Myth Shattering
Description:... A semi-autobiographical novel about a young punk rock kid in Wutherington Beach, Southern California. With his punk rock friends, he steals marijuana plants from his neighbor's backyards, smokes them in the group's underground club house, and shop lifts for munchies on a daily basis. However, on one summer afternoon, while trying to hide a large bag of marijuana in his apartment's garage, he discovers his dead father's revolutionary book collection. The things he reads in these books open his eyes wide to the nefarious history of the US government and the nefarious nature of their foreign and domestic policy. This awakening causes him to search for other like books, which further awaken him to the need for revolutionary change in his county.However, the more he learns, the more bewildered he becomes, and the more withdrawn he becomes from school and social life, until he is on the brink of total despair. What finally saves him are the books in his father's collection about religion and philosophy. One particular book, by a Japanese Buddhist philosopher named Ho Goku, entitled, "Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death" gives him courage and faith that a change in his society and the world is possible, but only through an inner spiritual revolution of each individual.In the back of this book by Ho Goku, he finds a name and number of an old friend and colleague of his dead father. Though the number is wrong, he eventually locates this man on the internet and he adopts him as his spiritual teacher. The more he learns from his teacher, the more empowered he becomes. Though change is slow, he first realizes before he can change the world, he first has to change his own life and his own actions.
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