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By: Nov. 05, 2013
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Minneapolis, MN, November 5, 2013 - In many ways, the practice of Eastern meditation meets its antithesis in traditional American culture. That's why early readers find Go Deep and Take Plenty of Root: A Prairie-Norwegian Father, Rebellion in Minneapolis, Basement Zen, Growing Old, Growing Tender by Erik Storlie such a gripping experience.

Storlie tells his story of the rebellion in the sixties that led to widespread meditation practice in America. Here we experience the underground Beat scene in Minneapolis that inspired the early Bob Dylan. We meet the poets Robert Bly and James Wright. Finally, we share the author's struggle to transmute psychedelic explorations into Zen and mindfulness - and to become a loving son, father, and husband.

"Cultivation of the human mind and body in the quiet, open awareness of meditation is deeply satisfying," says author Erik Storlie. "We touch the strange wonder of this existing universe and the moment by moment arising of our human consciousness. We can practice this whether we are famous or obscure or something in between. And we can bring that satisfaction into our everyday lives of work, friends, and family."

Critics have called Storlie's most recent book "a treasure." Pagan Kennedy, author of The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories, comments: "In Erik Storlie's remarkable memoir, he takes us on a mad tour of Secret Minnesota-and this is not Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon. I loved discovering Storlie's Midwestern beatnik paradise, a place where Bob Dylan and the poet James Wright might show up at the next party. Storlie was one of the original Minneapolis mystics; he searched for the ecstatic, the illegal, and the unspeakable in the bars of Dinkytown. What he found will delight the reader." And from Chard deNiord, author of Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Reflections and Conversations with Twentieth Century American Poets, who says: "Reads like a novel...with a sprezzatura comparable to On the Road...fresh, firsthand accounts of Storlie's turbulent, romantic, experimental, literary days...an essential witness to both hurt and ecstasy out of which so much genius emerged..."

Erik Storlie's first memoir, Nothing on My Mind: Berkeley, LSD, Two Zen Masters (Shambhala 1996), describes the upsurge of interest in psychedelics and Zen in San Francisco, his struggle to integrate the psychedelic experience with meditation, and his study and practice with Shunryu Suzuki and Dainin Katagiri Roshis. He completed a PhD in American Studies and taught for thirty-five years at an inner-city college in Minneapolis. He now teaches meditation and mindfulness and leads retreats for the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.

For more information, please visit the website: http://www.beginnerzen.com.

Go Deep and Take Plenty of Root: A Prairie-Norwegian Father, Rebellion in Minneapolis,
Basement Zen, Growing Old, Growing Tender
Available at http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Take-Plenty-Root-PrairieNorwegian/dp/1482695987
$11.23
ISBN-13: 978-1482695984



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