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Date Posted: 16:01:39 03/06/00 Mon
Author: gill
Subject: Re: best unknown new novel
In reply to: mirl troid 's message, "best unknown new novel" on 09:28:45 02/29/00 Tue

I've heard of this book and only good things have been said. Thanks for link. I look forward to reading it.

> The most widely read and hotly debated book since
> "Catcher in the Rye" is likely to be "One Hand
> Clapping" by M. William Wythe. Based on the true story
> of an escaped mental patient who earned a doctorate in
> psychology by turning his own case study into a
> modern-day fable about a fool who becomes wise, OHC is
> a parable about freeing our minds from the illusions
> that imprison us. Protagonist Mauris Wangler's quest
> for the perfect orgasm serves as a metaphor for what
> Carl Jung called the innate human urge for
> self-transcendence. The author plays cat and mouse
> with this theme throughout.
>
> A witty, honest, gritty, sexy, and extremely
> engrossing tale, OHC exposes one of life's
> little-known secrets: Nobody knows reality. Why is
> that important? As commerce and technology continue to
> dissolve the borders between countries, a clash of
> culturally conditioned worldviews will dominate our
> efforts to build the kind of global consensus
> necessary to solve problems that are increasingly
> international in scope. As long as everyone believes
> that their god, their ideology, their reality is the
> only true one, we have no basis on which to form a
> consensus. Until we overthrow this tyranny of the
> mind, this inability to see beyond the borders of our
> own perspective, the politics of reality will continue
> to divide us.
>
> The antidote to the madness that plays out every
> evening on the news is widespread realization of the
> fact that our minds act as filters, making reality
> into what we think we see. In One Hand Clapping, Wythe
> challenges the hidden lie behind that curtain we call
> reality, demonstrating just how unreliable our
> perceptions can be. His conclusion: We all have the
> freedom to change our perception of reality. That's
> how we change the world.
>
> Here's the link:
> <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583483225/qid%3">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583483225/qid%3</a>
> D936034573/103-1857890-1267049

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