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Unworldly Wise, Wei Wu Wei’s eighth and final book, is an enlightened parable in the form of a conversation between an owl and a rabbit about God, love, and the way to be free from the traps of our minds. Using the further pseudonym O. O. O., the author was obviously having some fun with his readers. In this most accessible of his remarkable works on the conscious life, Wei Wu Wei shows us that wisdom and laughter go hand in hand.
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„Wei Wu Wei“ wurde 1895 in eine angesehene irische Familie geboren, wuchs auf einem Landsitz bei Cambridge, England, auf und erhielt eine umfassende Ausbildung, unter anderem an der Universität Oxford. Schon früh entwickelte er ein Interesse an Ägyptologie, das 1923 zu der Veröffentlichung zweier Bücher über die Geschichte und Kultur des alten Ägyptens führte.
Es folgte eine Phase intensiver künstlerischer Tätigkeit in Großbritannien während der 1920er- und 1930er-Jahre: als Theoretiker, Theaterproduzent, Schöpfer radikaler „Tanzdramen“, Herausgeber mehrerer einschlägiger Zeitschriften sowie Autor zweier Bücher zu diesen Themen. Er beeinflusste zahlreiche namhafte Dramatiker, Dichter und Tänzer seiner Zeit – darunter auch seine Cousine Ninette de Valois, Gründerin des Royal Ballet, das ursprünglich aus seiner eigenen Tanztruppe am Cambridge Festival Theatre hervorging, das er von 1926 bis 1933 gepachtet hatte.
Nachdem er dieses Tätigkeitsfeld ausgeschöpft hatte, wandte er sich der Philosophie und Metaphysik zu. Dies führte zu einer längeren Reisezeit durch Asien, unter anderem mit Aufenthalten im Ashram von Sri Ramana Maharshi in Tiruvannamalai, Indien. 1958, im Alter von 63 Jahren, erschien das erste Buch unter dem Namen Wei Wu Wei. In den folgenden 16 Jahren veröffentlichte er sieben weitere Werke, darunter sein letztes Buch im Jahr 1974 unter dem zusätzlichen Pseudonym O.O.O.
Den Großteil dieser späten Schaffensperiode verbrachte er mit seiner Ehefrau in Monaco. Es wird angenommen, dass er unter anderem Lama Anagarika Govinda, Dr. Hubert Benoit, John Blofeld, Douglas Harding, Robert Linssen, Arthur Osborne, Robert Powell und Dr. D. T. Suzuki persönlich kannte. Er verstarb 1986 im Alter von 90 Jahren.
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