Description
| Product ID: | 9781556438165 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Cracking Tower |
| Subtitle: | A Strategy for Transcending 2012 |
| Authors: | Author: Jim DeKorne |
| Page Count: | 232 |
| Subjects: | Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge |
| Description: | End-of-the-world paranoia has been with us since time immemorial. Now, with the end of the legendary Mayan “long count” calendar looming on December 21, 2012 and recent threats of a worldwide economic collapse triggering widespread apprehension and a search for answers, The Cracking Tower offers an arsenal of strategies to turn these fears into an opportunity for spiritual and personal growth. Beginning with a lively memoir of the author’s experiences in the ’60s, the book goes on to explore apocalyptic thinking through perennial philosophy, shamanism, gnostic mysticism, the body as a vessel of consciousness (and death as “an extended out-of-body experience”), and psychedelics. Shaping the discussion is the fascinating metaphor of the cracking tower, an apparatus for distilling gasoline, as a vehicle for distilling our awareness. Rather than speculating on what might occur in 2012, DeKorne proposes vigilance of a more introspective sort. “The important thing,” he says, “is to ignore the finger and strive to comprehend the moon,” to see what our apocalyptic tendencies reveal about ourselves. |
| Imprint Name: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Publisher Name: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-11-03 |
