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• Televisionary Oracle
Rob Brezsny

Frog Books, 2000 - 483 pages

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A benevolent prank

Robert Anton Wilson talks about how what we really need on this planet are six billion different religions: six billion names for God. Likewise, I think every author should have the right to his or her own unique genre. Stephen King and Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac and Rob Brezsny shouldn't all be forced to share the title of "novelist."

It's true that "The Televisionary Oracle" has storylines that resemble the kind of plots found in what are typically called "novels." But the book is really more of a memoir, or rather a double memoir narrated by a hero and heroine who take turns unveiling their improbable yet engaging life stories.

The book is also stuffed with a host of other genres: oracles that manage to be both dead serious and wryly wacky; lucid dreams that purport to cast spells on world political leaders; spiritually correct porn; philosophical treatises that are utterly lunatic and crisply logical; and prophecies allegedly delivered by a descendant of Nostradamus' cook. It counsels the reader on how to avoid being victimized by the genocide of the imagination, offers an enthusiastic endorsement of St. Paul's creed, "I die daily," and outlines techniques by which you can "kill the apocalypse." There's even a covert guidebook called "A Feminist Man's Guide to Picking Up Women."

The book definitely isn't for everyone. There's not a single murder, violent act, rape, crashed car, attempted suicide, outbreak of drug abuse, terminal illness, arson, or crime. That alone will make it taboo to more than half the population. But I'm insane enough to think that beauty, truth, justice, liberation, pleasure, and demented acts of benevolent trouble can be interesting, which is why I loved "The Televisionary Oracle."


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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.









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Like a space shuttle balancing upon the petal of a daisy

Ok. I read this book a while ago and have intended to write a review ever since. First, I think trying to judge this book as a novel is like trying to hold water using a ladle full of holes. From a narrow technical perspective, yes, this book qualifies as a "novel," in that it follows the life and happenings of some fictional, groovy-to-earth demi-goddess named Rapunzel - but it is simultaneously an autobiography, a metaphysical treatise, and 400+ pages of perpetually palpitating poetry(and fully lubricated with the richest, most mellifluous cosmic spunk). Seriously, what sense is there in evaluating a book as a novel when it is equal parts autobiography? This book does not abide modestly in any one genre; it is a linguistic maelstrom that strobes and flickers within a system of genres with no clear locus save Spirit itself.

The extent to which this book(and Free Will Astrology - sign up for the free weekly email! Now!) has altered my perception of reality cannot go understated. Rob Brezsny is a man traversing the furthest frontiers of human nature. If you are capable of regarding this book as an experiment with what it means to be a human being, then you may be able to appreciate it. I am serious when I say that Tel.Or. could be a textbook for students of consciousness studies.

It also helps to dig poetry. On the level of language, this book transcends so many linguistic dimensions that I am unwilling to say any more on the subject.

Appreciating this book is also greatly abetted by an appreciation of spiritual experiences. Brezsny is unquestionably an immensely spiritual man, and this pours into his writing like twenty-three Biblical floods. The whole notion of the author/reader dichotomy is thoroughgoingly minced.



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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 archetypal roller-coaster that would make Rumi dizzy and leave Carl Jung gasping for breath.



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