Readers! Throw away your Shallice, and run to the bookstore for Austin! This magisterial work, an un-Zen-like 844 pages, divided into 158 chapters, a smorgasbord of reminiscences, data, and observations on Buddhism and neuroscience, interspersed with exercises in Zen meditation. Austin preserves by inclusion rather than selection the skepticism and dialectic that are the essence of Zen teaching, laying out what there is in all its eclectic richness, from Perky to Pavlov, from alpha rhythms to syzygy. In its scholarship and detachment it is a welcome antidote to the assertive fatuity of so much contemporary theory, offering the thesis, even if tacitly, that a subjectivism inferred from symptoms, e.g., hallucination, imagery and altered states, is preferable to an externalist model of cognition inferred from deficits.