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Summary: Chapter 12 is worth the price of the book!
Review: This book was fairly disappointing as mostly it was a rehash of material found in Ken's earlier books (which is still good stuff if you've never read it): The great chain of being, the pre-trans fallacy, the 4 quadrants, etc...The real value of this book lies in Chapter 12 where Ken gives "pointing out" instructions for the non-dual which are really excellent. I would recommend the book for that chapter alone.
Rating: 
Summary: A good one to "loan" to your friends...
Review: when you're tired of trying to explain why you don't believe in the Star Trek universe anymore. I recently re-read this one after a few years and it's a toss-up whether you need it if you have "A Brief History of Everything". I find Wlber drags after a while although I do admit he has captured a lot of information for further exploration within both books. The question is: do you read the references for yourself or rely on Ken's interpretation?I've loaned this to a lot of people and it appears to be a good "starter" book to initiate some of de Bono's non-lateral thinking in people. Unfortunately I find some of Ken's views to be...well, a bit in an infant stage still, almost as if he needed to get them on paper just to prove he could. Funny to get the feeling of an ego-trip from someone with such a strong Eastern background; perhaps the tone just comes from the impatience of trying to "translate" ideas and concepts into our rock-solid Aristotelian logical framework. Anyone wondering about the validity of our conceptual framework should really read some of Perlovsky's papers. All in all, a good book of ideas that could have, in my opinion, used a bit of softer hand on the tone. If you have Brief History then I don't really think you must have this one.
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