Wes Nisker
(Writer)

The Essential Crazy Wisdom (1990 as Crazy Wisdom, revised 1999)
Take a wild and rickety ride through the philosophies of the East and West to discover the madmen, dreamers, and unconventional wisdom seekers in the abridged, better-than-ever version of our best-selling cult classic. ESSENTIAL CRAZY WISDOM delivers the most significant, most lunatic, and most compelling insights of the ages. Scoop Nisker patches together the unorthodox teachings that have bubbled up through the words of such crazy visionaries as Rumi, Gautama the Buddha, Mark Twain, Lao Tzu, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Allen Ginsberg, and Lily Tomlin. Discover the common thread in these multiple perspectives and travel on this comedic course to enlightenment!

If You Don't Like the News...Go Out and Make Some of Your Own (1994)
Scoop offers an insider's insights into the evolution of the counterculture, and gives his views on everything from the decline and fall of the American empire to the primordial chicken soup, and a journalist's-eye view of some of the most important events of the past three decades.  More than just the story of one man's fascinating life,  If You Don't Like the News...Go Out and Make Some of Your Own is truly the story of a generation.

Buddha's Nature (2000)
The Buddha said that "everything we need to know about life can be found inside this fathom-long body." Then why is most people's spirituality--whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jewish--completely cut off from their body? In this provocative and groundbreaking book, you'll discover that enlightenment comes not from "out there," but from a deep understanding of our own personal biology. Using the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, a traditional Buddhist meditation, Nisker shows how cutting-edge science is proving the tenets first offered by the Buddha.

And he provides a practical program, complete with meditations and exercises, that enables readers to become mindful of the origins of emotions, desires, and thoughts. One of the great synthesizers of East and West, Nisker shows how to incorporate the traditional understanding of the Buddha with the latest scientific discoveries while on our spiritual journey. He shows that we are not separate from nature and the evolving universe. The way to enlightenment lies within our very biology.

The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom (2004)
Hang on for a Wild Journey through the Political and Spiritual Adventures of the Baby-Boom Generation -- join Wes "Scoop" Nisker as he takes us on a hilarious, wild ride through the heyday of the Beats and the Hippies and the birth of the modern environmental movement, and the surge of Buddhism in the West.