Prince Charles and the Art of Transformation

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Prince Charles and the Art of Transformation: Memoir of an Urban Mystic is one man’s journey through darkness to redemption. The author embarks on a literal train journey home to California from Massachusetts where he has spent nine days on a meditation retreat, hoping to reconcile within himself a difficult relationship with his seriously ill father. Charles alone, out of six siblings, is in the unique position to now live with and care for this man with whom he had the most challenging relationship of his life. On his trip back to begin life with his father, we are privy to his memories from boyhood where he was subjected to the dark unpredictable moods of a violent man buffered only by the moral center of this story: his mother. The author also feels the need to understand the supernatural phenomena he has experienced from childhood on. He attributes his sensitivity to being born on Halloween when the veil between the physical world and the non-material world of the spirit is especially thin. Charles is clever and a gifted artist, but time and again his wits and ingenuity take him down many dark roads. Finally, prompted by the spiritual insights culled from the practice of meditation he begins to embrace positive change and slowly releases his rebellion against a father he has learned to distrust and dislike. In his sacrifice of resentment, his perspective changes on his father and it is a transforming experience for himself.

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