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DescriptionThis is an exploration of life's mysteries prompted by the author's young son asking: Where on earth is heaven? This led to the TV series, "The Long Search", and to film making in the African Bush with Lawrence van der Post, the hill temples of northern India, San Francisco, a Taiwanese funeral, by train to Arcadia and by bicycle through the lanes of Cornwall - and through his encounter with scientists, artists and philosophers. He believes that a new spirituality is emerging that goes beyond the dualism of phrases like 'spirit and matter', life and death', heaven and earth'. Reviews"'A deeply thoughtful book, the result of a lifetime of thinking, reading, and conversations with an amazing cast of people,' - Sir Mark Tully 'A real quest, with outward work perfectly integrated with an inner search,' - Karen Armstrong 'A thoughtful book by a thoughtful man, '- Ben Okri Foreword by Richard Tarnas, author of Passions of the Western Mind" Author descriptionDistinguished BBC documentary film maker of over 150 films. He won the BAFTA Robert Flaherty Award in 1968 for In Need of Special Care about a Camphill school in Scotland for children with special needs - a film typical of the gentle and sensitive style of film-making that has won him so much praise over the years. |