'Reads at times like Eat Pray Love as written by David Foster
Wallace. A rich and almost eerily timely book' William Fiennes,
author of The Snow Geese Stepping back from the world is an ancient
human impulse. Over the last year we have had to retreat. But
throughout history, we have chosen to. We were doing it more and
more, anyway. Mindfulness and meditation are all the rage. Wellness
tourism, yoga breaks, meditation apps, and spiritual boot camps
have been booming - entry-level to hardcore. Retreat investigates
this human obsession, mining neuroscience, psychology and history
to reveal why we seek solitude, what we get out of it, and what is
going on in our brains and bodies when we achieve it. What has it
meant to the world's great thinkers, and what does it mean, in our
age, as an activity we pay for? Is isolation a means of engaging
more fully with reality, or evading it? And what has retreat meant
at a time when humanity has - to an unprecedented extent - been
forced to withdraw? Nat Segnit has felt the pull of solitude and
the fear of it, as well as the warmth of company. To answer these
questions, he has been on retreats around the world and met yogic
scholars, cognitive and social scientists, religious leaders,
philosophers and artists. Retreat is endlessly enlightening,
sceptical and open-minded. It is about seeking happiness,
fulfilment, a change of perspective, and relief from stress and
anxiety. And it is surprisingly, joyously, full of human encounter.
Ultimately, it is about the discovery that retreat is a mental
state that can be achieved anywhere, in a monastery or shopping
centre, a cave or a crowd.
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