Utter Madness

This book explores the religious phenomenon referred to as crazy wisdom - the purposefully outrageous, convention destroying behaviour of spiritual adepts in every great tradition, from Christian Fools for Christ through the Sufi Path of Blame, to the charismatic leaders of new religions. The author explores the core of the spiritual process through eight critical in-depth cameos of holy madness in action in the lives of eight contemporaries, including Chgyam Trungpa, Bhagwan Rajneesh and Aleister...

Revels in Madness provides a history of Western culture''s shifting understandings of insanity as evidenced in its literature and as influenced by medical knowledge at any given time.'

""Reefer Madness "expertly and entertainingly charts the course of the killer weed from Colonial hemp crops to the present proliferation of pot as the biggest underground industry since bootleg booze."--"Playboy""Everything you always wanted to know about the history of grass in America--but were too stoned to ask." --Gene Schoenfeld, M.D. ("Dr. Hip"), author of" Dear Dr. Hippocrates""Ounce of ounce, Reefer Madness packs more highs than a pound of sinsemilla."--Frank Fioramonti, NORML board of directors...