Western society has never been more interested in interiority.
Indeed, it seems more and more people are deliberately looking
inward--toward the mind, the body, or both. Michal Pagis's Inward
focuses on one increasingly popular channel for the introverted
gaze: vipassana meditation, which has spread from Burma to over
forty countries and counting. Lacing her account with vivid
anecdotes and personal stories, Pagis turns our attention not only
to the practice of vipassana but to the communities that have
sprung up around it. Inward is also a social history of the
westward diffusion of Eastern religious practices spurred on by the
lingering effects of the British colonial presence in India. At the
same time Pagis asks knotty questions about what happens when we
continually turn inward, as she investigates the complex relations
between physical selves, emotional selves, and our larger social
worlds. Her book sheds new light on evergreen topics such as
globalization, social psychology, and the place of the human body
in the enduring process of self-awareness.
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