Instead of citing relevant research, he devotes multiple pages to famous people and their original ideas, among them Stephen Hawking and Deepak Chopra (hi

Instead of citing relevant research, he devotes multiple pages to famous people and their original ideas, among them Stephen Hawking and Deepak Chopra (his collaborators on previous books) and Seth MacFarlane, of “Family Guy” fame. His discussion of the novelist Isabel Allende’s mixed success with ayahuasca as a cure for writer’s block is an eye-opener, but on the whole these celebrity testimonials are too weak to provide much insight into the value of elastic thinking. Something of a mild distraction, no? Seems like an addendum to the rest of the cavalcade of characters in a spread-spectrum mass appeal attempt at name dropping. Seems petty to ding someone on the merit of their associations, rather than let their own principles and qualities stand on their own. I'm not saying I'm a fan of this guy. I'm saying I'm not of fan of such trivial mud slinging.