The Jerusalem Syndrome Audiobook by Marc Maron

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/57/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Jerusalem Syndrome Subtitle: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah Author: Marc Maron Narrator: Marc Maron Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 04-30-13 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 120 votes Genres: Comedy, Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker. The Jerusalem Syndrome is a genuine psychological phenomenon that often strikes visitors to the Holy Land - the delusion that they are suddenly direct vessels for the voice of God. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which has led him on a lifelong quest for religious significance and revelation in the most unlikely of places. Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, established rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. He spends some time exploring the dark side of things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as magic powder), conspiracy theories, and famous self-destructive comedians convince him that the gates of hell open beneath Los Angeles. As his quest matures, he reveals the religious aspects of Corporate America, pontificating on the timeless beauty of the Coca-Cola logo and even taking a trip to the Philip Morris cigarette factory, where the workers puff their own products with a zealot-like fervor. The culmination of Marons Jerusalem Syndrome comes during his own tour of the Holy Land, where, with Sony camcorder glued to his eye socket, he comes face-to-face with his own ambiguous relationship to Judaism and reaches the brink of spiritual revelation - or is it nervous breakdown? Marc Maron has considerably adapted and expanded his praised one-man show to craft a genuine literary memoir. Whether hes a genuine prophet or a neurotic mess, hell make you laugh as you question the meaning of life.