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9781583941232
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Chapter 1 Bravo, Viva, Kudos, Whoopee, Eureka, Hallelujah, Abracadabra --
This is a Perfect Moment, Primordial Gossip 2 --
Glory in the Highest, Secrets of Pronoia 4 --
Experiment, Dionysian Manifesto 7 --
Dear Gorgeous Genius, Love Letter 9 --
Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 10 --
Chapter 2 When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean? --
Baby Wipe Communique, Medicine Story 12 --
Sacred Advertisement (Night vision goggles and Sharon Doubiago) 22 --
Your Inalienable Right to Fresh Omens, Guerrilla Oracle 23 --
Burn, Baby, Burn, Guerrilla Oracle 23 --
Free Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 24 --
Chapter 3 We're searching for the answers so we can destroy them and dream up better questions --
Luminous Tease, Love Letter 26 --
Evil Is Boring, Dionysian Manifesto 27 --
Sacred Advertisement (How to Start Your Own Country) 29 --
Subvert Colonialism, Guerrilla Oracle 30 --
Slam, Special Offer 31 --
I have a Dream, Primordial Gossip 32 --
Sacred Advertisement (Jung, Whitman, King) 33 --
Dreamy Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 34 --
Missing Everything, Guerrilla Oracle 35 --
What Is the Beauty and Truth Laboratory?, Medicine Story 36 --
Sacred Advertisement (Hand-loomed Turkish shower curtains) 39 --
Liberated for Your Use 40 --
Chapter 4 Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil --
Drowning in Love, Guerrilla Oracle 42 --
Universe Is Made of Stories, Dionysian Manifesto 43 --
Welcome to the Show, Primordial Gossip 45 --
PNN 1: Pronoia News Network 46 --
Gazing into the Abyss of Happiness, Dionysian Manifesto 50 --
Your Awakening Tree, Guerrilla Oracle 51 --
Sacred Advertisement (Ralph Waldo Emerson: Make your own Bible) 52 --
Unabashed Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 53 --
Sacred Advertisement ("All I ever wanted in life") 58 --
Chapter 5 Let's go wash some water --
Beyond Goodness, Guerrilla Oracle 60 --
A Dangerous Taboo, Secrets of Pronoia 61 --
Sacred Advertisement (Iroquois Thunderbird Clan) 64 --
Lazy Work, Guerrilla Oracle 65 --
Origins of the Homeopathic Medicine Spells, Secrets of Pronoia 66 --
Homeopathic Medicine Spell #1 67 --
World Kiss, Primordial Gossip 68 --
Volcanic Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 70 --
Sacred Advertisement (William Blake's poem) 71 --
Let's Make Morality Fun, Special Offer 72 --
How Pronoia Works, Secrets of Pronoia 73 --
Liberated for Your Use 74 --
Chapter 6 "I vow to interpret every experience as a direct dealing of the Goddess with my soul" --
What's the Most Important Question for You to Ask Today?, Love Letter 76 --
Bigger, Better, More Interesting Problems, Dionysian Manifesto 77 --
Sacred Advertisement (The mosquito that kept you up all night) 78 --
Intimate Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 79 --
PNN 2: Pronoia News Network 85 --
Rich Get Richer, Guerrilla Oracle 89 --
Sacred Advertisement (The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu) 90 --
Further Evidence, Special Offer 91 --
Sacred Advertisement (Boris Pasternak's poem) 92 --
Chapter 7 Everyone's a nobody-and nobody's perfect --
You are Almost Everything, Love Letter 94 --
Bin Laden's Wife's Bra, Guerrilla Oracle 95 --
Brain-Scrambling Meditation, Primordial Gossip 96 --
Reap the Benefits of Your Scrambled Brain, Primordial Gossip 98 --
Apocalypse Versus Apocalypse, Dionysian Manifesto 99 --
Sacred Advertisement (When you ate Peruvian figs) 101 --
Hype-Ocalypse, Dionysian Manifesto 102 --
Pronoia's Villains, Secrets of Pronoia 103 --
You're a Good Killer, Guerrilla Oracle 104 --
Ambidextrous Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 105 --
Homeopathic Medicine Spell #2 109 --
Liberated for Your Use 110 --
Chapter 8 When did you first realize you are the rain's teacher? --
Fear of Beauty?, Secrets of Pronoia 112 --
Shadow School, Dionysian Manifesto 113 --
Sacred Advertisement (The necessity of meeting God in darkness) 115 --
Flip-Flop the Traumatic Imprint, Medicine Story 116 --
Love Bomb, Primordial Gossip 117 --
Sacred Advertisement (Cock-a-doodle-doo) 118 --
Subterranean Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 119 --
Sacred Advertisement (The decisions you didn't make) 124 --
Your Sacred Advertisement 124 --
PNN 3: Pronoia News Network 125 --
Art Lessons, Guerrilla Oracle 130 --
