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- Steve Jobs — On Daniel Kottke's list of books he and Jobs read together 1972–74, presented at the 2015 Dent Conference source ↗
Summary
Paul Williams's counterculture spiritual manifesto from the early 1970s, written in a poetic, aphoristic style that blends Eastern mysticism, psychedelic experience, and existential philosophy. The book presents a vision of universal consciousness and the illusion of the separate self, arguing that the experience of 'energy' — the underlying unity of all existence — is the fundamental reality beneath all religious and metaphysical systems.