Two 16-page photo inserts and one 8-page insert.
