Suffused with a unique brand of irreverent humor, this account recalls the autobiographical explorations of the most significant alternative communities, ashrams, gurus, shamans, and consciousness-raising seminars of the past 40 years. Serving as a human guinea pig for many of the most popular cutting-edge New Age, human potential, and spiritual experiments, Eliezer Sobel recounts intercontinental adventures in India, Israel, Brazil, and Haiti. From Primal Therapy to the Dalai Lama, this perceptively witty analysis includes brushes with cults, wild experiments with sex and psychedelics, and encounters with visionary gurus and contemporary madmen.

Master The Mind Monkey: Experience Your Excellence gently guides you into deeper and deeper levels of understanding of the mind and the tricks it plays. It exposes the deepest truth in a manner that makes it very practical and applicable in one’s professional and personal life. The direct and lucid conversational style facilitates you to reach the “Ultimate Understanding”. The flow is pleasantly smooth, the words are endearingly down-to-earth and the sentences are refreshingly simple and shorn of clichés. The book is full of lovely examples and humourous anecdotes that you can easily relate to. It is appreciative and empowering, yet at the same time, compassionately ruthless with falsehood, mental laziness, blame and a lack of commitment. It is an impactful transformational experience that can serve as the bridge between the roots of Understanding and the fruits of tangible results.

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and professionals. Split into two sections, covering composition and performance, and technology and innovation, this volume offers truly international perspectives on ever-evolving practices. Including chapters on audience interaction, dynamic music methods, AI, and live electronic performances, this is recommended reading for professionals, students, and researchers looking for global insights into the fields of music production, music business, and music technology.

Self-Loathing for Beginners is a wickedly funny take on our relentlessly upbeat self-improvement culture. Breaking ranks with the happiness police who have convinced us that self-loathing is just one more thing to hate about ourselves, author Lynn Phillips will show you, the beginning self-loather, how to self-loathe properly. By studying this book’s mini-essays, Q&As, mantras, and tips from self-loathing masters, you will learn the most effective ways to develop your self-loathing potential. Whether you are sabotaging your career, bungling a relationship, or cheating on the latest fad diet, Self-Loathing for Beginners is the essential primer on how best to despise yourself!

Endings That Begin A Journey Into Love Through The Universal Laws of Reciprocity takes you on the journey of several people, from all walks of life, as they become friends. It is written with a conversational voice, as if they sat around the fire, sharing their life lessons and stories about the Universal Laws of Reciprocity, and how these laws manifest in their lives. NOW, through the understanding they gained about the Universal Laws of Reciprocity, they share them with you. Create positive changes in life by understanding how to: ATTRACT security, loving relationships, and spiritual wisdom CHANGE the belief systems that no longer serve you, and are not yours ASK for and RECEIVE what you truly REQUIRE to manifest in your life GIVE out only what you truly REQUIRE to get back for optimum health and happiness VIEW the whole of humanity, your ancestors, and all living things in the Universe as part of YOU. All of us have a destiny not of our own writing. It is like an outline of our life that came with us at birth. As we lived and walked our path of Growth and Learning; living the lessons and experiences of our days and years, we filled in that outline with The Story of Me. We put flesh on our own bones. One day, we stand filled full with lifeyoung or oldWe stand fulfilled and ready to follow the purpose(s) of our creation. Are you awakening to the purpose of your creation? Are you writing your own story? Or are you choosing to follow the script society, religion and your ancestors wrote for you? Through understanding of the Universal Laws of Reciprocity, you become the creator of your life Its all about choosing. Each choice takes us on a journey within our Destiny make it all yours.

Suffused with a unique brand of irreverent humor, this account recalls the autobiographical explorations of the most significant alternative communities, ashrams, gurus, shamans, and consciousness-raising seminars of the past 40 years. Serving as a human guinea pig for many of the most popular cutting-edge New Age, human potential, and spiritual experiments, Eliezer Sobel recounts intercontinental adventures in India, Israel, Brazil, and Haiti. From Primal Therapy to the Dalai Lama, this perceptively witty analysis includes brushes with cults, wild experiments with sex and psychedelics, and encounters with visionary gurus and contemporary madmen.

Indian Gurus remain an important issue in the contemporary world and affect politics, culture and commerce alike. This spiritual/economic figure has become a worldwide phenomenon, signalling that syncretism is taking place on a global scale. At the same time, the concept of the guru will remain a constant challenge to ideas of enlightenment and democracy. The present book focusses on this challenge presenting contributions from an interdisciplinary perspective. German, Indian and American scholars have explored guruism in tradition, economy and Jungian psychology as well as in contemporary literature, travel writing and film. Individual studies of gurus such as Ramana Maharshi or Osho/Bhagvan, but also Gandhi and Tolstoi furthermore illustrate the spiritual globalization that has been taking place over the last century.

poems, 2010-11. including "sex act," "septuagint," "offseason," "trembling calm," "rendezvous," "the wind," "hedonia junkie," "in pieces," "sexual american," "gypsy doll," and more. photography by Crazy Lombardo the Master of Pork.

“We’re Going to See the Beatles!” presents the story of Beatlemania in America as experienced by their most devoted fans. “We’re Going to See the Beatles!” includes anecdotes from those who cheered the group as they arrived at Kennedy Airport in 1964, who kept vigil for them outside the Plaza Hotel, and who sat in the studio audience of The Ed Sullivan Show for the band’s landmark first live TV broadcast. Other fans detail what it was like to see the Beatles in one of their rare concerts at such famous venues as Shea Stadium and Candlestick Park. From the earliest whispers about the band to the Beatles’ appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and from their subsequent tours and albums to their breakup, author Garry Berman has collected stories from the fans who witnessed the hysteria firsthand. Contributors from around the United States also share photographs and mementos to help create a richly detailed and entertaining oral history. What emerges is a highly personal account of the Beatles and their incredible impact on music and popular culture.