- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: New Falcon Publications; Revised edition (Feb 1 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1561840041
- ISBN-13: 978-1561840045
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.2 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 358 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #350,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Dazzling, the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway of higher consciousness." -- Tom Robbins
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The spelling of the title is not a mistake. It includes: "Dance through Religion for the Hell of It"; "The Physics of Synchronicity"; James Joyce and Finnegan's "Wake"; "The Godfather and the Goddess"; "The Poet as Early Warning Radar"; "Mammary Metaphysics"; "The Married Catholic Priests Convention"; and much, much more...
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Perhaps no novelist in history has been as concerned with synchronicity as James Joyce. Read the first page
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2.0 out of 5 stars
one of wilson's worst,
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This review is from: Coincidance: A Head Test (Paperback)
This is as bad as R. A. Wilson's nonfiction gets (though his fiction can get even worse). Most of these "essays" are self-indulgent and border on the literally meaningless, like the obscure and unmusical poetry he writes. Wilson, who claims he is beyond all models of reality, is in fact a True Believer in synchronicity (the theme of the book), Aleister Crowley and plenty of other occult hogwash. And as is always the case, he has not a single original idea of his own--all he does is re-state the works of others in his own superior prose. Go read Cosmic Trigger or Quantum Psychology and leave this one alone.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great essays by the master of schizo-prose,
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This review is from: Coincidance: A Head Test (Paperback)
Many of Wilson's books have been accused of being mere fodder for his personal philosophy, incorporating the same jokes and the same sermons into a barely recognizable plot. That is not true, but much of what attracts people to his books is the way that he makes people see things in different perspectives.This book has essays on physics, Sade, and Joyce. Both Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake are explained in ways that actually make a person want to read the books, while the Marquis de Sade is given his due as the master of disturbing literature. What makes this book worthwhile for me is the essay on Tennessee Williams comparing him to Sade. I don't remember the play that he is discussing, nor does American Theatre for that matter, but what stands out is a praise for Williams as a true artist - "An artist must put out questions and let the audience figure it out for themselves. An artist is not there to provide the answers. Arthur Miller is not an artist because he spoonfeeds the answers to you. In every play Miller is running for elected office." I am paraphrasing but in that one argument, I managed to crystalize and express all my doubts about political art - including agitprop, "identity art" and sermons disguised as plays. I knew that I hated these types of artistic expressions, but I always felt like I should like them especially when they agreed with my political philosophy. For that alone, this book is worth buying. You have a 90% chance of finding something in this work that states a constantly debated point so clearly that you wonder why it wasn't said this way to begin with.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just a thought-,
By A Customer
This review is from: Coincidance: A Head Test (Paperback)
Learning Shakespear in High School is all part of the government military/industrial mind control program. It is designed to train the analytical/suspicious mind to deal with intra-relational problems and analize them instead of attempting to analize societal problems as a whole. This technique is continuated into adulthood by the use of soap opera scripts. The mechanism for the brain and thought programming is extremely subtle but profused in such rampant abundance which effectively renders overwhelming impact upon the unsuspecting. It has gone as far as to dictate laws for grammar and sentence structure. It seems disconnected from the theory but you will realize that speach or sentence structure is thought. Therefore by controlling sentence structure, your thought structure is also being controlled. Long run on sentences provoke deep drawn out thought on creative concepts.
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