In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with Mark Matousek about Writing to Awaken. Amongst other things we talk about how he landed a job working for Andy Warhol at the Factory, his early life, writing as a refuge, hardship, seekers, asking questions, Andrew Harvey scholar and mystic, going to India, Memoir, telling the truth and how that can transform you, and what he has learnt from his teaching about writing.
Mark Matousek is an award-winning author of eight books, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story, The Boy He Left Behind, When You’re Falling, Dive, Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life, Ethical Wisdom for Friends, Mother of the Unseen World, Writing To Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery, and Lessons From an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, including The New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine, Details, Tricycle, Good Housekeeping, and Harper’s Bazaar. He blogs regularly for Psychology Today and offers courses in creativity and spiritual growth around the world using the Writing to Awaken method.
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This is what Ken Wilber said about Sex Death Enlightenment:
Mark Matousek tasted the intensity of the surface, the glamour, the unrelenting rush: scratching at the surface, he found more surfaces, in an endless self-reflecting high that finally broke under its own weightlessness and propelled him, often against his own will on a remarkable journey of spiritual self-discovery. This is the story of an extraordinary journey’.
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