Initial Responses and Reviews Are In
“Your book is really good! I like it! You're an excellent writer. Thank you for your work!”
Derrick Jensen (Author of Endgame, The Culture of Make Believe, and A Language Older than Words. Philosopher poet of the deep ecological movement, he also writes for The New York Times Magazine, Audobon, and The Sun Magazine.)
"There's a lot going on in this lean and lovingly crafted work... Krolick uses his own remarkable life story like a reagent to reveal for us the feral heart of the Siberian as his own American assumptions are subsumed in the reaction. The result is a deeply personal story of a rediscovery of ecstatic living... Krolick introduces us to a path at once profoundly kind, human, primal and accessible." Narain Scott
"Whatever you discover on your own journey from reading The Recovery of Ecstasy, I guarantee you will not regret the ride. Sandy Krolick has insight and a genuine love of life that is evident on every page; and he has the gift to communicate it passionately." Wisteria Leigh, Bookworm's Dinner
"Here is a book that is equal parts philosophy, love story, and vision of how we could live a more authentic and joyful life. It is well worth picking up and reading." Alex McGilvery, Armchair Interviews
"I have just finished reading the declaration of yet another among us who survived the ‘trial-by-fire’ that acculturation to western civilization represents...I highly recommend this book." Todd Green, It Must Be The Vapors
From the Foreword
In his new book, Sandy has worked out a way to ... both rid ourselves 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 you will find it possible to identify your “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 you. This double liberation Krolick calls the recovery of ecstasy. Marvin Bram, Ph.D., L.H.D
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Sergei Prokhorov is one of Russia's most highly acclaimed painters. Recently awarded the highest honor available to artists in the Russian Federation by Vladimir Putin, Sergei resides in the city of Barnaul, the capital of the Altai Region, at the foot of the Altai Mountains. Much of his work is the recreation of wild nature as found in his Altai homeland. Sergei's famous "Middle of the Road" is the painting that graces the cover of my new book, The Recovery of Ecstasy: Notebooks from Siberia. You may visit Sergei Prokhorov's work online at his site (in english translation) by clicking his image to the left.