[.ca] Dancing with Mosquitoes: To Liberate the Mind from ... (ISBN 053312977X)

Readers of ISHMAEL will love DANCING WITH MOSQUITOES!:
Running into Theo Grutter's book is like running into Jean Liedloff's Continuum Concept: meeting a mind that has come independently to be in synch with my own. This doesn't mean he's saying things I've said or thought. On the contrary, he continually surprises me with things I haven't said or thought. And he says them well and wittily. Of our frenetic "get ahead" lifestyle that robs our souls to fill our houses with gaudy trinkets: "Is it not the madness of the fool who day after day falls into the same pit, yet is wholly proud to know the trick of how to climb out of it day after day?" Of the congratulation we award ourselves for our humanitarian greatness in the Third World: "A versatile mind might want to scrutinize with an ecologically-minded eye the greatness of our great white jungle doctors. A truly modern mind that thinks also with a third eye placed generations away might then note that this humanitarian greatness nicely exploding our population there can ultimately cast a great shadow over the flora and fauna of the jungle and stop its people from singing and dancing." Composed of very brief essays, this is a book to spend a few minutes with every day, a book for your bedside table. Readers who cherish my work will cherish Dancing with Mosquitoes.

Dancing With Mosquitoes:
There are times when the world seems so decided and familiar that it tempts one to doze off as life slips by. Theo Gruder's book, Dancing With Mosquitoes, will certainly bring you fully awake in that case, as he pulls you off the well-worn highways of modern convention and shares his insights and ideas garnered over an interesting, decidedly off-road life lived in Alaska and Mexico. To read Gruder is to encounter a prose-poet with a whimsical eye, unafraid to question popular assumptions. His syntax is refreshing, at times surprising and often delightful, making his ideas tantalizing, like that unknown spice you can't quite identify in your favorite new dish. He has a way of rising above the fray of whatever the current controversy might be with a thoughtful and refreshing word. He is a man who has looked at life, thought deeply about it and made up his own mind. He invites us, as he has done, to examine the trip we're making on this earth, and to ask whether the values we hold are indeed those which we have actively chosen for ourselves, or whether we have settled for the prepackaged, one-size-fits-all variety. I encourage others to get to know him. I would also encourage this bookseller to include the book's subtitle: To Liberate the Mind from Humanism-A Way to Green the Mind. Thank you.

Dancing With Mosquitoes by Theo Grutter:
What a gift! Arriving here I found your book. I find it wild, refreshing, frightening, creative, honest, soul searching, harsh, gentle, but mostly truly objective. What can I say...But honour your odyssey of extraordinary courage...You closed the book magnamiously and the only words that come to me now are: thanks for writing it!

Compel the reader to think outside the usual parameters:
Dancing With Mosquitoes: To Liberate The Mind From Humanism -- A Way To Green The Mind records Theo Grutter's patient and persistent attempt to heal himself of such negative emotions as anger, hate, pity, and resentment. Grutter writes about northern waters, tropical seas, and the swamps were he fished for a living, as well as hunting in the taiga. Dancing With Mosquitoes is a compendium of writings that compel the reader to think outside the usual parameters of humanism and is highly recommended reading for students of philosophy, readers in search of a better and more personally fulfilling way to live, men in need of anger management, and anyone with an interest in alternative approaches to life and living.