Joey Green, the guru of weird uses for brand-name products, is the bestselling author of Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose, Paint Your House with Powdered Milk, Wash Your Hair with Whipped Cream, and Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz. The New York Daily News calls him “a hyperactive, testosterone-charged version of Heloise.” People magazine calls him the “Pantry Professor.” The New York Times says, “His deadpan explanations end in punchlines that would have a stand-up comic’s audience in the aisles.” A former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, Green is the author of Joey Green’s Fix-It Magic, and more than forty books, including Joey Green’s Amazing Kitchen Cures, Joey Green’s Gardening Magic,The Bubble Wrap Book, The Partridge Family Album, Selling Out, The Warning Label Book, The Zen of Oz, The Official Slinky Book, You Know You’ve Reached Middle Age If . . . , and The Mad Scientist Handbook. He has been on dozens of television programs and hundreds of radio talk shows. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Green, Joey "The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the Rainbow"
Book overview
Does "The Wizard of Oz" touch a spiritual chord in each one of us because it has a certain Zen to it? Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, is clearly a Zen Master. She sets Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road to spiritual enlightenment. When Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion let go of their conscious yearning and free their minds to function spontaneously and inharmony with the cosmos, brains, heart, and courage flow easily and effortlessly. Ultimately, Dorothy attains satori, the Zen experience of "awakening." She finds her true Self, her higher consciousness, her ultimate Oneness with the cosmos--and her home.
Limited preview - 1999 - 144 pages - Literary Criticism
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I had no idea that the same Joey Green that wrote one of my favorite books, "The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the Rainbow." , is considered "the guru of weird uses for brand-name products". It is a beautiful book full of illustrations by Cathy Pavia and calligraphy by Sumi Nishikawa. The zen is real for the author of the books of "The Wonderful World of Oz" , L.Frank Baum, and the film included much of the zen in it. The book is based
on the film made by directed mainly by Victor Fleming starring Judy Garland. There are many things in it that on the surface does not make sense but will once the reader reads this books. For example, why does Dorothy endanger Toto's life by letting her dog run through Miss Gulch's garden? Why does Auntie Em who Dorothy loves with all of her heart not seem to have much time and affection for Dorothy? Why is the film in black and white in Kansas but in color in Oz? If Dorothy is happy with her aunt and uncle why does she sing about a land over the rainbow? For everything in the film, there is a definite reason. That is why the film lives on and on in one generation after another.
