“Just bring your body and a pulse.” Think you know what meditation is? Think it’s boring? Think again. Meditation. You always wanted to try it but were afraid you’d get it wrong. That you’d look weird. That you might discover yourself and not like what you find. Fear not, Colin Ruthven has made all the mistakes, and clears the way for you to encounter the real you, and in the process, feel good about being whoever and whatever that turns out to be. From metaphysics to outrageous fun, “Everything anyone ever forgot to teach you about MEDITATION” is a hilarious compilation of 100 hand-drawn illustrations and accompanying vignettes, forming an illustrated diary of how meditation has shaped the author’s life. A retired Marine Corps Fighter pilot and retired Head Illustrator at the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper, a painter and published author, Colin Ruthven has experimented with everything from meditation, yoga, the paranormal, the transpersonal, holotropic breathwork, Warrior Weekends, consciousness expansion, past life regressions, Eckankar, shamans, and mystics. Authors range from Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Shunryu Suzuki, Castaneda, Maslow, Alan Watts, Emmet Fox, Thomas Merton, Stanislav Grof to Rupert Sheldrake, Krishnamurti, Madame Blavatsky, Ram Das, Chopra, Eckhart Tolle. From Marcus Aurelius to Christopher Hitchens, from the beat generation of the fifties to the hugely complicated and fascinating emerging thoughts of this decade. This is a come as you are, where you are party. No need to buy new luggage or change anything about you. We’ll take care of that. Just bring your body and a pulse.