Soaring and Scrounging, Guerrilla Oracle 130 --
Chapter 9 Visualize Put your deity's name here at the moment of orgasm --
All I Ask of You, Love Letter 132 --
What If Your Desires are Holy?, Dionysian Manifesto 133 --
Orgasmic Roots of Pronoia, Medicine Story 135 --
Sacred Advertisement (Sacred underwear) 144 --
Devotional Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 145 --
PNN 4: Pronoia News Network 149 --
Radical Everything, Guerrilla Oracle 154 --
Chapter 10 Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination --
Prayer for You, Love Letter 156 --
Four Dignities of the Warrior's Path, Guerrilla Oracle 159 --
Crimes that Don't Break Any Laws, Primordial Gossip 160 --
Crimes that Don't Break Any Laws: The Theory, Primordial Gossip 163 --
Do-It-Yourself Prank, Primordial Gossip 164 --
Perils of Enchantment, Guerrilla Oracle 165 --
Receptivity Remedies, Dionysian Manifesto 166 --
Your Chalice, Special Offer 170 --
You are a Disseminator of Pronoia, Secrets of Pronoia 171 --
PNN 5: Pronoia News Network 172 --
Flexible Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 177 --
Sacred Advertisement (Atheist prayer) 181 --
Liberated for Your Use 182 --
Chapter 11 Stronger than hate, wetter than water, deeper than the abyss, more exotic than trust --
Tummler and Ondinnonk, Love Letter 184 --
Welcome Home, Primordial Gossip 185 --
Sacred Advertisement (Titian painting) 186 --
Confess Your Fundamentalist Virus, Primordial Gossip 187 --
Limits of Interweaving, Guerrilla Oracle 188 --
More Accidental, The More True, Dionysian Manifesto 189 --
Raucous Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 191 --
Homeopathic Medicine Spell #3 196 --
The 80 Percent Rule, Dionysian Manifesto 197 --
Sacred Advertisement (Deena Metzger's prayer) 198 --
Chapter 12 This language prevents crime, This engineering moves you to sing, These advertisements make you smart, These rhythms free all prisoners of childhood --
Your Horoscope, Love Letter 200 --
Surrender to the Conspiracy, Guerrilla Oracle 201 --
How I Got Started in the Beauty and Truth Business, Medicine Story 202 --
Sacred Advertisement (Telepathics Anonymous) 207 --
Dreamtime University, Dionysian Manifesto 208 --
Your Dreams, Dionysian Manifesto 210 --
Sacred Advertisement (Chris Rock's testimony) 211 --
PNN 6: Pronoia News Network 212 --
Easy Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 218 --
Chapter 13 The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God, The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself --
Your Sledgehammer and Watercolor Brush, Love Letter 220 --
Sacred Uproar, Secrets of Pronoia 221 --
Do-It-Yourself Pronoia, Secrets of Pronoia 223 --
Evil Fears Laughter, Dionysian Manifesto 224 --
Homeopathic Medicine Spell #4 226 --
Science of the Invisible, Dionysian Manifesto 227 --
22nd-Century Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 230 --
PNN 7: Pronoia News Network 236 --
How is Enlightenment Like a Million-Dollar Vacation Home?, Guerrilla Oracle 241 --
Exemption from Enlightenment, Special Offer 242 --
Chapter 14 You Are a Fucking Lucky Plucky Good-Sucking Genius --
It's Bad Luck to Be Superstitious, Love Letter 244 --
Persona Turnover, Guerrilla Oracle 245 --
Your Brand New Name, Special Offer 246 --
I'm a Star, You're a Star, Dionysian Manifesto 247 --
I'm a Brat, You're a Brat, Dionysian Manifesto 249 --
Sacred Advertisement (Carl Jung about Jesus) 249 --
You're a Prophet, Dionysian Manifesto 250 --
Your Prophecies, Dionysian Manifesto 251 --
Homeopathic Medicine Spell #5 252 --
I Me Wed, Primordial Gossip 253 --
Liberated for Your Use 256 --
Chapter 15 "Ever since I learned to see three sides of every story, I'm finding much better stories" --
Your Graduation Inscription, Love Letter 258 --
PNN 8: Pronoia News Network 259 --
For Immediate Release, Premium Bonus Benefit 265 --
Sacred Advertisement, (Imaginary lightning Bolts) 266 --
Anti-DSM-IV, or The Outlaw Catalog of Cagey Optimism, Premium Bonus Benefit 267 --
Sacred Advertisement ("I Don't Know") 270 --
Outlaw Pronoia Therapy, Pronoia Therapy 271 --
Walking Uphill Backward, Secrets of Pronoia 275 --
Invitation to the Dance, Special Offer 276 --
Your Assignment, Guerrilla Oracle 277 --
Author's Thanks 278 --
About Rob Brezsny 278 --
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Sacred Advertisement ("May you get what you want and still want it") 296.
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