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The Secret of the Mantras (Paperback)
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The Secret of the Mantras (Paperback)
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Loot Price R461
Discovery Miles 4 610
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Fleeing the country in its headlong rush to war in Vietnam, a young
American drops out of school and goes to Paris to write. After a
year and a half, he realizes that if you have to work to live
there, Paris is a lot like any other city, except that it's full of
Americans who came there to write. One night he and a friend go to
the Paris Hilton to attend a lecture on a "great new movement that
is sweeping the world." A month later the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
invites him to India to attend a three-month teacher-training
course on Transcendental Meditation. Based on journals Blakely kept
at the time, the second half of this book is an eye-witness account
of that gathering on the banks of the Ganges in the spring of 1968,
which Blakely describes as "a lot like Woodstock but without all
the people and the noise, and lasting a lot longer." While this
book is primarily a personal journey, coming to terms with a
crucial period in the author's life, it also provides a close-up
portrait of the Maharishi, from someone who caught a glimpse of the
wizard behind the curtain. In addition, it contains vignettes of
other people who also happened to attend that course in
Rishikesh---including George Harrison, John Lennon, Mia Farrow, and
Mike Love---that readers will find entertaining and informative.
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