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More info The founder of the London Philosophical Club lies in the snow after a terrible fall on alpine skiing. But he does not think about the newly broken spine: he is absorbed in a feeling of peace and happiness, previously unknown to him. According to the author, it was this feeling that helped him quickly restore health and suggested the thought: why does modern Western society limit itself to rational philosophy, while other states of mind are available to any of us? The answer is this book: A striking, witty and gripping guide to different states of consciousness beyond rationality and how to achieve them — from church services and meditations to experiments with psychedelics and corporate ecstasy. The book is full of truly English humor, startling facts, and includes personal history, interviews, quotes from ancient and modern philosophers. Jules Evans is one of the founders of the London Philosophers’ Club, who has devoted many years to the study of Stoic philosophy. Lectures on practical philosophy around the world. He is also the author of reputable publications: the Wall Street Journal, The Times, Psychologies. Works at the Center for the Study of the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. Abstract Religious rituals and rock festivals, meditations and extremist groups, temples of tantric love, experiments with psychedelics, cybernetic happenings, corporate ecstasies — they all serve the same purpose. Namely: to satisfy the key human need for merging with something greater than himself. The book is conceived in the form of a festival, where each chapter is a symbolic zone: one of the ways people turn to for ecstatic experiences. This is a large-scale modern look at the history of a person’s transcendence of rationality, seasoned with a story of personal transformation, English humor, amazing facts and sayings of ancient and modern thinkers — from Plato and Aristotle to Timothy Leary and Steve Jobs. Jules Evans, one of the organizers of the London Philosophers’ Club, gives lectures on practical philosophy around the world. He is also the author of reputable publications: the Wall Street Journal, The Times, Psychologies. Works at the Center for the Study of the History of Emotions, Queen Mary University of London. He devoted several years of his life to the philosophy of the Stoics, but after the incident described in the book, he turned to the study of the ecstatic experiences of mankind. …
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