"Wes “Scoop” Nisker is an award-winning broadcast journalist and commentator, a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, a best selling author and a captivating performer. This collection of his writing brims with the insight, humor, and wisdom for which he is famous. Compiling for the first time, Wes best known essays as well as a selection of recent and never before published work, Wes takes readers on both a cultural journey (a tour through the Sixties, through the modern environmental movement, the surge of Buddhism in the West) and a more personal one, exploring the motivation behind his own as well as humanitys spiritual searching." -- From back cover.