Author Description

Decades before Oprah and PBS brought New Age spirituality into our living rooms, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters drove Eastern Mysticism onto main street in their psychedelic Magic Bus.A new way of looking at reality, their carnival ride cross country celebrated life without restraints. This '60s party bus wasn't a one-night stand without repercussions, but a pregnant idea which would grow to undermind the theistic pillars of Western society.This book is not another compare/contrast of conflicting worldviews, but a though nuts-and-bolts look under the hood of the Bus to bring daylight to the East's occluded, esoteric claims.The author practiced Eastern and Western disciplines, each for over twenty-five years. As a friend and avid student of both, his initial, youthful quest was neither to solve an ancient riddle nor untie a Gordian-like know, merely to "find himself." What he found is found nowhere else--the identity of the "Force," the mysterious "God within."And though this mystery is what mystics say it is, it is not what they imagine it to be.After millennia of being hidden behind an impenetrable veil, why now? Like gold laying on the surface, the Mystery's resolution has been obvious all along.