sandy krolick, ph.d.kulturCritic
studies cultural, philosophical and global
By virtue of natality and the ability to act
each new individual poses a threat to civilization...
the child carries barbarism within him or her
(Einer Overenget, Hannah Arendt)
!!!NOW AVAILABLE!!!
The Recovery of Ecstasy:
Notebooks From Siberia
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
In a world gone mad, this is 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 gently, gingerly, leads the reader to explore a different way of being in the world. A serious but friendly book, it looks at where we have been, how we have been made profoundly sick, and how we can get well again.
The Recovery of Ecstasy:
Notebooks From Siberia
Returning from three years in the Siberian Steppe and, more than twenty years since his last publication, Sandy unleashes a firestorm of cultural critique and commentary, wrapped around the warmth of a loosely philosophical memoir.
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 we must face as we look to the current state of our selves, our culture, and the future of Western civilization. With a detour through the Central Siberian Steppe, and drawing upon aspects of Western philosophy that incorporate deep structures of primal life along with insights from the East, the most cherished assumptions of Western civilization are laid bare, revealing a feral experience of ecstasy resident in every human being - in our genome, so to speak.
Click on avatar to purchase a copy of
The Recovery of Ecstasy
at a 20% discount!
Enter Discount Code
MUVGJ695
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
__________________________________________
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.
