Lost in a dark wood like Dante, Nicholas Hagger tells the story of his search for meaning, purpose and truth that took him to Iraq and Japan, and encounters with Zen and Chinaas Cultural Revolution, which he was the first to discover. In Libya, then a Cold-War battleground, he began four yearsa service and a double life as an undercover British intelligence agent (here revealed for the first time). He witnessed Gaddafias Egyptian/Soviet-backed coup, and its terrifying aftermath tore into his personal life, plunged him into a Dark Night of the Soul and faced him with execution. He went on to serve in London as Prime Minister Edward Heathas aunofficial Ambassadora to the African liberation movements at the height of Soviet and Chinese expansion in Africa during the Cold War. Despite being routinely followed by surveillance squads he found Reality on a aMystic Waya of loss, purgation and illumination. He now perceived the universe as a unity, and had 16 experiences of the metaphysical Light.... II was an entry to the Senior Branch of the Foreign Service, and I was not sure that I wanted to join the Foreign Service, whose ... Civil Service exam, insistence on being independent of System I sat the four papers of the written examination. They were spread over two days: an Essay paper, an English paper and two General papers, one of which required me to ... arguments.28 I enjoyed answering the literary questions but not the unpalatable, turgid questions about a expenditure onanbsp;...
Title | : | My Double Life 1 |
Author | : | Nicholas Hagger |
Publisher | : | John Hunt Publishing - 2015-06-07 |
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