EXPLORERS OF THE INFINITE
Posted: May 15, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Banff Mountain Book Festival, BASE jumping, Coffey, Dean Potter, Dick Rutan, Extreme sport, Lou Whittaker, Tanya Streeter Leave a commentCome Meet Maria Coffey, award winning author of:
The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes—and What They Reveal About Near-Death Experiences, Psychic Communication, and Touching the Beyond
Join award winning author Maria Coffey for the launch of her new book, EXPLORERS OF THE INFINITE. During the launch Maria will be interviewed onstage by Princeton neuroscientist Dr. Sam Wang.
Friday
Cover via Amazon
May 30 at 8:00 p.m.
at
The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
150 West 17th Street
New York City
Join us before the event for drinks in the K2 Lounge
(cash bar) beginning at 7:00 p.m.
What compels extreme adventurers to push at the boundaries of human ability? And what do they discover on the other side? EXPLORERS OF THE INFINITE unveils some astonishing answers to these questions. Many extreme mountaineers, snowboarders, kayakers, surfers, BASE jumpers and other athletes share a common, but rarely talked about bond: their extraordinary spiritual transformations and paranormal experiences. Ranging from fleeting mystical moments to precognition, psychic communication and encounters with ghosts, these experiences, says Coffey, could be a key part of what drives such adventurers. In Explorers of The Infinite, she sets out to discover if the intense state of “aliveness” that is the allure of extreme sports is a route to transcendence and paranormal powers.
Coffey reviews cutting-edge scientific research on paranormal phenomena, and consults the history of philosophy and spirituality. She draws previously unshared stories of mystical encounters from an array of adventurers including veteran Himalayan mountaineer Lou Whittaker, high-liner Dean Potter, world champion free
diver Tanya Streeter, long distance aviator Dick Rutan, and many other notable adventure athletes.
diver Tanya Streeter, long distance aviator Dick Rutan, and many other notable adventure athletes.
Compelling, well-researched and filled with adrenaline-packed stories, EXPLORERS OF THE INFINITE reveals how extreme adventurers push into new realms of consciousness, what they encounter there, and what we can learn from them.
Maria Coffey is an award winning outdoors journalist and the author of numerous books, including the Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow, winner of the 2004 Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. Coffey lives on Vancouver Island, where she and her husband run Hidden Places, an adventure travel company.
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