Conversations With The King ~ Journals of a Young Apprentice, by David E. Stanley & Dr. David Gruder, is about the extraordinary lessons Elvis Presley, the private mystic and healer, taught his stepbrother David E. Stanley during his seventeen years as his young apprentice. It is also about the equally important lessons David learned from witnessing Elviss titanic struggle between his most authentic spiritual self, his private demons and his feeling imprisoned by the public icon he had become.