Customer Reviews:
 Something for Almost Everybody, A Vacation for/from Your Mind December 2, 2008
Nearly everyone will like this book. Honest. Perfect gift book. It's got stuff for all types of people. Mystics, scientists, punk teenagers, conservative grandfathers, recovering cynics, Pollyannas, and all the rest of us, struggling to feel like life is GOOD. It's filled with GOOD. Brezsny shows you the good is under your nose.
This book doesn't allow you to hold onto any limiting old ways of being. So even when I am trying to be self-indulgently depressed, stubbornly kicking and screaming against his proof of a world filled with love, little changes are still happening. It's like cognitive behavorial therapy but with TAZ anarchy, Burning Man, and Divine sex tips straight from the Goddess Herself. I keep coming back because it actually is working to keep me feeling blessed and like a blessing - to the world, including myself!
Plus parts are a workbook and if you know nothing else about me, you know I adore workbooks, so doing an exercise about my Jungian Shadow actually hiding my best traits from myself just makes me giddy.
And there are many, many pages of facts that prove life is getting better in every way imaginable. The regular news, with its obsession with depression, is called "pop nilhilism". I like that term.
The way it is written, it's like 3 or 4 TYPES of books. It's smart and assumes I am, too. This isn't a dumb New Age "feel good" book. It's radical, dangerous, and transformative. I can't imagine walking away without some jaded self-illusions ripped off - and something frighteningly unexpected and beautiful taking its place.
I kept a star off just because Brezsny always writes about himself as if he's perfect - most commonly when he's explaining how he's not. I think his Mom didn't give him attention unless he went supernova.
Speaking of stars, yes, he's the astrology guy everyone loves. Yes, this book is written like his crazy horoscopes. That right there should convince you to buy it.
 on the light and fluffy side of self help October 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
to me, this book was scattered as well as self-promoting. rob talks about himself alot, and i didn't receive any message that i haven't heard before, and better. i would skip this one and go for eckhart tolle.
 The Antidote August 2, 2008
I have been a Rob Brezny fan for a long time now...
I receive his weekly newsletter/horoscope via e-mail, and finally decided to check out the link to this new book he's always quoting from...
It must have been destiny! This book is SO right-on, and it was, and is, exactly the antidote I needed...
In fact, I believe it's the antidote we all need!
WHY DO I LOVE THIS BOOK?
I love a book that inspires you to think...
I love a book that encourages you to question...
I love a book that allows you to step outside of yourself, a book that gives way to a new, broader point-of-view...
That's what Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings does for its readers. It's enlightening, truly.
If You're Not Joyful, You're Not Paying Attention July 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It can be difficult for smarty-pants people to combat negativity. In literary, philosophic and academic circles, cynicism is rewarded; skepticism is virtuous; pessimism is conflated with realism. "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."
But do these attitudes really help anyone? Why does being smart, aware, and/ or progressive mean you have to be miserable? Who actually wants to be outraged all the time, and what good does it do?
This book provides an alternative for people who consider themselves too smart to be cheered up by Ziggy cartoons. It makes its case for love and sincerity aggressively and effectively. It is a beautiful truth bomb, and yes, an excellent antidote for paranoia. Highly recommended.
The MOST FUN I've EVER had with a book... June 3, 2008
Remember the Giant Fun Books that you'd take with you on family vacation when you were a kid? Well, this is the adult version, and it's overflowing with fun things that give you great ideas, and make you feel good, and activities to teach you exciting ways to brighten up every moment of life for you and everyone around you. This book is a MUST HAVE for everyone, any age, everywhere! Give it as a gift, or start a movement, this book is a great tool for positive change...you can open it to any page, and find just what you needed at that very moment...you can use it like an oracle, or daily meditation, or a boost of energy. It makes reality enjoyable.
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