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Title: The Hundredth Monkey by Ken Keyes Jr. ISBN: 0-942024-01-X Publisher: Devorss & Co (Txp) Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Hundredth Monkey is not about the hundredth monkey:
Comment: This book concerns itself with issues of much greater importance than the phenomenon of the hundredth monkey; it is about the necessity to recognize the dangers of sum zero conflicts (conflicts that result in a winner and a loser). In an age where the threat of Nuclear war is (hopefully) diminishing, the words of Ken Keyes Jr. still have profound applications to individuals' life styles and global attitudes. The book dwells on the notion that a paradigm shift from "you vs me" to "you and me" is necessary to survive as a species. The book takes an hour to read. Everyone should read this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: 100 monkeys are smarter than one writer
Comment: This book has a wonderful idea, but is not based in reality. There was no spontaneous transfer of knowledge from monkey to monkey after a 100th monkey learned to use a tool. The REAL story is based on a well-documented primatological event. In 1952, some researchers gave sweet potatoes to a group of 22 snow monkeys on Koshima Island. Imo, a young female, washed her potato in the ocean before eating it. In time, other monkeys learned this behavior. This knowledge transfer was a learning process that took years and generations to spread throughout the troop. Eventually, potato washing among troop members became common. The researchers also scattered grains along the beach. The monkeys had to pick it out of the sand one grain at a time. Then Imo threw a handful of sandy grain in the water. The sand sank and the grain floated, making it easy to scoop up. Again, other members of Imo's troop eventually learned how to throw their grain in the water.
So, there was no instantaneous transfer of knowledge. There was no "100th monkey phenomenon." It is a shame that such a grand idea of stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons is based on pseudo-science.
Rating: 4
Summary: The 100th Monkey
Comment: .... This is a book against the use of nuclear power and, of course, nuclear weapons. It is based upon a phenomenon observed that when a critical amount of monkeys began using a certain tool, that skill was automatically transferred to the rest of the species- even if the other monkeys lived far away and in isolation. It is a controversial thoery of evolution which boarders on the spontaneous. In the book 'The Hundreth Monkey', Ken Keyes applies the theory to humans; in this case, if enough humans decide that nuclear power and nuclear arms are bad, then automatically everyone in the world will come to that same conclusion. Although it sounds like 'wishful thinking', until the Hundreth Monkey phenomenon is disproved, it will hold to its sliver of light.
While I agree that nuclear power and nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for us to be tinkering with, I do support space exploration. If the public did not prevent NASA from using nuclear-powered space conveyance, we could be making leaps and strides into the galaxy; The main problem with standard long-distance space travel for humans is that it takes too much rocket-fuel, and carrying it out of our atmosphere becomes an impasse. With nuclear-powered rockets, a space vehicle could be fully powered for many years, making long-distance space travel not just possible, but most probable. ....
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Title: The Hundredth Monkey: And Other Paradigms of the Paranormal by Kendrick Frazier ISBN: 0879756551 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes ISBN: 0960068880 Publisher: Love Line Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Your Heart's Desire: A Loving Relationship by Ken Keyes ISBN: 0915972050 Publisher: Living Love Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Power of Unconditional Love: 21 Guidelines for Beginning, Improving, and Changing Your Most Meaningful Relationships by Ken Keyes ISBN: 0915972190 Publisher: Love Line Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene ISBN: 0375708111 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 |
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