{"product_id":"9781619027077","title":"The Rainman's Third Cure: An Irregular Education","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eCoyote, Peter\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCounterpoint\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\"The rainman gave me two cures\u003cbr\u003eAnd he said, 'Just jump right in.'\u003cbr\u003eThe one was Texas Medicine\u003cbr\u003eAnd the other was railroad gin.\u003cbr\u003eAnd like a fool I mixed them\u003cbr\u003eAnd they strangled up my mind\u003cbr\u003eNow people just get uglier\u003cbr\u003eAnd I have no sense of time.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Bob Dylan, \"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe guiding metaphor in Peter Coyote's new spiritual autobiography is drawn from a line in an early Bob Dylan song. For Coyote, the twin forces Dylan identifies as Texas Medicine and Railroad Gin—represent the competing forces of the transcendental, inclusive, and ecstatic world of love with the competitive, status–seeking world of wealth and power. \u003ci\u003eThe Rainman's Third Cure\u003c\/i\u003e is the tale of a young man caught between these apparently antipodal options and the journey that leads him from the privileged halls of power to Greenwich Village jazz bars, to jail, to the White House, lessons from a man who literally held the power of life and death over others, to government service and international success on stage and screen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpanding his frame beyond the wild ride through the 1960's counterculture that occupied so much of his lauded debut memoir, \u003ci\u003eSleeping Where I Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, Coyote provides readers intimate portraits of mentors that shaped him—a violent, intimidating father, a bebop Bass player who teaches him that life can be improvised, a Mafia consiglieri, who demonstrates to him that men can be bought and manipulated, an ex-game warden who initates him into the laws of nature, a gay dancer in Martha Graham's company who introduces him to Mexico and marijuanas, beat poet Gary Snyder, who introduces him to Zen practice, and finally famed fashion designer Nino Cerruti who made the high–stakes world of haute monde Europe available to him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat begins as a peripatetic flirtation with Zen deepens into a life–long avocation, ordination as a priest, and finally the road to Transmission—acknowledgement from his teacher that he is ready to be an independent teacher. Through Zen, Coyote discovers a third option that offers an alternative to both the worlds of Love and Power's correlatives of status seeking and material wealth. Zen was his portal, but what he discovers on the inside is actually available to all humans. In this energetic, reflective and intelligent memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Rainman's Third Cure\u003c\/i\u003e is the way out of the box. The way that works.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44219412349183,"sku":"9781619027077","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781619027077_s600x595.jpg?v=1777912476","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781619027077","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}