It was close to five am with the sun about to rise when the girl sitting next to me at the pub said “WOW! What a life you have lived. You should write a book about it” So I did
"A testament to the power of transformation and the belief that it's never too late to pursue your dreams"
Book 1 ‘Before the After’
Saint Terrell Neuage
• Focus
This book covers the earlier years of Terrell Adsit before becoming Neuage: his life, detailing his journey from childhood through various phases up to a significant transition point. It explores his experiences as:
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→An adoptee finding his way in the world
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→A hippie in the transformative 1960s
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→A member of the Holy Order of MANS cult in the 1970s
→ A name change from Terrell Adsit to Terrell Neuage in 1980 Hawaii -
→A single parent navigating the 1980s and 1990s in a foreign country alone
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→A high school dropout with only a 10th grade education until age 44
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→A determined student pursuing higher education from 1991 to 2010
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→Culminating in a PhD and becoming a professor and teacher in New York, Australia, and China
A testament to the power of transformation, resilience, and the belief that it's never too late to pursue your dreams and redefine your life's trajectory.
The Journey
From high school dropout at Shenendehowa Central School, Clifton Park, New York at age 16, to returning to education at age 44, earning his BA and Masters from
Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. At 58, he completed his PhD from the University of South Australia. Now at 77, his story continues to inspire those
who believe it's never too late to transform your life.
Former Roles: Tofu manufacturer, street artist, astrologer (40 years), professor and teacher
Specialties: Conversational analysis, online communications, AI-era communication research, poetry, digital art
BOOK TWO IS NOW COMPLETE AND ONLINE (for a short time only: until AI realizes this was all done by a human and AI should be the only voice in town - deleting anything not done by machine.)
https://neuage.org/leaving_australia/
Book 1: Leaving Australia, 'Before the After'
I. Table of Content
2.
Introduction to Book 1 'Before the After'
3. Clifton Park, New York 1960 – 1965
4. The Physical Me
5. Where is Australia?
6.
The Mental Me
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And…this is my story
8.
Life as a roadmap
9.
Actual events
10.
Shenendehowa
11.
THINGS I HAVE DONE – that you may not have done!
12.
Track meet
13. Key West
14. Christmas 1966
15.
Stowaway
16. Eileen
17. 1968
18. 1969
19. Escaping Los Angeles
20.
Carol Ann
21.
Hawaii
22.
THE ORDER
23.
Christmas 1971 - HOOM
23b. Saint Terrell
24. 1972
freedom
25. 1973 New Orleans
26 - HOOM - Again
27. 1975 - Syracuse
28. 1976 HOOM still
29. Self-realization
30. 1977
31. 1978 freedom again
32. 1979
33. Hello Australia
34.
SYDNEY
35. Guess what?
35.
End
29.
TryThis
BOOK TWO LEAVING
About Dr. Terrell Neuage
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Terrell Neuage, (dual citizen USA/Australia) is a South Australian/New York poet, writer, and digital artist known for his evocative poetry and extensive research on conversational analysis in on-line communciations (including communication in the AI era; from sharing information to making sense of it). His best-selling autobiographies;Leaving America (Before the After) & Leaving Australia (after) – exploring life as a hippie, brother in a California Cult (Holy Order of MANS) as Brother Terrell Adsit, Astrolger (40-years) to non-believer, and adventures in Australia, single parent, tofu manufacturer/street artist, China, the USA & fifty+ other ountries. From high school drop out, Shenendehowa Central School, Clifton Park, New York at age 16, back to school at age 44 (BA & Masters from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia) to PhD from the University of South Australia at age 58 to knocking on your door at age 77.