After the Absolute: The Inner Teachings of Richard Rose
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Richard Rose was an unlikely Zen master A rugged plainspoken ornery West Virginian he scraped out a living raising goats planting crops and painting houses But Richard Rose had a secret Having once vowed to find the Truth or die trying Rose experienced a
cataclysmic spiritual awakening at agethat thrust him into Everythingness and Nothingness or what he called the Absolute The experience left him with only one earthly desire to do anything for anyone on a similar quest for TruthDavid Gold was an unlikely student An arrogant ambitious and egotistical lawstudent Gold only agreed to meet the enlightened hillbilly in the hopes of showing him up But when Rose turned the tables by seeing right through Gold and painting a devastatingly accurate picture of the fears and obsessions that ruled his life a humbled Gold found himself hungry to know moreThus began a remarkable year adventurepart spiritual odyssey part legal thrillerin which death threats corrupt politicians and lifethreatening cancer run parallel to glimpses of the divine and extraordinary manifestations of timeless wisdomAfter the Absolute is one of the most gripping intensely interesting dramatic and indeed romanticheroicmythic yet poignantly human accounts I have ever read It would make a fantastic if unbelievable film and is a profoundly important document This book throws light on the perennial whatandwhy enigma of our species reveals the makings of a new cosmology and surely gives glimpses into asyet undeveloped potentials we humans hold within us That all this is found in an utterly absorbing narrative proves the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction Joseph Chilton Pearce author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and Magical Child