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Zen in the Art of Close Encounters
Crazy Wisdom and UFOs
By David Pursglove and The New Being Project
Our Price: $14.50
Our Item Code: zen
Postage Code: book1
333 Pages, Trade Paperback
Cover Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
The New Being Project
Related listings: Crop Circles
Date: 1995
Added to Catalog: 12/8/97
WIRT: x3534344
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Credibility
NR
Not Rated |
Research Value
3
Moderate |
Cultural Interest
5
Very High |
Visual Information
3
Moderate |
Style
4
Stylish |
Silliness
3
Moderate |
Wow Factor
4
Surprising |
Bargain
4
High |
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Explanation of Ratings
Style = Stylish: Compelling literary style; easy to read.
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A sampler of pithy writings from many
well-known figures in the "liberal wing" of the UFO movement --
that is, those concerned with abduction, contact and other
human-interest aspects
(rather than saucers, propulsion systems and government cover-up).
John Mack, Steven Greer, Whitley Streiber, Michael Lindemann,
Keith Thompson,
Leo Sprinkle and even LSD guru Timothy Leary put in guest appearances.
With 36 authors and artists featured here, there is something to
amuse nearly everyone.
Editor Pursglove pulls together some of the best
writing of each author, focussing mainly on philosophical themes
like "What do we really know about anything anyway?"
Apart from fine wordcraft,
we appreciate this book as a window into the personalities
of the authors, many of whom we have heard of but
haven't seen in print before.
We found plenty of unexpected
wisdom herein. Zen
lives up to its name in letting the UFO universe flow gently across
its pages, never forcing the issue to be that of "true or false."
Fun and stimulating reading.
-- Glenn Campbell
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From the Book Cover
Hey man. . .Are UFOs real?? That's the wary question from anyone who's
only recently discovered this mind-pretzeling, science-monkeywrenching phenomenon.
In today's vernacular the reply might be, "Yep, sure are: If you can
expand your meaning of "real" to include what's beyond what you can imagine
you can imagine -- and then double that."
An evocative, much older,
but just as radical reply might be this from The Practice of True Reality
by 12th Century Zen Master Hongzhi:
"If you accord everywhere with thorough
clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white
ox or wildcat, helping to arouse wonder, you can be called a complete person. So
we hear that this is how one on the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind
we still have great hardship."
In that spirit then, here is a large
anthology including the best kinds of high and low strangenesses you may have heard
of (and some you haven't imagined). These are the kind that present us with paradoxes
on top of paradoxes. Our neurological relays pop -- which may be exactly the point!
Everything
from reports by people who've initiated successful contact, to serious psychiatric
essays, to cartoons, to a disconcerting short story, to the connection with psychedelics,
to a kid telling of being levitated out of his bedroom at night for a romp on the
local swing set with several little gray UFOLKS, one of whom fell off a swing flat
on his back.
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Cross References
- UFO as Folklore: Several articles on UFOs as folklore
- Alien Abduction Therapy and Hypnotic Regression: Several articles on abduction therapy
- Alien Abduction: Several articles on abduction
- Crop Circles: Several articles on crop circles
- UFO Skeptics: Article by Daniel Drasin: "Zen and the Art of Debunkery",
- Shari Adamiak: Article: "Close Encounter Zen Lab", including report on
- Bill Barker: cartoon by Barker, p.102
- Greg Bishop: Interviews Robert Anton Wilson, p.127-131
- CSETI: crop circle investigation and close encounter, p.73-99;
- Daniel Drasin: Article: "Zen and the Art of Debunkery", p.43-58
- Marilyn Ferguson: Article: "Commentary: Crop Circles in a Trackless Field", p.288-292
- Steven Greer: Article: "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact in Southern
- Michael Grosso: Article "Close Encounters of the Jazz Kind," p.22-31;
- Nick Herbert: Article: "Fringe Science," showing that prominent atomic scientists
- Stanley Krippner: Article "An Anomalous Sighting?" p. 32-39
- Jon Klimo: Article: "Reality Creation and the Unified Field in Otherworldly
- Michael Lindemann: Excerpts from article: "UFOs and the Global Situation", p.155-157
- Rima Laibow: Article: "Excerpt from 'Psychological and Psychodynamic
- John E. Mack, M.D.: Article "Other Realities: The 'Alien Abduction' Phenomenon,"
- Terence McKenna: Interview on "Psychedelic Mushrooms, UFOs, and the End of History",
- Jean Mundy: Article: "Hey UFOLKS, Allee, Allee, All in Free!", p.309-319
- The New Being Project: Author
- Brian O'Leary: Excerpt from his book, "The Second Coming of Science", p.265-266
- David Pursglove: Editor;
- Ron Russell: Article: "An Unhill and Stretched Time at a Crop Circle," about his
- Peter Rojcewicz: Article: "Between One Eye Blink and the Next: Fairies, UFOs, and
- Leo Sprinkle: Excerpt: "The Significance of UFO Experiences", p.164-165
- Whitley Strieber: Contributes article "Extreme Strangeness," from his book
- John Salter: 2-page quote, p.134-135
- Dennis Stillings: Article: "Mythopoeia on a Few Short Anomalies", p.204-213
- Keith Thompson: Excerpt from "Angels and Aliens", p.166-178
- Barry Taff: Article: "UFOs on Trial: Evidence 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt'", p.146-154
- Robert Anton Wilson: Interviewed, p.127-131; letter to Saucer Smear, p.296
- John White: Article: "The Danger of 'Gods from Outer Space'", p. 136-141
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