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How quasi-religious ‘retreats’ became a £500bn business
Nat Segnit s new book Retreat looks at far-flung retreat centres, where meditation has become ‘the religion of no religion’
26 July 2021 • 5:00am
Edward Lear s painting of Mount Athos in Greece, one of the locations Nat Segnit visits in Retreat
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The word “retreat” is now deployed not just for the religious ritual of withdrawal from the world to reflect, but also as part of a global mindfulness tourist industry that, according to Nat Segnit, is worth almost £500 billion each year. Even with institutional religion in steep decline in the West, the retreat continues to have an active resonance in our self-avowedly secular and sceptical world. ....

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