| |
| | Tucson Weekly: New Age, Spew Age (August 27 - September 2, 1998) |
 | | Brown purposelessly meanders from one trite, '90s-style spiritualistic anecdote to the next in a lackluster quest which only pretends to delve beyond the superficial. |
 | | Brown attempts this, but his flimsy, interminable narrative focusing on the Westerner's insular view into a culture he doesn't understand butchers the concept, thus moving spiritualism from a sincere, religious realm--something special and cherished whether private or shared--to page one of a supermarket tabloid. |
 | | But Brown and his book's intermittent players, rather than learning about these cultures as outsiders, excerpt quaint ideas and mold them into their own Western, ego-bloated, Christian-oriented perspectives, as if sacred components of any belief system could be plucked from one culture and appropriated into another. |
| www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/08-27-98/book2.htm (1236 words) |
|