The Televisionary Oracle

by Rob Brezsny

Book Overview

Millions of people already live their lives in accordance with Rob Brezsny's "Real Astrology" prophecies. But the time has come for a deeper dose of Brezsny's brain. The Televisionary Oracle is an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583940006
• ISBN13: 9781583940006
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Frog in Well
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A psychedelic trip in a book

If you yearn for a spiritual connection to the universe, but find Zen meditation deathly-dull, check out Breszney's version of enlightenment. He believes that holiness can -- and should -- be sexy and fun. If you like your Goddess to be smart and deep but also silly and irreverent, Breszney might just speak to you. If you feel hostility toward things that violate your expectations, then this isn't the book for you.

The Original Multi-Sensual Funky Fantasmorgasm

I loved this book. While entertaining me, it taught me multitudes of lessons that I am still trying to assimilate. One of these lessons is that I must kill the apocalypse by loving it. I am in awe of this concept. While internalizing this dogma, I have learned that the alchemical process of taking in the bad stuff and melting it down to its purest, non-harmful form is truly a means to reach enlightenment. Everything that is perceived as negative has its uses and the energy therein must be harnessed to move forward. This book will change your life. Use it in everyday life, even if it's just to keep the kitchen table from tottering around, and you will notice a difference in your life.

Beauty and Truth are hip!

That's the message Rob wrote in my copy, and I was delighted to see it. The book is fulfilling on so many levels, and I am going to have to read it at least 5 more times before I will feel I have the full impact. Yet reading it is not a chore, but a delight. Small doses suited me best, as each section left me with something new to think about. It also left me smiling. I am telling everyone I know! Special note to fans of Robert Anton Wilson: this is your sorta thing!

Horror? Hope!

I am surprised to see the "Horror" genre attached to Rob's joyous, chunky, sexually affirmative novel of the future. The only horrifying thing about it is that it ends. A retelling of the Rapunzel myth, a direct and pungent insight into the life of a rockstar, and a weirdly beautiful exhortation to action, The Televisionary Oracle took me on a wild ride inside Rob's head, through his heart, and out through his sole(s). What impressed me most in this Tom Robbins-like romp were its deep philosophical underpinnings. Rob seems to be telling us -- amid mind- and gender-bending antics, sexual romps, and fairytale interludes -- that beauty and truth as just as compelling as nihilism and death. Nice idea for a new millennium.