After the Absolute

Richard Rose Was An Unlikely Zen Master: A Rugged Plainspoken Ornery West Virginian He Scraped Out A Living Raising Goats Planting Crops And Painting Houses. But Richard Rose Had A Secret: Having Once Vowed To “Find The Truth Or Die Trying” Rose Experienced A Cataclysmic Spiritual Awakening At Age 30 That Thrust Him Into “Everything-Ness And Nothing-Ness Or What He Called “The Absolute.” The Experience Left Him With Only One Earthly Desire: To Do Anything For Anyone On A Similar Quest For Truth. David Gold Was An Unlikely Student: An Arrogant Ambitious And Egotistical Law-Student David Gold Only Agreed To Meet The “Enlightened Hillbilly” In The Hopes Of Showing Him Up. But When Rose Turned The Tables By Seeing Right Through Gold And Painting A Devastatingly Accurate Picture Of The Fears And Obsessions That Ruled His Life A Humbled Gold Found Himself Hungry To Know More.Thus Began A Remarkable 15-Year Adventure—Part Spiritual Odyssey Part Legal Thriller—In Which Death Threats Corrupt Politicians And Life-Threatening Cancer Run Parallel To Glimpses Of The Divine And Extraordinary Manifestations Of Timeless Wisdom.