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Opinion | How Silence Became a Luxury Product nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 Credit: Getty Images 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. ....
Why burned-out parents are travelling solo post-lockdown Have months of confinement got you secretly yearning to get away from it all? Even your family? You’re not the only one. 4 July 2021 • 5:00am Tour operators are reporting a rise in bookings by mothers travelling solo. Wellness escapes are particularly in demand Credit: Getty One bright June morning, before the world had woken up, I stole out of the house – guiltily, stealthily – and left London for the south coast. I felt like the Bolter from Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, abandoning child and husband to chase my own hedonistic desires. Not, in my case, to seduce lovers without number, but for a two-day landscape painting holiday in East Sussex. ....
'Sentimental' Spielberg versus 'chilly' Kubrick: why A.I. is a misunderstood sci-fi masterpiece telegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From Kubrick to Spielberg: The Story of 'A.I.' theringer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theringer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.