Smoke Hole

Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass

by Martin Shaw

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Pub Date May 20 2021 | Archive Date May 06 2021

Chelsea Green Publishing

Nonfiction (Adult) | Religion & Spirituality | Self-Help

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Description

Through the Smoke Hole, we will find beauty in the wild. Through the Smoke Hole, we will escape the gaze of the Spyglass and find ourselves.

Assailed by seductive promises and controlled by social media, we are losing our sense of direction. We are losing ourselves. We have networks, not communities.

At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our lives – identity, technology, trust, love, politics and global pandemic, celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole: three metaphors for the modern world – a commons of imagination.

Let us journey together, and these stories be your ally – hold them in your pocket, breathe deeper, feel steadier and become acquainted with rapture.

Through the Smoke Hole, we will find beauty in the wild. Through the Smoke Hole, we will escape the gaze of the Spyglass and find ourselves.

Assailed by seductive promises and controlled by social...

A Note From the Publisher

A Note from Martin Shaw:

“The reality is that many of us are lonely, disorientated, sometimes afraid. There was no ceremonial announcement for the initiation we were falling into, but I want to offer us three navigational tools for climbing out.
Growing Your Hands Back: we’ve been encouraged to touch nothing this last period of time. How do we move back out into the world in a new way?
Breaking Enchantments: many of us have spent far too long in our own head, stewing in fantasy not imagination. This has to stop.

Kicking The Robbers Out Of The House: apprehending social media and the internet not as an influencer or savior but as a tool.

Three roads, three strands, three stories.“

A Note from Martin Shaw:

“The reality is that many of us are lonely, disorientated, sometimes afraid. There was no ceremonial announcement for the initiation we were falling into, but I want to...

Advance Praise

"With potent, lyrical language and a profound knowledge of storytelling, Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own lives. He is a modern-day bard."– Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles

"I can still remember the first time I heard Martin Shaw tell a story. The tale that emerged was like a living thing, bounding around, throwing itself at us there listening. I had never heard anything like it before."–Paul Kingsnorth, Booker shortlisted author of The Wake

"Martin Shaw’s work is so very beautiful. A new animal. His love of images is deep and contagious."–Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi

"Shaw has so much wisdom and knowledge about the old stories, it emanates from his pores."–John Densmore, The Doors