The 99th Monkey A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments

Suffused with a unique brand of irreverent humour, this account recalls the autobiographical explorations of the most significant alternative communities, ashrams, gurus, shamans, and consciousness-raising seminars of the past 40 years. Serving as a human guinea pig for many of the most popular cutting-edge, New Age, human-potential, and spiritual experiments, Eliezer Sobel recounts intercontinental adventures in India, Israel, Brazil, and Haiti. From Primal Therapy to the Dalai Lama, this perceptively witty analysis includes brushes with cults, wild experiments with sex and psychedelics, and encounters with visionary gurus and contemporary madmen.

Eliezer Sobel is the award-winning author of Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in a World That Is Heartbroken and the publisher of Wild Heart Journal. His articles, short stories, and poetry have appeared in Inner Directions Journal, New Age Journal, Quest, The Village Voice, and Yoga Journal. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.