Reading like a modern day Tao Te Ch’ing, Andy Von Sonn illustrates the psychological shift needed to regain our sanity in a world where our individuality, freedom, and democratic system are up for sale. Using gentle satire, Andy von Sonn holds a mirror to personal alienation, cookie cutter lives, and the rat race mentality, beckoning us to explore our real lives by delving into a sense of absurdity. Using this absurdity, we can break down our self-limiting paradigm and embrace what is real and true.

Looking outside of our semantics, our economic religions, and our television boxes, we may find that what is absurd is far closer to truth than we think. The question of perception and reality is best explored experientially.

Von Sonn’s collection of political and social cartoons and commentary encourage self analysis, and cheer us on in our search for our authentic selves. He reflects on a life lived in the haze of consumerism, corporate efficiency, and obedience to a religion on its knees to the Gross National Product.

Andy Von Sonn's experience as a lawyer and activist melts in with a Buddhist viewpoint, as he declares the goals of being present and in the moment, as a political urgency. Changing the current paradigm is key to empowering the people and calling a foul on government hypocrisy. He explains the illegality of our current money system, the use of usury to wean money from the American people. An economic system, that must continually keep growing in order to survive, creates a people who will never be able to rest, continuing endlessly to keep up with a debt, held invisibly over their heads, the contract signed by no one.

This book graciously encourages us to break the spell and be free…and to do it now!