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Hide and Play Dead: From Memoir to Real-Time Healing
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ISBN10: 1544264437
ISBN13: 9781544264431
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 4 2017
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781544264431
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 4 2017
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Hide and Play Dead is not a book to be read.
This book is to be experienced. This book is an unfolding adventure story that you will not want to put down for a minute. You will be emotionally moved and sometimes shocked as you read the writer's memoirs. You will enter his intimate life history starting nine generations before his birth and up through his current real-time adventure of self-healing while writing. This book will engage you.
This book is to be experienced. This book is an unfolding adventure story that you will not want to put down for a minute. You will be emotionally moved and sometimes shocked as you read the writer's memoirs. You will enter his intimate life history starting nine generations before his birth and up through his current real-time adventure of self-healing while writing. This book will engage you.
Whoever you are-- whatever your age, gender, personal background, racial identity, sexual orientation, vocation or social class-- you will strongly relate to some parts of this book. This book will begin to heal you.
The book is structured to evoke the emotional states necessary to recover from oppression and teach by example the survival skills needed to stay safe from social predators. OVERVIEW
Hide and Play Dead is a memoir and nonfiction novel that represents a quantum leap in writing technology, healing methodologies, and social engineering. The autobiographical work is interwoven with a real-time adventure story about my liberation from ancestral patterns based on slavery. The flow, from the beginning and up to the joyous conclusion of the book, appears as a seamless cinematographic stream with an unforgettable true storyline. It is a riveting exposé and psychological thriller filled with international intrigue and startling revelations uncovering secrets of the black aristocracy and intelligentsia, renowned educational institutions, and the field of medicine. Real people, real discovery and real adventure into the unknown are the cornerstones of self-healing that I both experience and personify while writing the book. Hide and Play Dead is rich with moving anecdotes, irony and humor, innuendoes and mysterious dangling phrases, metaphor and symbolism, poetic prose and mythological references, allegorical and mystical depictions, anchors and leitmotifs. The element of shock, the mixed genres, and a stark self-revealing stance produce a level of excitement that is necessary to break traumatic patterns in the reader, as well as to create a literary masterpiece. Hide and Play Dead challenges systems of social oppression, including: racism, dysfunctional parenting, predatory relationships, educational elitism, homophobia, and physician corruption under the tyranny of the business model. It highlights the ultimate threat to democracy: global neo-slavery under the rule of an insatiable corporate elite. THE PLOT
This is my story of being a mixed-race African-American growing up as the solo child desegregationist in a conservative Pennsylvania city in the 1960's, whose dysfunctional family represents the pinnacle of the black aristocracy. I escape racial violence and domestic turmoil by going to the nation's most elite private schools, where I excel academically but fail to fit in socially-replicating my parent's own histories of being a child prodigy and abandoned half-Jewish orphan. I come out of the closet as an openly gay man while attending Harvard Medical School, and become an iconoclastic alternative healer. I narrate my series of ten toxic marriages to narcissists and other social predators, and my work, as I witness the corruption and collapse of the field of medicine. I reach a crisis point and realize that I must write a truthful account of my history to recover from a lifetime of trauma. Dramatic real-time events occur as I write the book, which are highlighted by the discovery of my ancestral roots, and the after-effects of slavery upon my entire life's course and identity.
The book is structured to evoke the emotional states necessary to recover from oppression and teach by example the survival skills needed to stay safe from social predators. OVERVIEW
Hide and Play Dead is a memoir and nonfiction novel that represents a quantum leap in writing technology, healing methodologies, and social engineering. The autobiographical work is interwoven with a real-time adventure story about my liberation from ancestral patterns based on slavery. The flow, from the beginning and up to the joyous conclusion of the book, appears as a seamless cinematographic stream with an unforgettable true storyline. It is a riveting exposé and psychological thriller filled with international intrigue and startling revelations uncovering secrets of the black aristocracy and intelligentsia, renowned educational institutions, and the field of medicine. Real people, real discovery and real adventure into the unknown are the cornerstones of self-healing that I both experience and personify while writing the book. Hide and Play Dead is rich with moving anecdotes, irony and humor, innuendoes and mysterious dangling phrases, metaphor and symbolism, poetic prose and mythological references, allegorical and mystical depictions, anchors and leitmotifs. The element of shock, the mixed genres, and a stark self-revealing stance produce a level of excitement that is necessary to break traumatic patterns in the reader, as well as to create a literary masterpiece. Hide and Play Dead challenges systems of social oppression, including: racism, dysfunctional parenting, predatory relationships, educational elitism, homophobia, and physician corruption under the tyranny of the business model. It highlights the ultimate threat to democracy: global neo-slavery under the rule of an insatiable corporate elite. THE PLOT
This is my story of being a mixed-race African-American growing up as the solo child desegregationist in a conservative Pennsylvania city in the 1960's, whose dysfunctional family represents the pinnacle of the black aristocracy. I escape racial violence and domestic turmoil by going to the nation's most elite private schools, where I excel academically but fail to fit in socially-replicating my parent's own histories of being a child prodigy and abandoned half-Jewish orphan. I come out of the closet as an openly gay man while attending Harvard Medical School, and become an iconoclastic alternative healer. I narrate my series of ten toxic marriages to narcissists and other social predators, and my work, as I witness the corruption and collapse of the field of medicine. I reach a crisis point and realize that I must write a truthful account of my history to recover from a lifetime of trauma. Dramatic real-time events occur as I write the book, which are highlighted by the discovery of my ancestral roots, and the after-effects of slavery upon my entire life's course and identity.
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