Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #848057 in Books
• Published on: 1992-12
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 236 pages

From the Publisher
A balanced view of an extraordinary phenomenon
Author Jonathan Sternfield approached firewalking as an outsider, as an unbiased commentator and as a professional author. He ultimately went so deep into his research on firewalking as to do it twice himself, perhaps to his own amazement. As he learned and reveals to you:

1/ Firewalking is a real and honest phenomenon, not a fraud or a trick;

2/ Although an ancient rite, it is alive and lively in the U.S.A. today;

3/ More than 100,000 Americans have firewalked in recent years (reportedly more than 23,000 in the past year);

4/ Firewalking has become a corporate management bonding exercise akin to wilderness survival outings and other management training devices;

5/ Not the rare exercise one might assume, firewalking is widespread and widely taught, approaching mainstream status as a self actualization ritual.

Sternfield has written a balanced, honest account of a little understood phenomenon. It is a highly readable source for the firewalking initiate, the prospective firewalker or the curious student and observer. It is NOT an advocacy tract (nor a deterrant one). Nevertheless, it has been acclaimed by leading firewalk instructors as the best book extant on the subject.