"The appearance of "The Mummery Book" signals a remarkable occasion in the world of literature. It is a novel in the mode of a vast parable, in which mystical and esoteric states of awareness are fleshed in poetic imagery. It is an experimental work-what Adi Da calls a ""prose opera""-that shatters the conventional limits of language and raises literary portrayal to radical levels of consciousness. 'At the level of form and style, "The Mummery Book" is reminiscent of Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, and Joyce. Adi Da makes words crackle and swoon, pound and console with an endless suggestiveness guided by a desire to open up the reader's heart and imagination to the possibility of transformation.As playful as it is profound, as heart-breaking as it is consoling, it is an absolutely unique literary experience.'- -from the foreword by Philip Kuberski, PhD Professor of English, Wake Forest University;"