Lessons From a Life on the Road
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| | To order your copy of Doug "Ten" Rose's book, "Fearless Puppy on American Road," visit FearlessPuppy.org. | | |
Doug "Ten" Rose's book, "Fearless Puppy on American Road" is a true story so amazing that it reads like a fantasy.
A transfictional self-help book that makes deep spiritual impressions under cover of an adventure story, Fearless Puppy on American Road follows the author's outrageous voyage as a 15 year old hitchhiking runaway as he escapes a life of drug dealing in Brooklyn.
In his book, Rose, who has spent much of the last 35 years hitchhiking through North America, recounts every stupid mistake (and most of the saving grace) that humanity has to offer, as well as some bits of wisdom, enlightened ideas, hard lessons, colorful characters and beautiful, generous people, that he encountered while living a life on the road.
He describes himself as "the luckiest homeless man in the world," and often tells people he meets that he's attended eight different colleges and universities in his life, "but I got most of my real education in other people's cars."
Within his book you'll meet several saintly Tibetan Lamas. You will also meet a man who is his own uncle, specialists in smoke, mirrors, and invisibility, Christian ethics, Jewish ritual, lurid sex, oxygen orgasms, heavenly Hell's Angels, phony preachers, domestic violence, domestic solutions, racist killers in America, Canadian race wars, Native American wise men, angelic witches, benevolent heroin addicts, magical birds, lesbian musicians playing a rock concert for the deaf, the musician raised by a multi-ethnic group of prostitutes, martial artists battling neo-Nazis, the modern-day Robin Hood, and many other strange and wonderful people.
Though Rose, a 56-year-old Vermonter that hasn’t had a permanent address since 1972, has never had a bank account or credit card and, right now, probably has less than $500 to his name, he has raised tens of thousands of dollars on behalf of orphaned children in Mexico, homeless people in Massachusetts and famine victims in Africa over the last 30 years.
In fact, whenever Rose explains his newest altruistic effort, it’s like listening to George Carlin channel Baba Ram Dass. "The idea of this project is to increase the number of ‘wisdom professionals’ on the planet, because we’re all a bunch of dumb motherfuckers," he says.
On that note, the majority of profits from this book's sales will be used to support Tibetan Monks and Nuns in Asia. For more information, or to order your copy of Fearless Puppy on American Road, visit FearlessPuppy.org or send an email to ten(at)fearlesspuppy.org. |
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