Book description
In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise; but
silence can change your life and this book explains why and how. Silence
is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of
all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by
turning up the volume control. Graham Turner explores the power that can
be found in silence through interviewing monastics, religious leaders,
composers, actors, psychotherapists, prisoners and peace workers about
their experiences of practising silence. Ranging from Christian
contemplation in the Egyptian desert to Vipassana meditation in India,
from the shared silence of Quaker meetings in Oxford to the profound
stillness of the Alps, this is a powerful book about a great gap in
modern human awareness. After gaining a first class degree at Oxford,
Graham Turner worked for The Scotsman and The Sunday Times. He then
became nationally recognised as the BBC's first Economics Correspondent.
Thereafter he worked for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph
writing substantial features which had considerable national influence.
He currently lives in Oxford.
