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Okay, you don't have to take Wilber's word for it. But as more "serious" physicists like Wheeler and Capra sound like Zen Masters, and more and more gurus get wired up to bio-feedback machines, and as the rational West more and more confirms the metaphysics of the intuitive East, someone you trust is bound to confirm a great deal of Wilber's work. Sure, there are a lot of fakes who take advantage of the "Gee-Whiz" aspects of the field. But the west is going to have to accept the study of levels of consciousness...
...recording-a prostitute's taped confession implicating several powerful bad guys-that involves Jules in a maelstrom of thriller twists. Two eccentric allies help this Candide in Hitchcockland: a roller-skating shoplifter from Viet Nam (Thuy An Luu) and a puzzle addict who chain-smokes Gitanes and practices Zen (Richard Bohringer...
...which his father, who worked at the Library of Congress, smuggled him into a dingy corridor and told him. "Okay, Here is every book on baseball ever written Don't go blind." Amusing and fascinating as well are brief sketches of many of the sport's characters--the "Zen master" Red Carew, the wonderfully honest Pete Rose, and the Darth Vader of the Major Leagues, Steve Carlton, among other notables. And let's not forget Hunt Mitchell III and Pickles Smith, among the not so-notables...
...boosted its own U.S. grain-trade investment by buying out Koppel Inc., the company's American partner, thereby becoming sole owner of a giant export elevator in Long Beach, Calif., along with elevators in Salina, Kans., and Enola, Neb. Other Japanese firms with U.S. grain-handling interests include Zen-Noh, a cooperative that is building an $88 million terminal outside New Orleans...
Despite the spells of tedium the author's Zen-influenced insights into the human psyche, his occasional humor and the magnitude of his feat redeem the book...