The Point of Vanishing

Rashid Maxwell grew up in a post-war England that was frugal, repressive and rebellious. After public school, active military service in the Royal Navy and a gap year working his way round North America, he studied at Oxford University and Chelsea College of Art. Thereafter, he lived for nearly twenty years as an artist, art lecturer and art therapist until, following an inner voice, he sold everything and went to live organically with his wife and four children in the remote Welsh Marches. It was there that a close call with death impelled him to make his life a quest. With his family, he travelled to the East and met his master Osho. It was at this point that his real life began. For thirteen years he lived and worked in the master's commune. Since the master's death, he has lived in many countries, painting, designing landscapes and buildings for sacred use, writing poetry, keeping bees, gardening in rural Devon with his beloved Nisheetha and playing with a pandemonium of grandchildren.