About Death, Happiness and… kulturCritic Releases 'The Recovery of Ecstasy'
In a world gone mad, a book about coming back to one’s senses and rediscovering oneself. Amidst the helter-skelter and all-too-familiar estrangement that haunts life in America today, The Recovery of Ecstasy: Notebooks from Siberia gently, gingerly, leads the reader to explore a different way of being in the world.
Geneva, NY, February 14, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Reflecting upon life during a three-year span in the Central Siberian Steppe, the book, perhaps a confession of sorts is more a philosophical and therapeutic rumination than a chronicle of events. It asks people to think historically, philosophically, and introspectively about what the author came to believe was the central meaning of life and the broader implications of that conviction – that the image of one’s life as moving deliberately forward to some anticipated future is a destructive fantasy of modern thought. With the world on the edge of economic, social and political collapse, and "spiritual crises" hovering thick in the air, there are some basic facts that people must face as they look to the current state of themselves, the culture, and the future of Western civilization.
The Recovery of Ecstasy is a serious but friendly book intended to help people recuperate from the emptiness and anonymity of contemporary life. It looks at where they have been, how they have been made profoundly sick, and how they can get well again. Drawing upon aspects of Western philosophy that incorporate deep structures of primal life along with insights from the East, the most cherished assumptions of American society are laid bare, allowing the reader to recover a feral experience of ecstasy resident in every human being – in the genome, so to speak.
“…In his latest book, Sandy has worked out a way to both rid his readers of the suffering of death-terror and re-conceive the past so that the new conception fills rather than empties each present moment. From one direction, take away arguably the deepest source of human suffering; from the other direction bring back arguably the deepest source of human happiness..."
"Here one will find it possible to identify a “feral self,” who yearns to live in the moment, unburdened by a heavy and cheerless past the 21st century ardently wants to place on your shoulders and by a future with which the 21st century ardently wants to sicken one. This double liberation Krolick calls the recovery of ecstasy.”
Marvin Bram, Ph.D., L.H.D.
The Recovery of Ecstasy is now available through most online retailers including www.amazon.com, www.Alibris.com, www.Abebooks.com, www.BookSurge.com, and www.kulturcritic.com. Or ask for it at your favorite local bookshop. Requests for interviews or book signings can be made by contacting Sandy in New York (646) 420-1258 or email sandy@kulturcritic.com.
About the author
With advanced degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago, Sandy Krolick has taught in universities at home and abroad. He spent many years, as well, in the executive ranks of multi-nationals like Ernst & Young, General Electric, and Computer Sciences Corporation. He recently returned to the USA with his wife, after living and teaching in the central Siberian Steppe for three years. Other published works include Recollective Resolve: A Phenomenological Understanding of Time and Myth, and Gandhi in the Postmodern Age: Issues in War and Peace. Visit @ www.kulturCritic.com.
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The Recovery of Ecstasy is a serious but friendly book intended to help people recuperate from the emptiness and anonymity of contemporary life. It looks at where they have been, how they have been made profoundly sick, and how they can get well again. Drawing upon aspects of Western philosophy that incorporate deep structures of primal life along with insights from the East, the most cherished assumptions of American society are laid bare, allowing the reader to recover a feral experience of ecstasy resident in every human being – in the genome, so to speak.
“…In his latest book, Sandy has worked out a way to both rid his readers of the suffering of death-terror and re-conceive the past so that the new conception fills rather than empties each present moment. From one direction, take away arguably the deepest source of human suffering; from the other direction bring back arguably the deepest source of human happiness..."
"Here one will find it possible to identify a “feral self,” who yearns to live in the moment, unburdened by a heavy and cheerless past the 21st century ardently wants to place on your shoulders and by a future with which the 21st century ardently wants to sicken one. This double liberation Krolick calls the recovery of ecstasy.”
Marvin Bram, Ph.D., L.H.D.
The Recovery of Ecstasy is now available through most online retailers including www.amazon.com, www.Alibris.com, www.Abebooks.com, www.BookSurge.com, and www.kulturcritic.com. Or ask for it at your favorite local bookshop. Requests for interviews or book signings can be made by contacting Sandy in New York (646) 420-1258 or email sandy@kulturcritic.com.
About the author
With advanced degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago, Sandy Krolick has taught in universities at home and abroad. He spent many years, as well, in the executive ranks of multi-nationals like Ernst & Young, General Electric, and Computer Sciences Corporation. He recently returned to the USA with his wife, after living and teaching in the central Siberian Steppe for three years. Other published works include Recollective Resolve: A Phenomenological Understanding of Time and Myth, and Gandhi in the Postmodern Age: Issues in War and Peace. Visit @ www.kulturCritic.com.
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