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Shelagh Rogers speaks with award-winning outdoors journalist Maria Coffey about the link between extreme sports and spirituality

Posted by Words At Large Admin on October 28 at 12:00 AM

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Explorers of the InfiniteCan intense physical exertion open the door to spiritual enlightenment?

Outdoors journalist Maria Coffey ponders the connection between extreme sports and spirituality in her latest book, Explorers of the Infinite: The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes and What They Reveal About Near-Death Experiences, Psychic Communications, and Touching the Beyond (Tarcher/Penguin).

Coffey and her husband, photographer Dag Goering, run Hidden Places, an adventure travel company based in Victoria, B.C. She has published 11 books, and her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and the Globe and Mail, among other magazines and newspapers. Her book Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow was serialized in Outdoor magazine and won the Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in 2003.

In this feature interview from The Next Chapter, host Shelagh Rogers speaks with Maria Coffey about her near-drowning experience and the genesis of Explorers of the Infinite. There’s more in the podcast of the show.

First aired October 26, 2008 on The Next Chapter. [runs 18:34]

Catch The Next Chapter on Saturdays at 3 p.m. EST (3:30 NT) on CBC Radio One, or listen online.

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