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At the age of six, Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune modeled on the teachings of the notorious Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The Bhagwan preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy, and sexual freedom, and enjoyed inhaling laughing gas, preaching from... read more
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“"If you are going to give birth to a child,before you give birth to the child,you must give birth to your being a mother. Otherwise who is who is going to take care of the child? You maybe able to nurse the child but that is not the point of being a mother." Page 31”
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“A fish swims around looking for the sea. He asks all the other sea creatures: what is the sea? They all shake their heads. no one knows. One day the fish is flipped by a big wave, out of the water and onto a desert island. He struggles and flips on the sand, drying out, until, when he is on the verge of death, a wave comes up and flips him back into the sea. As he swims away he thinks: Ah. This is the sea.”
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“'What comes before the mirror is the mother's face. So when one looks in one's mother's face, one sees oneself.' To be seen and to be held by the mother are the defining events of childhood - our mother's embrace confirms we exist, and the adoring mirror of her eyes confirms who we are. My mother embraced Bhagwan, and she embraced Sujan, but she went against her instincts and let me run free. In those years, to the extent that my mother was looking into the eyes of others - Bhagwan, Sujan, troubled sannyasins, herself - she also lost sight of me.”
Tim Guest pg 298
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I have photographs of my mother leading a commune parade down Fleet Street.
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- Dewey: 299.93
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