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Title Page Dedication I - Innerductions IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DUDE WAY. . . THE WHOLE DURN DUDEIST COMEDY

Pre-Ramble What the Fuck Are We Blathering About? The Dudeist Frame of Reference The Abide Guide

THE DUDE TESTAMENT

II - Wiser Fellers Than Ourselves—Dudeist History GREAT DUDES IN HISTORY

Jesus and the Buddha: A Pair of Diggable Dudes Lao-Tzu: It’s Your Thing, Tao What You Wanna Do Heraclitus and Epicurus: Life’s All Fluxed Up, So Enjoy the Ups and Downs Emily Dickinson: It’s Your Roll, Dude Mark Twain: American Idle Bob Marley: Rasta Far Out Georgia O’Keeffe and Diane di Prima: Strongly Vaginal Artists Wavy Gravy: Saint Misbehavin’ Jeff Bridges: He’s The Dude, Man… That’s What You Call Him

THE BOOK OF REVOLUTIONS - Dudeist Prophecy

Mayan Is Not the Preferred Nomenclature… Meso-American, Please Our Revelation Is Not Over The Big Lebowski and the Three R’s of Prophecy

DUDEIST MOVEMENTS - Dudeism Down Through the Ages

THE AXIAL AGE 800–200 BCE SUFISM 7TH CENTURY CE–PRESENT TROUBADOURS 12TH–13TH CENTURIES ROMANTICISM 18TH–20TH CENTURIES THE LUDDITES EARLY 18TH CENTURY TRANSCENDENTALISM 19TH CENTURY UTOPIANS 19TH CENTURY HUMANISM 20TH CENTURY THE DIGGERS 1960s SLOW MOVEMENT 1980s–PRESENT

CREATING A MORE DUDE-OCRATIC SOCIETY - The Politics of the Dude

“The ’90s Are the ’60s Standing on Their Head” —Wavy Gravy Give Me Liberty or…Hell, Lost My Train of Thought Student for a Dudeist Society Quest for the Dude’s Uncompromised Port Huron Draft A Duder World Is Possible

CINEMA VERTE - Stoner Films and The Big Lebowski

What Makes a Stoner Movie? A Stoner Movie Frame of Reference The Grandfather (or Big Bambuski) of Stoner Films The Big Lebowski: Stoner Flick or Not? Abiding in a Universe That Tends to Unfold as It Should

SUBJECTS LIKE WOMEN - Dudeist Feminism

III - Making It to Practice—Dudeist Lifestyle and Techniques SELF-HELP CHOPPERIN’ IN - The Dudeism Helping to Abide Movement (DHAM)

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Takin’ ’Er Easy Fuggedaboud the Funny Shtuff Limberal Thinking Ironic Jeff The Road Less Rambled The Power of Not Now

DUDERINOS UNANIMOUS - A 12-Step Program for Personal Dudevolution

Bruce Lee: A Brother Dudeist? You Take the Wu Wei, and I’ll Take the Dude Way Pacifism Is Not Something to Hide Behind The Art of Dude-Jitsu The Big Wu-bowski Practicing Dude-Jitsu The Dude’s No Mind

SOME KIND OF YOGA - A Natural, Zesty Exercise

The Dudeist Some Kind of Yoga Poses (Asanas)

THANKIE - The Power of Dudeiversal Energy

1. Belly Handles 2. Go With the Yin and Yang Flow 3. Making It to Practice 4. Further Uses of Thankie

FUNGIN’ SHWAY - The Dudeist Science of Really Tying Your Room Together

The John The Rug The Bar Sofa, So Good Bedrock and Roll Tying Things Up

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