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- Author : Richard Grossinger
- Binding : Paperback
- Creator : Mary Stark
- Creator : Rob Brezsny
- Creator : Robert Kelly
- EAN : 9781556437007
- ISBN : 1556437005
- Label : North Atlantic Books
- Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
- Manufacturer : North Atlantic Books
- Number Of Items : 1
- Number Of Pages : 552
- Package Dimensions : 1.70 inches (Height) x 8.40 inches (Length) x 1.45 pounds (Weight) x 5.40 inches (Width)
- Product Group : Book
- Publication Date : 2008-04-29
- Publisher : North Atlantic Books
- Release Date : 2008-04-29
- SKU : 749781556437007
- Studio : North Atlantic Books
An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger’s The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more "mundane issues" including genetic theory, the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's presidency, North Korea, advertising, global warming, Prison Industrial Culture, childhood trauma, even country western music. Written with playfulness and precision, Bardo takes a new, probing approach to all the important questions of creation, destruction, and existence. In these intellectual field notes, Grossinger proves thematically fearless as he crosses quantum mechanics with totemic hexes and draws transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. If, as Tibetan cosmology holds true, all conditional realms are bardos, then the state we all share is nothing less than the bardo of waking life.
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