Cuts to the Chase | Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

This is based on the author's use of LSD | Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment | Thaddeus Golas

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	• Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment Thaddeus Golas Gibbs Smith, 2002 - 112 pages average customer review:based on 63 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

More useful advice on life in less space than any book I've ever read

I spent most of the 80s and 90s reading every spiritual text, Bible, Gita, Koran, etc etc I could find. This one says more with fewer words than any other holy book I know of. Golas proves that there are many routes to enlightenment and peace of mind, and his pithy ability to condense history's wisdom into less than 100 pages is truly legendary.

The end page, Even Lazier, has a few sentences that will remind you what really matters when you need it most. For instance, "What do you think it is that needs to be loved?", a perfect answer to every time you struggle with negativity in any form. The ultimate reminder is "No resistance". Once you read this book--takes an hour or two max, and is a lot of fun--you'll know how deep those two words really are.

No new age book yet has come close to the concision and relaxed optimism of the Lazy Man's Guide.

Not bad for a broke head writing in a Berkeley hotel in the late 60s.
But then, old JC was a nutty freak too, wasn't he?

Blessings and much love, Mr. Golas.
May you expand forever.

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Cuts to the Chase

This little gem is like a laser light, cutting through the fog. No attempt to manipulate your thinking or build some kind of fancy 'program' for you to accomplish or anything like that. A simple description of the Universe. It's only 80 pages long, but you don't even have to read that far; he states the whole thing in one paragraph near the beginning of the book.

This is based on the author's use of LSD

I put that title in because one reviewer felt ripped off after buying the book only later to discover that the book is at least in part, written as a guide to get you out of a bad lsd trip. The author clearly states in the book that psychedelics are ONE way to follow a path towards enlightenment.

Of course many Buddhists and religious types would disagree. But as Golas says "Enlightenment doesn't care how you get there" or something to that effect.

I bought this book, indeed, while I was experimenting with lds in the 70's and it did indeed set me on the path towards spiritual enlightenment. I have since read many books on enlightenment and of all of them, this is the simplest and most basic, while also being "right".
(I also am a big fan of Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now".)

This is a classic and it is a shame it's out of print.

Get a used copy. Even if you have to pay $20-30, it's worth it, especially if you plan to blaze a trail down the well-traveled but full-of-surprises and pitfalls path of psychedelic exploration.

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The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

I was terribly disappointed to come across this preface-laden edition - complete with family photographs - of a little book that I had kept at my side constantly for many years. Blew a lot of my illusions. This guy really did seem to think he's someone special for writing it, whereas in fact it's so obviously channeled, and in channelled works you'd usually rather the writer remained as anonymous as possible. Thaddues Golas, the author, proceeds to treat the book almost as a kind of holy text (which it isn't) and rambles on, by way of introduction, for a number of extra redundant pages in the slightly pompous and loopy epigramic prose style which we accept as an integral part of the Guide itself, but don't therefore necessarily condone as a good or even consistent example of mainstream thinking. Golas seems to harbor that illusion, and appears really to have a guru-complex of sorts. The book itself, though, remains perfect in its way. Pity he couldn't have just left it in it's perfection, and stayed back in the wings paring his fingernails,and cashing in his royalty checks.

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One of the top 10 spiritual books you must read!

Golas wrote this book during the psychadelic hippie era with the goal of providing something helpful to read when you're "stuck in a weird place." It's a short work, and you can get through it under an hour, which is why you'll be inclined to re-read at least one more time. Golas masterfully consolidates his ideas about enlightenment, freedom, reality, resistance and love into ten power-packed chapters that will leave you wanting to read more. He asks us to consider the REAL question: "If you are a completely free and self-determined being, how did you lock yourself into a body and play games on the material plane? How did you get yourself and others to agree to this game?"

Golas explains that we are all completely equal. Every being is self-determined and chooses to experience life at a certain vibration level. We cannot change anyone else's vibration level, and we are not obligated to change anyone else's vibration level. Even more, we cannot hurt or help others without their agreement "to play the game," and likewise, no one can help or hurt us without our agreement. He reminds us there are many paths to enlightenment but he advocates taking the easiest path, the one that's available to everyone, which is love. "Go beyond reason to love -- it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will be shown to you."

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$10.95 cloth hardcover · 1-58685-190-X · August 5 x 7 in, 112 pp, Rights: W, Self-Help Originally published by the author in 1972, the underground classic Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment teaches how to improve the quality of life, to feel good, and to determine what's real. Golas leads the reader down the path toward enlightenment with simple steps, like memorizing key phrases and incorporating them into daily life and thought. Think of how much better your life might be if you reminded yourself to "love as much as you can from wherever you are" or "love it the way it is." This classic book is full of useful tips on how to live a more conscious life and to be an engaged and aware member of the universal community. "While we have humility and pride enough to act on the knowledge that we exist in an infinite harmony, that we are neither greater nor lesser than any others, we can enjoy exquisite spiritual wealth and pleasures. When you love yourself, you are in truth expanding in love into many other things. And the more loving you are, the more loving the beings within and around you. On all levels we are mutually dependent vibrations. Play a happy tune and happy dancers will join your trip."

- From The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment After serving in World War II, author Thaddeus Golas graduated from Columbia College in New York. He later moved to San Francisco, where he became involved in the activism and spiritual quests of the 1960s. He was an editor of Redbook magazine and a book representative for publisher Harper and Row.

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