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''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

Retreat The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 1/17/2021
      ISBN13: 9781847925831, 978-1847925831
      ISBN10: 1847925839
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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

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