Parody, intellectual slapstick, and a mind-twisting surprise ending unite in this novel to produce a highly entertaining summary of the work of cutting-edge theorists in human development from around the world. A naï ve young computer science graduate student's quest for meaning provides the setting to contrast scientific materialism with an integral vision that embraces body, mind, soul, and spirit. Embedded within the novel's teachings is a cogent critique of how boomer beliefs in personal freedom, pluralism, and diversity mutated into rampant self-regard, the victim syndrome, and self-serving notions about nature and the inner child.