The Huff Post Review of SSIG

Wafers! This just in:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van-buren/morris-berman-spinning-straw-into-gold_b_3822936.html

Enjoy!

-mb

Dark Day for America

It's no-holds-barred now, my friends:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bradley_manning_and_the_gangster_state_20130821/

Not much else to say.

Interview with the Atlantic Monthly

Dear Wafers/Waferettes:

This was for the online edition of The Atlantic, on the occasion of the publication of Spinning Straw Into Gold. Hope you enjoy it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/how-americas-culture-of-hustling-is-dark-and-empty/278601/

CTOS Is Back!

Dear Wafers, and Waferettes:

I'm happy to report that the second volume of my evolution of consciousness trilogy, Coming to Our Senses, is finally back in a re-issued edition. For those of you who never read it, and think you might want to, this is now do-able. Link as follows:

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Our-Senses-Spirit-History/dp/096641683X/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375795620&sr=1-12&keywords=morris+berman

Enjoy!

Kim's Buttocks Are The Future

Wafers: We're moving into a whole new phase now. Existential Strain, SSIG, and finally, Kim's Rump! The future is bright...

http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com/2013/07/29/episode-64-straw-gold/

http://www.MoveOverGeorge.com

Peace and Love, amigos-

mb

SSIG, At Last

Dear Wafers/Waferettes:

Well, maybe miracles still do occur, in this modern age. SSIG finally made it onto Amazon and is available for purchase. They left out the endorsements part (below), but I'm assuming these will show up before too long. This sure has been a long time in coming. Hope you all enjoy it...mb

http://www.amazon.com/Spinning-Straw-Into-Gold-Straight/dp/1893075168/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374933437&sr=1-16&keywords=morris+berman

Praise for Morris Berman and Spinning Straw Into Gold

Over the decades, Morris Berman has provided readers with compelling books whose topics range from spiritual awareness to probing analysis of America’s decline. In Spinning Straw Into Gold he explores his own life trajectory as he stepped away from society’s traditional demands and measures of meaning, and found what was truly meaningful instead. The result is a powerful, timely, and mind-opening challenge for all of us to do the same.

—Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage, Black Tuesday, and other works.

For years Morris Berman has been describing the downfall of America, an argument that shocked many by its apparent pessimism. But a sensitive reader will have discerned a very positive message at the bottom of his recent trilogy on the American decline: that we are the last survivors of a failed empire, and will witness the emergence of a better, more balanced relation to the world from the ruins of its destructive manias and obsessions. Berman writes in the tradition of Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd, Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom, and the mother lode of all such individual wisdom in America, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This is not your typical self-help manual, but a clear-headed, translucently reasoned account of how one individual broke free from a dysfunctional culture and now gives us a way to accomplish the same liberation for ourselves.

—Paul Christensen, author of The Human Condition and Strangers in Paradise.