Please Don’t Tell My Guru

Please Don’t Tell My Guru
by Rico Provasoli
Independently published (November 2009)
314 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449591760
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449591762
Amazon
Read an excerpt on Osho News: My date with Deva

What an entertaining page-turner this is! A wonderfully rebellious, desperate, and searching for deeper meaning and safety character escapes the burdens and threats of modern life, and seeks to try the Siddhartha route but without the asceticism.

This hedonistic mid-life crisis involves sincere and naive spiritual bliss and peace with the guru mixed with a heavy dose of the all too often reality of an autocratic and oppressive organization. Walk the blade of ego surrender and total service to a greater cause versus the individualistic reaction and zany revolution with Swami Angelo (who makes rebellion to authority an art form).

You’ll be glad you did. I picked up a few books to give away as presents to friends.

It provokes stimulating conversation and sharing of experiences, as well as the game of deciphering fiction from faction.

This is a funny book, but as Wavy Gravy says, “It’s not funny if you don’t have a sense of humor.”

This is also a provocative book. I hope those who it provokes also have a sense of humor, and can be opened to be entertained by one person’s hallucination. If not, they can always write a book based on their hallucination.

Dr. Ron Destefano – reviewed on Amazon

There is a very blurry line between fiction and non-fiction. But this book is 100% all totally for real, a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know who you are if you were at The Ranch and you know everyone in the book. If you weren’t there, you recognize yourself in his characters…. and who better than the lovable, disarming, irreverent likes of Rico to expose you with a kiss. Those were the days, but those days are here now as well, there are no lessons learned for only one time in life, all times experience lessons over and over again. Rico makes the case that The Ranch is set in time but that time is also now. No escape, no need to escape. The book is both too long and too short. But life also seems to be that way too. Lovely read, pass it on.

Ma Mai-ke – reviewed on Amazon

Rico Provasoli (aka Sw Prem Richard) took sannyas in Pune in 1978. He practiced chiropractic for forty years, sailed the high seas and now lives in Northern California. He is known as an entertaining storyteller. His grandchildren believe his stories, although they might grow out of this.