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name: Muz Murray
about: In his youth the author was a surrealist painter (acquainted with Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp); a theatrical costume dresser for Cliff Richard, Jimmy Jewel and Ken Dodd; a BBC Scenic Artist, Set &amp; Costume Designer and actor in theatre and film, a stuntman and singer, world-traveller, zoo-keeper, art teacher, deckhand, street portraitist and many other weird and wonderful occupations during seven years of hitchhiking halfway round the world. As the founder of Gandalf’s Garden community and Magazine, he was considered a British spiritual cult hero in the Sixties.  He is a practised storyteller and resembles a cross between Gandalf and Dumbledore, as you will see in the book trailer video (which is greatly appealing to children).  Becaus In his youth the author was a surrealist painter (acquainted with Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp); a theatrical costume dresser for Cliff Richard, Jimmy Jewel and Ken Dodd; a BBC Scenic Artist, Set &amp; Costume Designer and actor in theatre and film, a stuntman and singer, world-traveller, zoo-keeper, art teacher, deckhand, street portraitist and many other weird and wonderful occupations during seven years of hitchhiking halfway round the world. As the founder of Gandalf’s Garden community and Magazine, he was considered a British spiritual cult hero in the Sixties.  He is a practised storyteller and resembles a cross between Gandalf and Dumbledore, as you will see in the book trailer video (which is greatly appealing to children).  Because of his many years of vagabondage—sleeping under the bridges with tramps in Paris, working as an elephant-trainer (Tel Aviv) and Night-club singer (Acco); a rock-driller in King Solomon’s mines (Timna, Israeli desert); trekking down Africa (being shot at by bandits, surviving knife attacks, hold-ups, poisoned darts and earthquakes), crossing deserts, living with the Dervishes in Turkey and Iran, living three years as a wandering monk in India, and clinging to the outside of an express train for 10 hours through the night—he is described in the mystic trade journals as ‘the Indiana Jones of Yoga.’ Known as Ramana Baba in India, Muz Murray is a respected spiritual master and mantra yogi and one of the rare westerners to have experienced Cosmic Consciousness, Samadhi and NDE. He has 45 years experience of teaching Mantra and Advaita Vedanta in many countries, including Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Mallorca, Portugal, Italy, Israel, India, Taiwan, Canada and the USA.  He now enjoys life as a hermit in the hills of southern Portugal, writing his books and hacking out a garden from the wilderness. ...more