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Brave, passionate and surprisingly universal journey of self-discovery. Feb 23, 2007
Journeys in Darkness and Light is a unique autobiography--forthright, passionate, and ultimately positive. Swedish-born Rebecca Weiss had the sort of unconventional childhood that comes from having been born to free-spirited intellectuals for whom child-rearing was an afterthought. Her mom was a renowned Swedish painter who dragged her off at a very early age to live on a beach in a hut in Corsica. Her dad, an artist and author who wrote the world-famous play, Marat/Sade, shipped her off to a brutal existence in a home for maladjusted children in Sweden, called Skå. After a few months there, Weiss was rescued by her mother, and enrolled in the far more successful Waldorf School in Stockholm, and then at A.S. Neill's Summerhill in England. Weiss went on to follow her muse to various parts of the world, including Spain, Germany, Israel, England, France, Holland, Russia and the United States, ultimately coming into her own as an accomplished artist and author, finally settling in Florida. This, by coincidence, was a path her great-great uncle had also taken in the 1800s, which she chronicles in her later book about his life, A Florida Pioneer. Journeys in Darkness and Light is marked by her friendships with people around the world leading uncompromising lives, and also chronicles her unrelenting spiritual quest and resolution. This incredibly honest book shows Weiss' evolution from an early existence devoid of structure into a mature world of her own creation, complete with beauty, form and illumination. The journey is fascinating, brave, passionate and surprisingly universal.
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