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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781556438165
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.
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