James J. O'Meara

Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and The Miracle Club -- “Our spirituality has gotten too tame today. James J. O’Meara has a solution [in Mysticism After Modernism]: revive the tradition of the not-so-mad guru, the outlaw seeker, and the rebel swami. In this mosaic of profiles and netherworld journeys, you will encounter primal religious thinkers, from Alan Watts to a man called Neville, who seek, above all, to make the spiritual search powerful, practical, slightly dangerous, and bracingly relevant to the individual. Thank God.”

New Dawn: "[Mysticism after Modernism] could be seen as being itself an example of the subject of one of its essays, Burroughs’ cut-up technique, in which O’Meara slices up some sacred texts – and a few sacred cows as well – and rearranges them to suggest new pathways towards the Transcendent. When O’Meara cuts into the esoteric canon, it’s just possible that a bit of the Truth leaks out."

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