West of Jesus
by Steven Kotler
Kotler's surf memoir and search for the neuroscience of flow and mystical experience after Lyme disease. Where his later flow work began.
Read it if…
you want Kotler before the flow books.
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Skip it if…
you want his systematic work; see The Art of Impossible.
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Three things you will actually use
- Flow heals, in its way.
- Seek the state.
- Science and awe can coexist.
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Read the chapters on surfing's effect on his illness.
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Kotler's origin.
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