After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind.
Why, he wondered, when there was nothing left to believe in, could he begin to believe in something as unlikely as surfing? What was Belief anyway? How did it work in the body, the brain, our culture, and human history? With the help of everyone from rebel surfers to rocket scientists, Kotler undertakes a t.
Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of Surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith.
Kotler is often laugh-out-loud funny.-San Francisco Chronicle Kotler\'s tale starts slow and then, like a seasoned surfer calibrating his board to his ride, monumentally catches stride...
Call it mysterioso or the oceanic feeling, what Kotler\'s seeking is nothing less than the big explanation.-Village Voice After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind.
Praise for West of Jesus West of Jesus is one of the smartest books ever about the sport and religion of surfing.-Los Angeles Magazine The ideal book for any readers who have ever asked themselves, \'How did Surfing take over my life?\' Kotler brings us closer to the answers via a wild, globe-trotting journey in search of surfing\'s much-referenced but rarely discussed spiritual side.-Los Angeles Times A surprisingly entertaining nonfiction account of his own spiritual quest through surfing...
He lives in Los Angeles.
His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Discover, Outside, Details, Wired, Men\'s Journal, and elsewhere.
Crawford IAFA Fantasy Award.
Steven Kotler\'s novel The Angle Quickest for Flight was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and won the William L.
The results are a startling mix of big waves and bigger ideas: a surfer\'s journey into the biological underpinnings of Belief itself.
Why, he wondered, when there was nothing left to believe in, could he begin to believe in something as unlikely as surfing? What was Belief anyway? How did it work in the body, the brain, our culture, and human history? With the help of everyone from rebel surfers to rocket scientists, Kotler undertakes a three-year globetrotting quest.
Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of Surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith.
After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind
