Tim Guest
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Tim Guest (16 July 1975 – 31 July 2009) (also known as Yogesh and Errol Mysterio) was an English author and journalist.
Early childhood
When he was four, Guest was left in the UK by his psychologist mother, Anne Geraghty, who went to India and became involved with the emergent Rajneesh movement, founded by the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, now known as Osho. She returned from her trip dressed all in orange and with a new name: Ma Prem Vismaya, a Sanskrit name which translates as "wonderful love".{{cite web|url=http://srimadbhagavatam.com/v/vismaya|title=Sanskrit:vismaya|publisher=srimadbhagbvan.com|access-date=10 August 2009}} She dyed Tim's clothes orange and gave him a mala, a bead necklace with picture of Bhagwan. Tim was given the new name—Swami Prem Yogesh, meaning 'Love of Yoga'.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}
Tim and his mother moved to Medina, a large sannyas commune in Suffolk, England that ran from 1981 to 1985; here Tim went to the commune school, where English and maths were compulsory and history and politics were not taught.Guest, Tim (2004) My Life in Orange{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/my-life-in-orange-by-tim-guest-574723.html|title=My life in Orange|work=The Independent|access-date=9 August 2009| location=London | first=Christina | last=Patterson | date=28 January 2004}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Guest spent his youth moving between Osho communes in England, India, Germany and the United States, a childhood he was later to describe as "somewhere in between Peter Pan and Lord of the Flies".{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5978364/Rising-literary-star-Tim-Guest-found-dead-in-bed-by-new-wife.html|title=Rising literary star Tim Guest found dead in bed by new wife|publisher=the telegraph|access-date=8 August 2009 | location=London | first1=Aislinn | last1=Simpson | first2=Murray | last2=Wardrop | date=6 August 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://blogs.news.sky.com/editorsblog/Post:e11b86f0-374c-4201-b498-0a23518cd9c4|title=Second Life Pioneer Tim Guest Dead at 34|publisher=Sky News|access-date=7 August 2009}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jan/18/biography.features|title=Oranges and lemons|work=The Guardian|access-date=7 August 2009 | location=London | first=Molloy | last=Woodcraft | date=18 January 2004}}{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/S/second_lives/tguest.html |title=second lives, "We have found ourselves but lost each other" |publisher=Channel 4 |access-date=7 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090714195536/http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/S/second_lives/tguest.html |archive-date=14 July 2009 }}
Return to London and teenage years
His mother left the movement when he was 11 years old and they returned to London.{{cite news | last =Bedell | first =Geraldine | title =The future was orange | work =The Observer | date =11 January 2004 | url =https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/11/india.biography | access-date = 17 October 2008 | location=London}}
Higher education
He attended Sussex University where he studied psychology, and obtained a MA degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.
Career
Guest had articles published in The Guardian, The Observer and the Telegraph Magazine. He published two books: My Life in Orange (2004) about his early life growing up in the Osho movement; and Second Lives (2008), about virtual communities where he was known as Errol Mysterio.{{cite news | last =Musgrove | first =Mike | title =Traversing a Parallel Universe | newspaper =The Washington Post | page =C13 | date =28 February 2008 | url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703100_pf.html | access-date = 17 October 2008 }}
Death
Guest died in July 2009 after a suspected drug overdose at 34 years old. He was found dead by his wife Jo; despite her effort to resuscitate him she was unable to revive him.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/28/tim-guest-elizabeth-day|title=The Strange Life and Death of Tim Guest|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 March 2010| location=London | first=Elizabeth | last=Day | date=28 March 2010}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5978364/Rising-literary-star-Tim-Guest-found-dead-in-bed-by-new-wife.html|title=Rising literary star Tim Guest found dead in bed by new wife|publisher=the telegraph|access-date=7 August 2009|publication-date=2009-08-07 | location=London | first1=Aislinn | last1=Simpson | first2=Murray | last2=Wardrop | date=6 August 2009}} Tests found 1,020 micrograms of morphine per litre of blood.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/28/tim-guest-elizabeth-day|title=The strange life and death of Tim Guest|work=The Observer|date= 28 March 2010 | location=London | first=Elizabeth | last=Day}} Barnet coroners verdict was that he died of non-dependent drug use.{{cite web|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23775415-author-set-for-us-stardom-died-of-massive-morphine-overdose.do|title=Author set for US stardom died of massive morphine overdose|publisher=The London Evening Standard|date=26 November 2009}}
Major works
- My Life in Orange, London: Granta Books, 2004
- Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds, London: Random House, 2008
References
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External links
- {{YouTube|fD6YEbaHWh0|Second lives-Tim Guest}}
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Category:21st-century English memoirists
Category:Alumni of the University of Sussex
Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia