Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tearoom

Well, I visited this place when I ran down to visit a friend in Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti who used to work there. This was probably around summer 2002. Upstairs has a cozy tea room, and there are books up and downstairs. The focus is mostly on liberal spirituality, multiculturalism and some feminisim, etc. There was also some “New Age” umm, paraphenelia such as chimes, candles, crystals, and so on. I believe they may have some small music acts perform on occasion, probably acoustic. I thought it was worth visiting, because I knew such places existed, but being a rural Michigander I had never been to one. It is a place where I think I could find people I agree with politically, where some good people meet to organize or chat, but on the bad side there seems to be some, umm, lack of healthy scepticism of flakey pseudo-sciencey things. Crystal therapy, homeopathy, chakra reading machines, etc. This is just based on the books they carry. There is good stuff too, I don’t mean to give a bad impression, just what I saw as the interesting plusses and minuses of the place. It is worth stopping in for a few minutes or more, depending on what you like.