• Games for the Soul: Drew Leder puts the accent on playfulness of the soul as he covers lightening up, going with the flow, surrender, nonproductivity, and joy.
  • Deep Play: Diane Ackerman dips, swoops, and glides from art to religion to sports to nature for illustrative material on the enchantments of deep play.
  • God Is No Laughing Matter: Julia Cameron revives the lively tradition of crazy wisdom relished by Zen masters, Native American tricksters, and holy fools in her book of observations and objections on the spiritual path.
  • Put on a Happy Face: Cooper Edens and Richard Kehl's cheery little volume that provides a passport into the land of playfulness and glad tidings.
  • Sacred Necessities: Terry Hershey explores playful qualities of the soul that go against the cultural grain and provide meaning to spiritual people.
  • The Left Hand of God: Adolf Holl characterizes the Holy Spirit as the playful dimension of the Divine.
  • A Flock of Fools: Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt share a collection of humorous and playful stories about the follies and delusions of human beings.
  • Games for the Soul: Drew Leder puts the accent on the playfulness of the soul as he covers lightening up, going with the flow, surrender, nonproductivity, and joy.
  • Last Child in the Woods: Richard Louv presents a hard-hitting and revealing study of today's wired generation of children who have little or no connection with nature.
  • Improv Wisdom: Patricia Ryan Madson shares exercises for a way of living that is playful and creative.
  • Buddha Laughing: Cartoons collected by the editors of Tricycle Magazine poke fun at meditation, karma, reincarnation, and enlightenment.
  • Coloring Your Prayers: Carolyn Manzi's delightful coloring book for adults is designed to bring out the playful and creative child in you.
  • The Essential Crazy Wisdom: Wes "Scoop" Nisker's new edition of an underground classic about the playful spirit of Zen masters, tricksters, holy fools, and other wacky teachers.
  • Sudden Music: David Rothenberg celebrates Earth jazz and the human need to playfully improvise our lives.
  • The Zen Commandments: Dean Sluyter playfully uses colorful illustrations from Zen Masters, Tibetan meditators, Bob Dylan, J.D. Salinger and others to unfurl the possibilities of a life of inner freedom.
  • Jesus the Holy Fool: Elizabeth-Anne Stewart uses the lens of holy foolishness as a way of examining the life and work of Jesus.
  • A Man Without a Country: Kurt Vonnegut's recent essays filled with wry humor, playfulness, incisive cultural criticism, savage political satire, and spiritual gems.

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