[Buddha-l] crazy wisdom

[ralf.steckel at online.ms]

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> Hmm.  Whatever Bowie's interest in Buddhism is, this seems unlikely.  Bowie
> was born in 1947 and lived with his parents in Bromley, nr London, until he
> was 18.  According to at least one source, he first visited the States in
> 1971.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Steve Hopkins
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Dear Buddhist discussion forum,

because the discussion about 'crazy wisdoms' meanwhile includes comments about the influence of buddhist teachings to contemporary and not too long passed away Pop Culture i hope my request is not completely off-topic...

Is Ken Goffman's/Dan Joy's book 'Counter Culture through the Ages'/'From Abraham to Acid House' suitable to fresh up an 'Old European's ' knowledge about the anglo-saxon and especially the US american Pop Culture of the Sixties and Seventies?

Tanks in advance,

Ralf

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Contents:

Foreword by Timothy Leary

Preface by Dan Joy

Dis/Orientation by R. U. Sirius
PART I: THE MAKINGS OF COUNTERCULTURES
CHAPTER ONE
ABRAHAM AND PROMETHEUS: Mythic Counterculture Rebels
CHAPTER TWO
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF HUMAN EXCELLENCE: Defining Counterculture
PART II: ACROSS THE SPAN OF TIMES AND PLACES
CHAPTER THREE
POLITICALLY INCORRECT: Socrates and the Socratic Counterculture
CHAPTER FOUR
LEAP INTO THE BOUNDLESS: Taoism
CHAPTER FIVE
THE HAND THAT STOPPED THE MIND: The Zen Counterculture
CHAPTER SIX
LOVE AND EVOLUTION: The Occult Counterculture of the Sufis
CHAPTER SEVEN
REMAKING LOVE: The Troubadours and the Heretic Spirit of Provence
CHAPTER EIGHT
CULTURAL AND POLITICAL REVOLUTION: The Enlightenment of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
CHAPTER NINE
TO EACH HIS OWN GOD: The American Transcendentalists
CHAPTER TEN
BRILLIANT STORMS OF LAUGHTER: Bohemian Paris, 1900 � 1940
PART III: AFTER HIROSHIMA, �THE� COUNTERCULTURE
CHAPTER ELEVEN
REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE: The 1950s
CHAPTER TWELVE
WHEN YOU CHANGE WITH EVERY NEW DAY: The Youth Counterculture, 1960 - 1967
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
WILD IN THE STREETS: The Youth Counterculture, 1968 � 1972
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL ME MAKES ME HIPPER: The Hedonist/Nihilist Countercultures of the 1970s
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
GLOBAL. DIGITAL. DOOMED?: Counterculture Leans into the Future

URL: http://www.counterculturethroughtheages.com/