“I love Steve Hagen’s books! He manages to write about the most abstruse truths and make them sound as sensible and as straightforward as baseball scores—how does he do it? This book—which is so much fun to read and is full of scientific as well as everyday examples—is written in the form of a dialog between Steve and ‘Anyone’ (you and I) in which everything Anyone thinks makes sense doesn’t. By the time Anyone gets to the end, Anyone agrees. This is a wonderful book.”

– Norman Fischer, poet, Zen priest, and author of The World Could Be Otherwise and On a Train at Night

“A brilliant philosophical masterpiece. Hagen explores some of our most cherished assumptions about reality and self in a thought-provoking yet lighthearted interview-style conversation. This book is bound to shake up how you understand your life.”

– Mark Van Buren, author of The Fool’s Guide to Actual Happiness

“Steve Hagen’s best and most ambitious book—immensely enjoyable.”

– Scott Edelstein, author of The User’s Guide to Spiritual Teachers

“A thought-provoking read. Steve Hagen has a knack for taking complex ideas and presenting them simply and straightforwardly.”

– Tim Burkett, guiding teacher, Minnesota Zen Meditation Center and author of Nothing Holy about It and Zen in the Age of Anxiety