" ... a major work ... an intellectual and cultural tour de force. Loutzenhiser's] range in the world of the metaphysicians is sure. His] sections on the arts are] most penetrating and offer original ideas and insights." -Edward Bruce Bynum, author of "The African Unconscious," Director of Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Amherst

"I was impressed with the range of issues and thinkers covered ... It is a rare thinker who can find the thread that connects hegelian phenomenology, transpersonal psychology, holonic theory, the chakra system, the prose] of Jack Kerouac and...