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In Search of the New Age: A Humorous Look at an Emerging Culture - Softcover

Kilham, Christopher S.

 
9780892812097: In Search of the New Age: A Humorous Look at an Emerging Culture

Synopsis

Can the New Age laugh at itself? You'll find out as Felix Bliss and his editorial team guide us through the lighter side of the New Age, taking an irreverant look at its personalities, its products and services, its culture, and its trips.

Whether you're interested in filing for soul mate divorce or obtaining your favorite Akashic records on CD, In Search of the New Age is your key to the best--and most entertaining--New Age Resources. Discover reincarnation life insurance, do-it-yourself firewalking, astral projection tours, and more.

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About the Authors

Christopher S. Kilham has taught yoga, meditation, and natural health since 1978. Known for his appearances as the Medicine Hunter on the Dr. Oz Show, CNN Health, and FOX News Health, he has conducted medicinal research in more than 30 countries across 5 continents and the South Pacific. The author of many articles and several books, including Hot Plants, The Five Tibetans, Kava: Medicine Hunting in Paradise, and The Whole Food Bible, he lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.

The illustrator, Robert Engman, is the creative director of Mind Over Media (MOM), an advertising and marketing company, and lives in Western Massachusetts.

Reviews

Intended to be a funny, irreverent guide to the products, services, activities, philosophies and personalities of New Age culture, Kilham's work elicits a few smiles and an occasional giggle, but mostly groans. The author of Stalking the Wild Orgasm has a brand of humor that tends to be heavy-handed ("Beyond Firewalking: Huna Lava Surfing," "Hypocrite's Health Spa," "Tibetan Boozism: Out on a Binge"), scatological ("Reverend Flung Dung Loon and the Loonies," "Crystal Enemas: Light Up the Darkness!," "Sacred Feces") and sophomoric (a list of herbal products includes Long Dong Wow, a restorative for men, the diuretic Pee Man Cok and Toe Jamm Goo, a salve for athlete's foot). Many of his targets are dated ("Wormer Airhead and the Airhead Seminar Training AST," "I'm O.K. but You're Not"), and he misses the mark entirely on others ("acupuncher" as delivered by Dr. Sugar Ray Chang is a "blinding fast roundhouse to the temple . . . especially good for anesthesia"). Illustrated. $75,000 ad/promo; author tour.
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