Golf in the Kingdom
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/Murphy/Michael With wit and wisdom, the founder of the Esalen Institute explores the transcendental experience using the metaphor of golf. Originally published in 1973, this “masterpiece on the mysticism of golf” (San Francisco Chronicle) is now back in print f.Amazon.com Review
Esalen Institute founder Michael Murphy’s divine meditation on the royal and very ancient game defied categorization when it was first published in 1972, and it still does. Straight away hailed as a classic, it is part novel, part philosophy, part myth, part mysticism, part enchantment, part golf instructional, and is altogether unique. This joining together of sports and the supernatural looks at both life and golf from the inside out. The book’s central character is a wily Scotsman named Shivas Irons, a golf professional by craft, and a shaman by design, who Murphy, as participant in his own novel, meets on the links of Burningbush, in 1956 Fife. The tale of their round of golf together culminates in a wild night of whiskey and wisdom where their golf reasonably factually takes on a metaphysical glow as Shivas clarifies how the swing reflects the soul. It alters not only Murphy’s game, it also radically alters his mind and inner vision–and it’s truly unforgettable. For a golfer, Golf in the Kingdom is as essential as a set of clubs.
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First of all, brothers and sisters, this is just a pack of lies, he made it all up, it’s a work of fiction. I reflect the leader even admitted it later. It was the fad when this thing was written for hippie-dippies like Murphy or Carlos Castaneda to do this kind of thing, hoodwink the public and sell a zillion books. It worked then and it works now. Don’t be a sucker.
Second of all, brothers and sisters, the Esalen institute drivel that Murphy and his ilk have been promoting for decades is transparently a load of hogwash. If you want real mysticism, read Krishnamurti or Gurdjieff. (And do be aware that this book only uses golf as a mouthpiece for outdated sixties-era pseudo-mystical junk.)
Third of all, brothers and sisters, golf has nothing to do with spirituality. Golf is an excuse for potbellied ancient rich guys to pretend they are athletes, while destroying about a hundred acres of scenery in the process, and then pumping the groundwater full of poisons to kill all the bugs and the weeds they don’t like to see on their small golf courses — which is what they reflect of “natural beauty”. If an evil sport ever existed, golf is it. It ranks up there with feeding Christians to the lions.
In additional words, golf is a waste of time, this book is a waste of time, and you should find better things to do.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
How does a high school level writer even get published. This is total junk.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I marvel how a book that exploits age-ancient simple-minded stereotypes of men and women fails to draw criticism. This simplistic offering deserves zero stars in that it ties in to nothing of the game of golf, nothing of the scenery of humanity, and nothing of interest. Zero stars and the JACKASS award for a total and perfect lack of sensitivity. Ann
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
but this one just had to go. While this book offers tips on neither golf nor life it IS rife with stereotyping and missing in continuity. The point of the book will elude you – guaranteed. The ’spiritual’ ending makes you marvel why he didn’t question a real writer to suggest a suitable conclusion (and while he was in the area, a small editing was in order as well – this offering is in need of more than a small revision). At any rate, I read these reviews before I bought the book and failed to heed the sensible warnings posted herein. Do yourself a huge favor, check this one out of the library BEFORE you buy. What a total waste of excellent paper.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book uses a technique that I’ve noticed is predictable of alot of new age books. They start out honestly well grounded, then (assuming that if you’ve read this far you accept anything the leader says) they go off the deep-end.
The book starts off with a tale of playing golf with a man called Chivas Irons, and this is ok. Then it wanders into of all things: physics! Mr. Murphy seems to feel that our current crop of physics P.H.D.s have it all incorrect, and that they should come to him to get straightened out. He talks about “right gravity” and all sorts of stuff. Then there is a chapter called “We are all Kites in the Wind”. Appealing analogy you say? No analogy, he means it! He states that we are all acutally kites in the wind! What is the evidence for this statement? None is agreed.
As you have probably guessed by now, this book isn’t about golf. It’s about…., ahhhh,…whatever – you tell me. If you are the sort of person who likes silly things, claiming that proves “open-mindedness” and “imagination”, then you’ll probably like this book. If you are looking for a book on golf instruction, you’ll be bitterly dissappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5