![]() ![]() Doty accepts, and over the next several weeks, Ruth teaches him how to relax his body, clear his mind, respond with compassion to himself and to others, and visualize the future he wants for himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() The shop owner’s mother-a woman named Ruth-takes an interest in Doty’s plight and offers to teach him a series of meditative practices she promises will help him make his dreams a reality. Doty’s father is an alcoholic who struggles to hold down a job, and his mother suffers from clinical depression Doty grows up with only precarious access to necessities like food and housing and is often forced to act as a caretaker to his own parents.Īt age 12, Doty happens to visit a store called Cactus Rabbit Magic Shop. Doty’s own story begins with an overview of his boyhood in 1960s Lancaster, California-now a suburb of Los Angeles, but at the time, a small town. ![]()
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