The Recovering Materialist From a Nordic Hardcore Punk to a Hindu Monk in California |
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| Author:
| Mäkinen, Tuomas |
| Illustrator:
| Mäkinen, Tuomas |
| Drawings by:
| Mäkinen, Tuomas |
| Epilogue by:
| Mäkinen, Tuomas |
| Memoir by:
| Mäkinen, Tuomas |
| Original Author:
| Mäkinen, Tuomas |
| Prologue by:
| Mäkinen, Tuomas |
| ISBN: | 979-8-9880439-1-1 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2023 |
| Publisher: | Opium of the Masses
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| Book Format: | Digital online |
| List Price: | USD $4.99 |
Book Description:
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"How much are you willing to sacrifice for your dreams?"At 25, Tuomas comes up with his answer: everything. Stuffing his life into a single orange suitcase, he moves across the globe to a Hindu monastery deep in the redwood forests of Northern California. He expects to finally find the tranquility, truth, and harmony he has always yearned for, but instead comes face-to-face with his darkest shadows.As it turns out, ashrams are a lot less "Kumbaya" and a lot more like rehab centers. The...
More Description"How much are you willing to sacrifice for your dreams?"At 25, Tuomas comes up with his answer: everything. Stuffing his life into a single orange suitcase, he moves across the globe to a Hindu monastery deep in the redwood forests of Northern California. He expects to finally find the tranquility, truth, and harmony he has always yearned for, but instead comes face-to-face with his darkest shadows.As it turns out, ashrams are a lot less "Kumbaya" and a lot more like rehab centers. The greatest battle of Tuomas' life begins, and there's no knowing whether he will land on his feet or his head."The Recovering Materialist" offers a candid, raw, and at times sidesplitting portrait of the hardships and victories of a life dedicated to spiritual enlightenment. In lean and inventive prose, Mäkinen takes the reader on a rollercoaster from his alienated years of hardcore punk and societal underperformance, through his relationship dysfunctions and family drama, to crying alone in a dark yurt and barely averting a fist fight with a fellow monastic, all the way to tentative contentment through building a temple. There is no middle ground in this memoir. The story is in constant movement between the depths of darkest despair and the heights of spiritual ecstasy. Get ready!