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Working Class Mystic
Friday, August 26th, 2011
John Lennon called himself a working class hero. George Harrison was a working class mystic. This book gives an honest, in-depth view of Harrison’s journey from a blue-collar childhood to his role as a world-famous spiritual icon. It was with conscious commitment that Harrison journeyed to India, studied sitar with Ravi Shankar, practiced yoga, learned meditation from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and became a devotee of Hinduism. George worked hard to subdue his own ego and to understand the truth beyond appearances. He preferred to keep a low profile, but his empathy for suffering people led him to spearhead the first rock-and-roll super event for charity. And despite his wealth and fame, he was always delighted to slip on overalls and join in manual labor on his grounds. At ease with holy men discussing the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, he was ever the bloke from Liverpool whose father drove a bus, whose brothers were tradesmen, and who had worked himself as an apprentice electrician until the day destiny called.
Title: Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison
Author: Gary Tillery is a 1973 Thunderbird graduate. He is also the author of The Cynical Idealist—a study of John Lennon—and three works of fiction: “Darkling Plain,” “Death, Be Not Loud,” and “To an Aesthete Dying Young.”
Publisher: Quest Books (November 15, 2011)
Price: $15.95
Description: Paperback, 200 pages
ISBN: 978-0835609005
Information: www.amazon.com
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