Seeking a Joyful, Reciprocal Relationship with the Earth with Jon Turk

Join us welcoming Jon back to Carbondale. His last visit was for a live stage performance in 2014 based on his book "The Raven's Gift."

Dr. Jon Turk is a scientist, author, and National Geographic award-winning explorer whose worldview was altered by extended visits with Moolynaut, a Siberian shaman. This relationship has been archived in the book, "The Raven's Gift." Jon has now written his 5th book - this time exploring a landscape, culture and environment far removed from the Artic adventures featured in previous publications.

Jon's new book Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu details his adventure While tracking a lion with a Samburu headman and then, later, eluding human assailants who may be tracking him, Jon Turk experiences people at their best and worst. As the tracker and the tracked, Jon reveals how the stories we tell each other, and the stories spinning in our heads, can be moulded into innovation, love and co-operation — or harnessed to launch armies. Seeking escape from the confusion we create for ourselves and our neighbours with our think-too-much-know-it-all brains, Jon finds liberation within a natural world that spins no fiction.

Set in a high-adventure narrative on the unforgiving savannah, Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu explores the aboriginal wisdoms that endowed our Stone Age ancestors with the power to survive – and how, since then, myth, art, music, dance, and ceremony have often been hijacked and distorted within our urban, scientific, oil-soaked world.

Book signing and conversation with author Jon Turk.
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