Annette McGivney: Plastic Shaman
About this Event
Join award-winning author Annette McGiveny as she discusses and signs her latest book, Plastic Shaman, a spiritual quest turns into a fatal disaster in this gripping true crime investigation of the wellness industry. In conversation with Maurice Crandall.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In October 2009, more than fifty people attended a $10,000-per-person wellness
retreat led by a celebrity self-help guru. For these enlightenment seekers, their time in Sedona, Arizona, culminated in a fake Native American sweat lodge ceremony. Three of them would not make it out alive.
This tragedy exposes the dangerous truth about the booming $2 trillion wellness industry where promises of spiritual awakening and financial success often mask dangerous practices underpinned by cultural appropriation and commodification of the nature. Journalist Annette McGivney explores this world, exposing the manipulation and greed that allow charismatic influencers to prey on vulnerable people in search of happiness and healing--no matter the cost.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANNETTE MCGIVNEY is an award-winning author of five nonfiction books including Pure Land, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. She taught journalism at Northern Arizona University and is a longtime reporter for Outside, Backpacker, The Guardian, Runners World, and Arizona Highways. She lives in Cortez, Colorado.
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