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Paradise Fever: Growing Up in the Shadow of the New Age
Paradise Fever Growing Up in the Shadow of the New Age Author:Ptolemy Tompkins What happens when a 12-year-old boy is granted the kind of freedoms his schoolmates can only dream of? When his home becomes a way station for a surreal assortment of orgiasts, Yeti-hunters, space ship communicants, and free-form visionaries intent on hurrying the dawn of the New Age? When his fathers obsession with rediscovering paradise threat... more »ens to tear his family apart? By turns riotously funny and heartbreaking sad, PARADISE FEVER tells the story of one mans hazardous journey from childhood to manhood in an outlandish utopian household of his fathers creationPtolemy Tompkins is the son of Peter Tompkins, author of the cult bestseller The Secret Life of Plants, and one of the most colorful and influential avatars of the New Age. A former World War II spy, Peter Tompkins is an intrepid investigator of all things occult and miraculous, from pyramid magic to alien interventions. His is an elemental gospel: that our frayed and tired world can be transformed--with a little psychic plumbing--into a new Eden. Using as his laboratory a huge, unfinished barn in Virginia(not to mention rambling outposts in New Hampshire, Miami, and Italy), Peter Tompkins embarks on a heroic quest to uncover the secrets embarks on a heroic quest to uncover the secrets that he is certain lie--like the lost continent of Atlantis--just beneath the surface of this world.« less