Excerpt: Everything is Happening at Once
Smart, funny and bracing, this memoir hurls you into an unlikely journey. It reads like fiction, and it’s packed with in-your-brain, in-your-heart stepping stones to a richer, larger life.
Marcus ushers you inside a semi-secret New Age group called The Work, where he serves as right-hand man to the charismatic leader. Outrageous, kinetic, pan-sexual, and brilliant Jan Cox based his teachings on the mystic, G.I.Gurdjieff. Habit-busting, revelatory “Tasks” couple with both meditation and crazy bacchanalian celebrations to facilitate mind expansion and radical insight. And the conflicted Cox spawns shock and consternation as well.
Marcus’ story vivifies the tribal bonds, intellectual rigor and spiritual yearning that unite talented, ambitious people living productive lives. Artfully woven into the narrative are Marcus’ imagined conversations with his wise Jewish immigrant grandfather, which anchor the story with sober counterpoint to the wild and overarching experiences in the Atlanta-based group.
This is an utterly fresh take on the endeavor conscious people pursue in many forms: the age-old desire to transform their lives, challenge the status quo, and the positive effects such personal growth ultimately confers on society.
Read it, and you join a private theosophical society funneling new comprehension of the chaos and wonder of ordinary life, with humor and gratitude. Read it, and you will probably wish you were there, at least some of the time.
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