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Title: Sophomoric and Pseudo-Intellectual
Review: I saw this book in a list of new titles in a friend's e-mail and thought the title was interesting, so I bought it. I have read widely in this area and was looking forward to some new thinking about the subject. However, this self-proclaimed "hot tub journalist" is merely evangelizing his own twisted brand of Buddhism and Scientism. He is naively unaware of most of the dynamic developments in his field, and his condescending "we all know better, don't we" style is full of ironic put-downs and was at times annoying but mostly just boring. He has selected from the scientific literature only that which supports his thinly-veiled belief system, and these gross distortions are obvious to anyone familiar with the subject matter. If you want to read something good on the subject, I recommend you forget this lightweight and check out some books by Ken Wilber.
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