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The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation

Wes "Scoop" Nisker

3.61 · Rating details · 59 ratings · 4 reviews

Some deep alternative current has begun flowing out of the spiritual adventures and identity struggles of recent generations. Of course, we didn't create the conditions or questions of this new age; we got caught in them. The ground shifted, the old gods departed, the economic and political utopias crumbled, and the traditional answers were washed away. We didn't leave hom ...more

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Published May 1st 2013 by Iro Books (first published March 2003)

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Aug 02, 2011 Paul Kotheimer rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I'm a bit tired of all the glorification the late 60s receive, and this book continues to pile it on. Of course, Nisker makes the clear point that most of the hippies later became the most greedy, destructive ***holes ever to grace the face of the planet. The message is to live more simply, I guess. I enjoyed this book and would especially recommend to someone who was new to eastern philosophies or the countercultures of the past 50 years, because a lot of the material is basic and covered elsew ...more

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May 28, 2008 captain america rated it liked it · review of another edition

probably more enjoyable if you're a boomer since we never get tired of reading about how wonderful we were. by now every boomer thinks they were personally present for king, kennedy and kent state. bah, humbug.

i picked this up for the chapters on nisker's zen socialist platform which although it seems Swiftian is actually a great program for undoing how we've managed to fuck up the planet.

examples: the US resigns as a superpower, institutes disassembly lines to take apart machinery and roads & ...more

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Jan 25, 2017 Simona rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2014

Another ex-hippie tells his story. This one is more political and environmental. He has a lot of great ideas on why we feel displaced in this country, how we can feel more connected, etc. Good view on what the boomers went through. The importance of spirituality and what happens in its absence. The relationship between modern science and the Western Spirituality Movement.

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