When the Gnostic Gospels collide with new age spiritualism, the Oxford Happiness Test, and treatises on Buddhist practice, we know we're in the territory of a Bruce Beasley collection. Alternately devout and heretical, Beasley--known for his intense and continuing soul-quest through previous award-winning books--interrogates the absurdities, psychic violence, and spiritual condition of twenty-first century America with despair, philosophic intelligence,...