{"product_id":"golf-in-the-kingdom-paperback","title":"Golf in the Kingdom - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"...for golf's soul surfers, \u003ci\u003eGolf in the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e is holy scripture.\" --\u003ci\u003e Golf \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spiritual journey, a lush travelogue, a parable of sports and philosophy--John Updike called this unique novel \"a golf classic if any exists in our day.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow for the 50th anniversary, a beautiful new design and an introduction from Michael Murphy himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaired with a mysterious teacher named Shivas Irons, Michael Murphy is led through a round of phenomenal golf, swept into a world where extraordinary powers are unleashed in a backswing governed by \"true gravity.\" A night of adventure and revelation follows, and leads to a glimpse of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts a ravine off Burningbush's thirteenth fairway--the one they call Lucifer's Rug. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A masterpiece on the mysticism of golf.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A fascination . . . \u003ci\u003eGolf in the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e should have a long and prosperous life.\" --Joseph Campbell\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a young man en route to India stops in Scotland to play at the legendary Burningbush golf club, his life is transformed. Paired with a mysterious teacher named Shivas Irons, he is led through a round of phenomenal golf, swept into a world where extraordinary powers are unleashed in a backswing governed by \"true gravity\". A night of adventure and revelation follows, and leads to a glimpse of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts a ravine off Burningbush's thirteenth fairway - the one they call Lucifer's Rug.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Murphy began his quest into the nature of human potential in the late 1950s while a psychology major at Stanford University. After a year of graduate school, he spent 18 months in India, at the ashram of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. Aurobindo started him thinking about the relationship between the evolution of consciousness and the physical body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1961, shortly after his return to the United States, Murphy met Richard Price, another Standford Psychology major, and in 1962 they founded the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. The Esalen Institute, the leading growth center in the world, has hosted thousands of human potential workshops and conferences led by such notables as Abraham Maslow, Joseph Campbell, Rollo May, Fritz Perls, Aldous Huxley, Carl Rogers, Ida Rolf, Joan Halifax, Stanislov Grof, Joan Borysenko, Allen Ginsberg, and Linus Pauling, to name a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1980, he helped create the Esalen Institute's Soviet American Exchange program which, among other things, initiated the first live television space bridges and hosted Boris Yeltsin during his first visit to the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Murphy is the author of \u003cb\u003eThe Future of the Body, Golf in the Kingdom\u003c\/b\u003e (released by Penguin Books\/Arkana), \u003cb\u003eJacob Atabet\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eEnd to Ordinary History\u003c\/b\u003e, and co-author of \u003cb\u003eThe Psychic Side of Sports\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eGolf in the Kingdom\u003c\/b\u003e has been translated into more than two dozen languages and sold well over a million copies. He lives in San Rafael, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 7.78 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753690923296,"sku":"9780140195491","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9c6ee059ee114cb5eb60ebc8f30158b9.webp?v=1780025611","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/golf-in-the-kingdom-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}