“I have seen the future of American literature, and its name is Rob Brezsny.”
novelist Tom Robbins
“Brezsny holds his own place next to cultural shamans like Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, William Burroughs, and Ken Kesey.”
Pop Matters
“Rob Brezsny unleashes his wild imagination and his multiple ways of seeing and knowing into visceral love notes.”
author adrienne maree brown, New York Times bestselling author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
“Brezsny’s writing is poetic, circular, dancing, combining the narrative voices of Anais Nin, Tom Robbins, and David Ignatow.”
Rain Taxi
“Rob Brezsny uses his medicinal and ecstatic love for the world to help us become the kind of people who recognize joy as both a weapon and a cure.”
Amanda Yates Garcia, author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
“This wild, wise, and subversive book is a must read for those who want to live a more imaginative and free life. Rob Brezsny is a Culture Hero.”
Utne Reader
“Like a mutant love-child of Jack Kerouac and Anais Nin, Rob Brezsny writes with devilish humor, spiritual audacity, and erotic intensity.”
author Jay Kinney
“The verbally acrobatic, mystically literate Brezsny lets fly a thousand zingers, each with the feel of having been carved with a poetic effort to express a hard reality instead of a platitude.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“Like some voluble combination of HL Mencken and a Sufi whirling dervish, Brezsny writes with disarming fluidity while still remaining acerbic. His style is too sinuous, too wriggly and difficult to classify, edgy and uncomfortable and kick-ass.”
Santa Fe Reporter
“Renegade wizard Rob Brezsny writes irreverent manifestoes, mixing activism and optimism. They read like the I Ching on Ecstasy and are as insightful and puzzling as a Zen koan.”
Body + Soul
“Brezsny’s horoscopes are like little valentines, buoyant and spilling over with mischievousness. They’re a soul prognosis.”
The New York Times
“I’m sending big thanks to Rob Brezsny for the most literary astrology ever!”
poet Jane Hirshfield
“Rob Brezsny’s writing is delightful.”
author Rebecca Solnit
“I have been a fan of Rob Brezsny for years.”
Marianne Williamson, author, spiritual and political activist
“I dig Rob Brezsny for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry, and his humor. I salute him for his dedication to inspiration.”
Jason Mraz, singer-songwriter
“Rob Brezsny’s book Images Are Dangerous was written by a genius.”
poet, novelist, and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu
“I am deeply inspired by the illuminated words of Rob Brezsny. He is a word wizard for the soul.”
author and artist Sark
“Brilliant! Absorbing! Wildly useful! Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.”
Marisa Tomei, Academy Award-winning actor
“Rob Brezsny’s book Images Are Dangerous is both raw and ripe, a thoroughly sui generis dose of entertaining weirdness.”
longtime poetry editor of The Paris Review, Tom Clark
“What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his witch’s brew of macho feminism and poetic rationalism, he weaves texts crazy enough to be true and real enough to subvert the literalist virus of cynicism now immobilizing the collective mindscape.”
author and filmmaker Antero Alli
“It’s really wonderful how everyone has loved Rob Brezsny for my whole life! All my closest friends.”
film director, screenwriter, actor, and author Miranda July
“Rob Brezsny reinvented the art for all of us poet astrologers who have come later. He has transformed everyone who has ever read him.”
poet and Obie-winning playwright Ariana Reines
“Like Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson, Rob Brezsny teaches his readers genuine occult truths. Unlike those purveyors of grim dystopia and post-modern chaoticism, Brezsny’s flavor is inviting and rollicking, juicy and effervescent. Where Dick’s world is infused with oppressive disorder, Brezsny’s is animated with lucid goodness. Where Wilson is agnostic, Brezsny is ecstatic. Where Dick’s landscape is widespread despair with short-lived glimpses of illusory sweetness, Brezsny’s universe thrums with Divine Presence.”
neurodiversity advocate Emily Shurr
“Astrology’s star has risen dramatically in the past three decades. I’m convinced that it would not have happened without Rob Brezsny. With his popular columns, he’s reached millions of people and, more importantly, managed to make a connection between two words that were previously never heard together—astrology and intelligence. And while we’re at it, let’s add funny, literate, and profound.”
astrologer Steven Forrest, author of The Inner Sky
“If you read a snippet of [Pronoia] every day, you’re bound to experience more than a little bliss. We already loved Rob for his thoughtful and astute horoscopes…but those are mere glimpses of his abundant wisdom, humor, and encyclopedic storehouse of information. Sit down with this compendium of ruminations, suggestions and outlandish observations and let your imagination run wild.”
Whole Life Times
“Pronoia depicts life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul… When you see life from this perspective, living takes on a newfound joy and illumination.”
Spiritual Media Blog
“You don’t need The Church, a Savior, a Guru, or psilocybin mushrooms to ‘break on through to the other side.’ Brezsny takes you there in the pages of Pronoia. It’s the best book I’ve read in the 21st century!”
Chris Duel, News-Talk 550 KTSA, San Antonio, Texas
“In Pronoia, Brezsny tenderly leads us into the practice of re-imagining the world as a compassionate miracle. It’s the best campaign platform I’ve heard in years. And the book offers a bevy of ideas for tricksters to re-create the universe. Brezsny for president!”
Santa Cruz Sentinel
“Pronoia is like stepping through your very own magic looking glass. Brezsny is a diabolical lyricist, an infectious dreamer, and a riotous Doctor of Know.”
Cathoderaytan.net
“Now, you might think that Pronoia is some kind of mealy new-aged crap, or yet another “business success/self-help” rag. But you’d be wrong. It is, in fact, the most marvelous inanimate object I’ve ever held in my hands.”
Corinna Bloom
“Pronoia is a food processor for the spirit, a socket wrench for attitude adjustment, and a garbage disposal for the soul. It shreds, dices, pulses, grinds, and disintegrates all the negative myths that the doom and gloomers throw our way, and blends them into a mind-soothing smoothie for vibrant living.”
Rob Grogan, Front Porch
“Pronoia is a life manual for not just overthrowing the dictator within (and so without) but more vital than this, a manual for creating an intelligent, sexy and juicy alternative to the Big Should.”
Moonkissd.com
“If you know someone who is down on himself and the world, who spends most of his time complaining rather than creating (and who doesn’t know someone like that?) this is the perfect gift for him or her. Pronoia is filled with great uplifting information, and perhaps nothing says it better than the book’s tag line: “888 Tricks for Becoming a Wildly Disciplined, Fiercely Tender, Ironically Sincere, Scrupulously Curious, Aggressively Sensitive, Blasphemously Reverent, Lyrically Logical, Lustfully Compassionate Master of Rowdy Bliss.””
New Paradigm Digest
“With great zest and an inimitable creativity, Brezsny sees the present moment as the perfect moment. Throughout this extraordinary book, he celebrates many of the qualities we have incorporated in our vision of Spiritual Literacy: imagination, wonder, gratitude, reverence, play, beauty, compassion, connections, mystery, and more. Suffice it to say, this is a rollercoaster ride that surprises, entertains, and edifies in equal measures. It is the perfect resource to lift your spirits and send you on your way rejoicing!”
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