A Nation of Mystics: Book One: Intentions - Couverture souple

Johnson, Pamela

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0996853901 ISBN 13 : 9780996853903

Editeur : Stone Harbour Press, 2015

Synopsis

In A Nation of Mystics, author Pamela Johnson A deftly explores the youth subculture in San Francisco and Berkeley in the mid-1960s, with all its initial goodwill and naiveté—its dedication to free speech, promise to end war, commitment to racial equality, new art and music, and the exploration of spirituality based on mind-expanding hallucinogens.

In this epic story of intimacy, metaphysical exploration, and coming of age, the Haight-Ashbury becomes home to genuine and unforgettable characters: Christian Brooks, haunted by a fiery riot in India, leaves the ministry for a new path to God. Kathleen Murray arrives seeking to change the world and exchanges picket lines for a more direct method of altering consciousness. Brilliant young botany student Myles Corbet must choose between prison and betraying his oldest friend. Jerry Putnam, seeking knowledge through science, instead discovers the shamanic calling. Opposing them is drug agent Dolph Bremer, who vows to crush the counterculture movement through any means necessary, while attorney Lance Bormann care- fully walks between worlds to defend his young clients.

Book I, Intentions, is the story of the communal family’s grow- ing commitment to the creation of a new culture—to social action, expanded awareness, new insights into the nature of mind, and the courage to make change.

Although set in the 1960s, A Nation of Mystics is strikingly relevant, addressing conflicts between political idealism and the old order, violent police overreach, and the beginning of America’s War on Drugs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pamela Johnson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and migrated to Berkeley, California, in 1966. a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Berkeley in anthropology, she went on to earn master’s degrees in education at Mills College and in english at Holy Names University, both schools in oakland. a former teacher and university professor, she is actively involved in social and environmental issues and views her writing as an extension of her politics. she is married and currently divides her time between a ranch in the sierra foothills of California and Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Look for her next book in A Nation of Mystics, Book Two: The Tribe, to be released through Stone Harbour Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stone Harbour Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996853901
• ISBN 13: 9780996853903
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 370
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible