Stop All the Clocks: More Conversations with Shaman, Taiji Master, Rainforest Jef Crab became a book accidentally, as the result of online chats with Jef. It’s now out in print.
Watch for the audio book – out soon, already recorded. Jef came up from his home in Suriname, on the edge of the rainforest, to read his chat lines at La La Land studios in Louisville, KY. Did I say chat lines? Rather;
Stop All the Clocks is not an interview. It’s a séance.
In this haunting, often hilarious, wildly original collection, Jef Crab doesn’t just answer questions — he disrupts time. Across these conversations, you’re not flipping pages — you’re falling into a philosophical rabbit hole. But it’s shaped like a funhouse mirror.
What if Beckett met Burroughs in a dive bar run by Borges? I joke, but it’s true.
Jef Crab responds with riddles, reversals, and gut-punch truths. Many revelations from his own life are forthcoming, such as how he discovered his life purpose by dying. Each exchange feels like a miniature detonation — but is not so surprisingly strangely healing.
This is a book that wrestles with:
• 🔥 How to stay human in a world engineered to flatten you
Stop All the Clocks will leave you rattled, laughing, and slightly rearranged.
MORE: Ron Whitehead is a third spectacular reader for this audio.
Back to Stop All the Clocks.
The book opens with my death that didn’t happen. The forecast itself dwindled into nothing. It was put on indefinite delay.
And how I saw the diversion steered away from head-on confrontation-with-death in a vision ten years before. Yes, I saw it stopped in its tracks, and the enactment stalled, waiting years to step into Life. But it did. And got stopped in its tracks. For how long? We never know. But it’s four years later, and the diversion to another Life Track is holding solid.
This book dives deep, acting as a wizard wand to reveal secrets laid out in An Underground Principia but perhaps less accessible there. Reviewing An Underground PRINCIPIA in 2024, Jef Crab worried: “How many people will be able to grasp the depth of the principles you describe? It is amazing enough that you take a lifetime of experiences and connect them into a driving force that leads to the realization of one’s purpose. Even more amazing is that you include the most subtle levels of existence that play a role in these processes. Most breathtakingly, by reading An Underground PRINCIPIA, the reader can gain the insight that all of this is happening, not in one lifetime, whether human or universal, but in an eternal now. Amazing achievement.”
Why not complement that depth with very accessible personal stories? reveal deeply mystical, miraculous consciousness experiences that neither of us even knew the other had had.? Create out of this obstacle a Giant Opportunity? And so with Jef in a house he built on the edge of the Suriname rainforest and myself in Raleigh, NC, the Skype chats began.
They barely needed refinements. However, I did surround them with interesting odds and ends. The topics ranged far and wide but kept recycling back to “the Earth.” Also to our experiences and spiritual initiations, what we had learned. Living on the edge of the rainforest in Suriname, Jef has a particular point of view that he authentically lives. It fits right in with my values. So we were off into a gripping dialogue. Join us. And write to me any questions and reactions. Should we do a follow-up?
