NEW FROM ELIEZER SOBEL!
"Thankfully, Sobel's utter failure to get enlightened
is chronicled with laughter, irreverence,
insight and raw truth.”
--Gabrielle Roth,
author of Sweat Your Prayers
“...funny, beautifully written, and often extremely
moving and thought-provoking.”
--Colin Wilson,
author of The Outsider
“...a must read for anyone interested in the phenomenon
of spiritual growth in the West over the past forty years.”
--Rabbi David A. Cooper,
author of God a is a Verb
"...balancing between wisdom and absurdity,
Eliezer Sobel provides a generous contribution to
countercultural history.”
--Paul Krassner,
author of One Hand Jerking
“By all means follow The 99th Monkey down the road
apiece that passeth understanding. It looks like big fun.”
--Wavy Gravy,
author of Something Good for a Change
"This book made me happier than most of the
spiritual books I read these days. Enjoy."
--Wes `Scoop’ Nisker, author of
The Big Bang, The Buddha, & the Baby Boom
Eliezer Sobel’s 99th Monkey is a cult hit here in NYC!”
--Charley Wininger, L.P.
FROM PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
While a romp through the New Age is not everyone's cup of tea, novelist, publisher and editor Sobel (Minyan) does a fine job making his 30-year quest for spiritual awakening widely identifiable with a funny, clear-eyed account that takes readers around the world and through a gauntlet of gurus, shamans, workshops and retreats, not to mention sex and drugs (legal and otherwise). Sobel's twin assets are his willingness and his sense of humor, both apparent from the start in his encounter with a guru named Ram Dass, whose first instruction to Sobel is to take off his pants ("So I did"). Other episodes include Primal Therapy training with a teacher who rents his office space for porn production, the "est" training that teaches people to accept reality as it is (and then rope everyone they know into the program), and tours through Jerusalem, India and Brazil. Sobel's spiritual journey doesn't provide any answers (these days, the title on his business card is "Human Being") but provides lots of engaging, regular-guy perspective on modern man's confounding array of ancient and contemporary fulfillment schemes.
Eliezer Sobel is also the author of MINYAN: Ten Jewish Men in a World That is Heartbroken, which was the winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, as well as WILD HEART DANCING. His short-story MORDECAI’S BOOK won the New MIllennium Writings First Prize for fiction. He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife, Shari Cordon, and three cats: Squarcialupi, Peanut, and Plum.
