cover image Quest Love Trilogy Volume 3: Ecstasy

Quest Love Trilogy Volume 3: Ecstasy

Entertainment Zolar, Zolar Entertainment. Simon & Schuster Audio, $12 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-58247-0

Since the early days of spoken-word audio, the medium has acted as a natural magnet for New Age-tinged motivational speakers. Seven of this genre's all time heavyweights are assembled here: Deepak Chopra, Barbara De Angelis, John Gray, Thomas Moore, Caroline Myss, John O'Donohue and Marianne Williamson. Based on a Public Television forum, the tape splices together statements about ecstasy and sex from these, ""today's most influential thinkers."" Accompanying cascades of synthesized orchestration--harps, drums, strings--help to set a rapturous tone. The results are a free-form metaphysical smorgasbord. Chopra, sounding wise, says we are a nation of addicts because ""we have lost ecstasy."" O'Donohue, in his trademark leprechaun brogue, reflects that ""the mind is like a tower of different windows."" All the speakers included are highly skilled masters of the spoken m tier, and here a listener can get them all in an easy value pack. (Feb.)