Freedom from control. How to go beyond internal restrictions

The book is conceived in the form of a festival, where each chapter is a symbolic zone: one of the ways that people turn to to obtain ecstatic experiences. This is a large -scale modern view of the history of man’s exit beyond rationality, seasoned with the story of personal transformation, English humor, amazing facts and statements of ancient and modern thinkers - from Plato and Aristotle to Timothy Liri and Steve Jobs.
Jules Evans - one of the organizers of the London Club of Philosophers, conducts lectures of practical philosophy around the world. He is also the author of authoritative publications: The Wall Street Journal, The Times, Psychologies. He works at the Center for the Study of the History of Emotions of London University of Queen Mary.
He devoted several years of his life to the philosophy of the Stoics, but after the case described in the book, he turned to the study of the ecstatic experiences of mankind