Hi--Jim invited me to promote my new book here, a humorous spiritual memoir based on the premise that I am single-handedly preventing the global paradigm shift through my long history of resistance and inability to transform despite 30 years of intensive seeking. (Unlike those Self-Help authors who seem to find a magic solution, I've actually asked bookstores to create a new category called "No Help Whatsoever.") As my friend Eddie Greenberg says, I remain pretty much the "same old schmuck" at the end of my story as I was at the beginning.

It's called:

The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics
and Other Consciousness-Raising Adventures

You can read the prologue here to see if it interests you:

http://www.the99thmonkey.com

Thanks! Eliezer

Hi Eliezer and welcome to the garden...

An interesting prologue for sure....

Do check out founders Mike French blog - The view from here....his site encourages book promotion and is full of literary interviews and such like.....

So, do tell - why 99 monkeys AND where did you find GO! Smell the flowers?

(I think I did a search for "spiritual blogs" and found this site.)

The 99th Monkey is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the well-known, and sometimes debunked, 100th Monkey syndrome, a phenomenon similar to "The Tipping Point," which describes how paradigm shifts occur in the culture after a "critical mass" of agreement is reached. It refers to an event that happened on an island in Japan in the '50s regarding the habits of the monkey population there: one monkey discovered that if she washed her daily diet of sweet potatoes in the water, they tasted much better, and the practice began to spread. When a critical mass of monkeys adopted the practice--say 99--the next monkey tipped the scales and monkeys all over the island, as well as neighboring islands where none of them had ever witnessed the practice, began spontaneously washing their potatoes as well.

So as the 99th monkey, if I continue resisting personal transformation, I'm gumming up the works for the whole planet!

Subvert the dominent paradigm!
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The book sounds terrific and I'll be adding a copy to my library soon.

And I like the look of your book before - Minyan - thanks for contacting me Eliezer
and I look forward to getting the book!

I sent it out the other day MIke, thanks.

Do keep us posted on the progress of 99 monkeys eliezering.

We love the title!

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