The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the Rainbow - Hardcover

Green, Joey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580630200 ISBN 13: 9781580630207

Publisher: Renaissance Books, 1998

Synopsis

Does The Wizard of Oz touch a spiritual chord in each one of us because it has a certain Zen to it? Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, is clearly a Zen Master. She sets Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road to spiritual enlightenment. When Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion let go of their conscious yearning and free their minds to function spontaneously and inharmony with the cosmos, brains, heart, and courage flow easily and effortlessly. Ultimately, Dorothy attains satori, the Zen experience of "awakening." She finds her true Self, her higher consciousness, her ultimate Oneness with the cosmos--and her home.

About this title

About the Author:

Joey Green is the best-selling author of many books, including Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose and Wash Your Hair With Whipped Cream. He has made guest appearances on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and has been profiled in People magazine He Lives in Woodland Hills, California, with his wife, Debbie, and their daughters, Ashley and Julia.

Review:

"Green excavates more meaning from the beloved movie than five decades of kids and parents ever found. This is a delightful book whose illustrations by Cathy Pavia are stills from the movie transformed into Japanese wood block prints." -- Barbara Ardinger, Ph.D., Whole Life Times, February 1999

"In this spiffy little book, [Joey Green] mines the Zen insights in one of the most popular movies of all time--'The Wizard of Oz.'" -- Frederic Brussat, www.spiritualrx.com, January 15, 1999

"This charming book will have you scrutinizing 'The Wizard of Oz' for the profound messages you missed in previous viewings." -- Entertainment News & Views, December 11, 1998

"Versatile writer Joey Green has done it again with 'The Zen of Oz.'" -- Social Studies, December 19, 1998

About this edition

• Publisher: Renaissance Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1580630200
• ISBN 13: 9781580630207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144