James LaFond, a science-fiction writer who has authored such counter-culture self help books as When You're Food and Taboo You, uses the tools of the writer of speculative fiction to explore the subtext of the postmodern American life. This series of 12 insightfully humorous essays includes: The Extinction of Men To Step On God's Toe M Welcome to Manginastan The Fall of the Garden of Ishtar And the GQ Mugging Inquest The Third Eye is an examination of alienated engagement and emasculation in postmodern America, and is the immediate prequel to Incubus of Your Sacred Emasculation.