Bottom Line Answers to Ultimate Questions

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BOTTOM LINE ANSWERS TO ULTIMATE QUESTIONS


"To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge of things." This dictum, attributed to Chuang Tzu circa 300 BC, is more relevant than ever today. Research gathered from various directions has shown far too many people, from all walks of life, remain content with a limited input of knowledge, relying on what they glean from mass media, what they learned in school, and sermons from their local church. Has our system of "higher education" improved things? For centuries hundreds of our colleges and universities have issued a steady flow of graduates, yet the world is still stumbling along the edge of chaos of war, economic strife, unnecessary famine, and slipping further toward ecological disaster everyday. Evidently formal schooling doesn’t produce the substantially knowledgeable men and women we need. It is painfully clear our political and corporate leaders have not only failed to accomplished anything of real cultural significance, they have actually fostered an extensive stream of incompetence that now flows throughout the entire economic/political structure.

According to Lew Paz, author of the recently published book, PUSHING ULTIMATES: Fundamentals of Authentic Self-knowledge, the solution to this predicament begins with an approach to the quest for genuine wisdom centered around the cultivation of self-knowledge. As Socrates clarified, to "know thyself" is the most significant task of all, and Paz presents us with ways and means to go about this task. His remarkable book takes us on a challenging and enriching spiritual journey encompassing both prehistory and history of consciousness, skillfully weaving mysticism, theology, alchemy, psychology, philosophy, quantum physics, neurology, anthropology, music, art, into meaningful and relevant patterns of clarification. Throughout this amazing odyssey, Paz never loses sight of the central theme – the quest to realize bottom line truths concerning our place amid the wild wonder of it all, and he accomplishes this without succumbing to New Age credulity or sterile scientific skepticism.

Paz set out forty years ago to pursue a life of Zorba the Greek adventure merged with Socratic questioning of all knowledges, which developed into a spiritual quest of the most compelling sort. Years of hard road travel over half the earth, including countless sunup to sunset days in libraries great and small, deeply delving for truth and wisdom, has given him the ability to transfer scholarly and esoteric knowledges into layman’s terms. PUSHING ULTIMATES is a "must read" for anyone seeking firm cohesive answers to ultimate questions.


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Book Statistics:
ISBN 13: 978-0-9773733-9-0
ISBN 10: 0-9773733-9-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005909020
Dimensions: 5.38" x 8.38"
Trade Paperback
Length: 400 pages
Manufactured by Tri-State Litho