Technoshamans: Between spirituality and technology - A journey to the end of the world to cure a chronic back ache
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (913 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00607DBKI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"a hip, compellingly readable user's manual for the modern mind" according to elspeth. This book combines travel reportage with dead-pan humor and a deep investigation into the sources of modern spirituality and the means--both ritualistic and technological--to access them. clearly the fruit of loooong immersion in the subjct, it reads like a streak and has the . Truly Excellent! ELI (Italy) An autobiographical book that was conceived, and starts with, a calvary due to a chronic backache, leading to a collage of interesting experiences and journeys throughout the world, trying different treatments. But is it really just about a backache?The author and journalist C. The author is my friend, but I am not biased in my review !!! Alejandro Junger I am a physician and a writer. Some of the most interesting chats about medicine and spirituality I had with the author of this book, Carlo, who has been a good friend of mine for almost 15 years. So it was no surprise when he wrote this book and it turned out as interesting a
About the Author Born in Switzerland, but raised in a valley at the foot of the Dolomites north of Venice, he left home at 16 to be schooled in Pensacola, Florida, Washington D.C. Carlo Pizzati's passion for writing stories and for adventure led him to travel the globe for more than 16 years, reporting for the Italian daily newspaper "La Repubblica" from cities as spread out as Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago del Chile, Manila and Shanghai. For more information: carlopizzati . He also produced and directed 30 investigative documentaries, has been editor in chief of Italy's most viewed website, launched a start up in Madrid and hosted a morning political talk show in Italy, where he's published his first novel, "Criminàl" No one can quite pin point where he lives, shuttling between India, Italy and California. and finally get his master in Journalism at Columbia U
Still interested in probing the relationships between technology and spirituality, medicine and mindfulness, he flies back to his homeland to sample some of the local youth culture and put his quest in perspective. The driving force of the book is the narrator’s quest for relief for a bad back which has tortured him for twenty years. No mystical question would be complete without a passage to India. Technoshamans is a humorous, illuminating narrative non-fiction book in which the author roams the world searching for places where technology and spirituality intersect. He continues on to Mysore, a destination for well-heeled yoga practitioners, and to Kerala, where he discusses technology and spirituality with Dr. Sambhu, a celebrated ayurvedic practitioner known among other things for his mysterious Big Enema, a concoction of oil and herbs carried in the aforementioned diapers by many Chicago commodity traders. He attends several raves, l
For more information: carlopizzati . and finally get his master in Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Born in Switzerland, but raised in a valley at the foot of the Dolomites north of Venice, he left home at 16 to be schooled in Pensacola, Florida, Washington D.C. Carlo now devotes himself full-time to fiction and screenplay writing and trying not to get his 20 year old motorcycle stolen, the only thing he owns which is larger than