This book is an act of holy rascality. It isn’t well reasoned, well argued, or even well thought out. It is simply an exercise in truth telling.
The book is divided into three parts. The first, “The Mind of a Rascal: An Unauthorized Autobiography,” offers a glimpse into my personal path to holy rascality. The second, “Religion Unveiled: The Tao of Toto,” is a holy rascal-esque look at different aspects of religion and spirituality. The third, “Hacking the Holy,” shares the primary tools of spiritual culture jamming and invites you to get in the game of holy rascality. The book closes with an epilogue titled “There’s a God at the End of This Book!,” an example of holy rascality.
Because the art of holy rascality relies heavily on short writing, most “chapters” are brief, with each one asserting its point rather than arguing on its behalf. In this way you are invited to say yes or no to each point without overthinking it. If you say yes, you are rewarded with a quick hit of endorphins. If you say no, you suffer pangs of buyer’s remorse.
To save you time, here are the underlying assumptions of this book:
1 Brand-name parochial religions are concerned with their respective truths rather than the Perennial Wisdom at the mystic heart of all religion.
2 Knowing this allows you to learn from and even participate in all religions without becoming trapped in any of them.
3 Those who hold the copyright to brand-name religions don’t want you to know this.
4 Holy rascals do.
5 The best way to free religion from the parochial and for the perennial is humor.
Now that you no longer have to wonder what this book is about, you are free to read it just for fun. After all, that’s why I wrote it.