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BY PHIL SHANKLAND
Diary of a
MYSTIC APPRENTICE
A candid, often comic journey through doubt, meditation, poverty, spiritual teachers, and fleeting epiphanies.
Diary of a Mystic Apprentice isn’t a guidebook — it’s a field report from the edges of sanity and stillness. You may not find enlightenment, but you’ll meet someone who earnestly, foolishly, beautifully tried.
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“Maybe I’m enlightened after all and I don’t know it.”
In Diary of a Mystic Apprentice, the Lightweight Warrior, a millionaire on paper, sets off in search of enlightenment armed with a DIY mantra and an overdraft. He constantly falls prey to the distractions of the world – money, love and coffee. He moves from the city to a small market town to sit in a cold church for two hours every morning for three years with an old man with a white beard. What can possibly go wrong? Irreverent, often amusing, occasionally heartbreaking and always surprisingly relatable, this is the antidote spiritual memoir for those who think the path to enlightenment is taken far too seriously … and who, like the Lightweight Warrior, still check their phone for likes.
