West of Jesus by Steven Kotler
By Steven KotlerA spiritual and scientific surf quest.
After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith. Why, he wondered, when there was nothing left to believe in, could he begin to believe in something as unlikely as surfing. What was belief anyway? How did it work in the body, the brain, our culture, and human history?
Into this mix came a strange story. In 2003, on a surf trip through Mexico, Kotler heard of "the conductor," a mythical surfer who could control the weather. He'd heard this same tale eight years earlier, in Indonesia, but this time something clicked. With the help of everyone from rebel surfers to rocket scientists, Kotler undertakes a three year globetrotting quest for the origins of this legend. The results are a startling mix of big waves and bigger a surfer's journey into the biological underpinnings of belief itself.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 261 pages
- English
- 1596910518
- 9781596910515
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