This book is absolutely on the cutting edge-even ahead of its time. It brings us an entirely new way of understanding addiction, one of the major curses of industrial society in the late twentieth century. After Wild Hunger, it will be very difficult to think of addiction as a purely medical-neurological problem.

David Ehrenfeld, Rutgers University

Footnotes provide interesting information and lead the reader to the other source.

D.L. Loers, Willamette University, Choice Reviews

Literate and spiritually refreshing.

Barbara Fulton, The Journal Of Addiction and Mental Health

The book is an interesting indicator of current trends in fin-de-siecle America.

Robin Room, National Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, Oslo, Norway, Addiction

An impassioned plea for rediscovering our primal need for ecstatic involvement in the world. . . will speak to a wide audience.

Publishers Weekly

Wilshire gives insight into the nature of the pseudo-ecstasy of addiction...and how a new awakening can come about.

Thomas Berry, Author of The Dream of the Earth