The Recovery of Ecstasy: Notebooks from Siberia

Today there is a familiar sense of self-estrangement that haunts contemporary life in the West. The Recovery of Ecstasy gently and gingerly leads the reader to explore a different way of being in the world. With a detour through the central Siberian Steppe, and drawing upon aspects of Western thought that incorporate deep structures of primal life, the most cherished assumptions of Western civilization are laid bare. This work allows the reader to recover a feral experience of ecstasy resident in each of us - in our genome, so to speak. Reviews: "Your book is really good! I like it! You're an excellent writer. Thank you for your work!" Derrick Jensen (Author of Endgame) "Here is a book that is equal parts philosophy, love story, and vision of how we could live a more authentic and joyful life. It is well worth picking up and reading." Alex McGilvery, Armchair Interviews "There's a lot going on in this lean and lovingly crafted work... Krolick uses his own remarkable life story like a reagent to reveal for us the feral heart of the Siberian as his own American assumptions are subsumed in the reaction. The result is a deeply personal story of a rediscovery of ecstatic living... Krolick introduces us to a path at once profoundly kind, human, primal and accessible." Narain Scott