This book is like wading into the shallow side of a stream only to find you misjudged the depth! A gem of a book, I was surprised to find this offered for free, so strongly suggest that you snatch it up if you want something to deeply savor.
The book is a collection of about 17 essays; some published elsewhere and now collected in this volume. Because each was written separately, there is a clarity and poetic vision to the theme far deeper than you would find in other books where chapters were written as cogs to fulfill the requirements of an overall volume. On the other hand, the essays synch together amazingly well and provide a beginning, a journey, and a complete cycle when the ending is reached.
So is it about Yoga? Writing? Again, you fall into depths deeper than you thought. What is real? What incorporates the core of self-actualization? – the body or the mind? Does writing demand the wild extravagances of imagination or is a focused discipline? How is our body linked to the spiritual?
As the practice of Yoga has become mainstreamed, the West continues to try to separate the spirit from the practice. JMO but this is to make it more palatable to organizations/groups (i.e. work, school etc…) that shy from anything labeled spiritual. The word spiritual worries people who feel their religious beliefs may be threatened if they have to think of anything outside of their narrow view of what they have been taught as spiritual.
Yet can we separate the physical self from the mind/spiritual self? This book asks you these questions in a well written, masterful command of writing that knocked my socks off. Again, each chapter is a thoughtful gem and demands a full savoring. I would approach this book by reading one chapter, and taking the time to digest the meal before progressing with the next entrée.
I will definitely be looking at other writings by this author. It's also the first non-fiction, free ebook I've downloaded that I would have been happy to pay $2.99 for.
P.S. my only negative is I do not like the generic appearance of the cover to the ebook as it definitely deserves a lovely cover.
Reviewed by Cinnabarys.com
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