A mixture of facts and philosophy. Jean-Paul Sartre, William Blake, lao Tzu, Groucho Marx, Albert Einstein - hold forth on poetry religion, quantum physics.
Take a wild and rickety ride through the philosophies of the East and West to discover the madmen, dreamers, and unconventional wisdom seekers in the abridged, better-than-ever version of our best-selling cult classic. THE ESSENTIAL CRAZY WISDOM delivers the most significant, most lunatic, and most compelling insights of the ages. Scoop Nisker ...
The journal "Inquiring Mind" has long been at the fore of contemporary Buddhist thought, and this compendium of its articles, stories, interviews, and poetry traces the many intersections between Buddhism and the Western world. In "Tending to the World," readers explore the work of social activists, while "Living and Dying in a Body" presents ...
The Buddha said that "everything we need to know about life can be found inside this fathom-long body." Yet when most people start on the spiritual path, they consciously or unconsciously cut themselves off from their body. Why?This provocative synthesis of Eastern wisdom and Western science seeks to correct that tendency by bringing us back to ...
"[Wes "Scoop" Nisker] delivers zen zingers with Borscht Belt timing."-"The New York Times" Coming at a desperate time for the planet, this new Cody's Book draws from religion, evolution, cosmology, and Buddhism, and calls for a new spirituality-one that fits our modern, scientific worldview. Wes "Scoop" Nisker shows why life is beautiful ("Be Here ...
The author, a radio journalist, looks back on his career and shares his impressions of the sixties, hippies, the anti-war movement, People's Park, Timothy Leary, and Eastern philosophy.
One of the earliest types of folk wisdom from the grand old oral traditions, the riddle was a favourite form of word play for many of history's greatest minds, from Aristotle to James Joyce. A WORLD TREASURY OF RIDDLES is a collection of the best riddles from around the world, collected by mythologist and scholar Phil Cousineau. While most riddle ...
Hang on for a Wild Journey through the Political and Spiritual Adventures of the Baby-Boom Generation Join Wes "Scoop" Nisker as he takes us on a hilarious, wild ride through the heyday of the Beats and the Hippies and the birth of the modern environmental movement, and the surge of Buddhism in the West.
The Buddha said that "everything we need to know about life can be found inside this fathom long body". In this text, readers can gain a deeper understanding and acceptance of their physiological nature and its important role in their spiritual evolution.
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