Looking for my life
Das Prapujaka
Publicerad: 2016
Genre: Filosofi & Religion
Språk: engelska
Sidantal: 266
Format: 140x206 mm
Utförande: limbunden
ISBN: 978-91-639-2340-1
Beställningsadress:
Per Jäderstrand
prapujaka.acbsp@gmail.com
Elsa Birgers väg 10
Box 5031
Looking For My Life is a self-experienced openhearted story of a man’s intensive search for his true identity and place in life.
The writer portrays with moving lucidity his tough upbringing in the 50s and 60s, under a violent and abusive father, which left him with deep wounds and made him into a rebellious, yet fragile boy. During high school Per gets interested in social issues and he passionately engages himself in politics related to the extreme left wing.
After a few years studying at University and some Art schools, he starts to question the “conventional” traditional “way of life” and turns to existential literature for answers. Unhappy and disappointed with life he also experiments with various drugs for a period of time.
In the early 70s, Per comes across The Hippie Counter Culture Movement and is profoundly affected by its ideas. He becomes a vegetarian and absorbs himself fully in the study of Indian philosophy and religion.
Per’s strong fascination with Indian culture finally makes him embark on a journey alone to India in the summer of -73, travelling overland along "The Hippie Trail", in order to, as he writes in a farewell letter to his art-teacher, “Find a Guru who can give me knowledge of God and the soul”.
The book is a fascinating piece of history that gives us an insight into what it was like to grow up as a young boy in a tumultuous political time where radical leftist ideas were mixed with influences of the hippie culture.