ALL KINDS OF MAGIC: A QUEST FOR MEANING IN A MATERIAL WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 02000009B32509
English Summary/英文概要： In April 2004, Piers Moore Ede embarked on a very unusual journey. Disheartened by a world seemingly hooked on material wealth and scientific fact, he decided to travel the world in search of something completely other - the magical, the mystical, the numinous. In "All Kinds of Magic", Piers recounts this voyage of re-enchantment, which led him from snow-blanketed villages in the Himalayas to a dappled, ancient Sufi quarter in Delhi; from the world’s largest religious festival on the banks of the swollen Ganges to tiny, covert communities of whirling dervishes in rural Turkey. He met remarkable individuals who appeared to be able to heal any ailment, channel powerful deities, glimpse the future or transcend everyday consciousness by imbibing strange, bitter herbs. Along the way he began to explore what spirituality means to us now, and what it can and ought to mean in our looming future of political, economic and environmental uncertainty. Lyrical and clear-sighted, "All Kinds of Magic" is a fascinating quest to the hidden world of miracles that is at once deeply personal and universal in its scope.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者帶你遠離世俗，找到心靈寄託 2004年4月，作者Piers Moore Ede展開非比尋常的旅程。他覺得現今世界上的人似乎對物質上癮和財富著迷，完全忽略心靈方面的成長。 灰心的他，決定到世界各地旅行，探索自我和心靈寄託。
這段尋找自我旅程的第一站，就是白雪藹藹的喜馬拉雅山。
接著，他來到了印度恆河河畔，觀看上千萬名印度教人士將身體浸泡在零下十度的河水，試圖洗淨身上的罪孽。
最後，他探訪古老蘇菲教的發源地土耳其。在一個隱蔽小村，Piers Moore Ede 看到一群僧侶頭戴高帽，身穿白長袍，在音樂的陪襯下，藉由不停旋轉舞蹈的儀式，作為人類世界和另一個神祕的世界的媒介。
在這段探索心靈的期間，他遇見不少能治百病、看見神明和預知未來的奇人，不禁開始思索心靈成長和宗教信仰對現代都市人的意義。在這個經濟、政治不穩定的世界，我們的生活儼然少了一些什麼……(Jennifer)
Awards/获奖情况：★“Piers Moore Ede 是位非常有才華的年輕作家”~ 英國衛報
★ 暢銷前作《蜂蜜與塵土》(Honey and Dust) 榮獲 D. H. Lawrence 最佳旅遊心靈寫作獎項
Reviews
’A wild pilgrimage across the mystic world, taken in order to embark on the shortest and hardest journey of all - the almost impossible one from the head to the heart. Piers Moore Ede is both an elegant and courageous traveller and teller of this rite of passage’---Justine Hardy, author of The Wonder House ~ 賈斯汀˙哈迪, 英國金融時報記者與旅遊文紀《奇蹟屋》作者
’Piers Moore Ede writes with a rare sensitivity, describing the lands that pass beneath his feet with lyrical prose. His work is reminiscent of the great names in British travel writing. I could not recommend his work more highly’---Tahir Shah, author of The Caliph’s House ~ 塔希爾．沙赫,《哈里發的神殿：卡薩布蘭卡的365天》作者
About the Author/作者介绍： Piers Moore Ede 曾有許多不同的工作經歷，包括農夫、船伕、衝浪教練、文學老師和烘培師傅。他經常旅遊，並在文學、旅遊、和環保為主題的各大報章雜誌發表文章，包括 “Daily Telegraph”、〈泰晤士報〉文學副刊、”Ecologist”、”Traveller” 和 “Earth Island Journal”。 他的暢銷前作《蜂蜜與塵土》(“Honey and Dust” ; 簡體版權已售) 榮獲 D. H. Lawrence 最佳旅遊心靈寫作獎項。
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