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The Tao of Bowie: 10 Lessons from David Bowie's Life to Help You Live Yours
What would David Bowie do?
When life gets tough, who can we turn to for help? Who will help us find happiness, meaning and purpose? The Tao of Bowie suggests that we turn to David Bowie for guidance - and use his amazing journey through life as a map to help us navigate our own.
Buddhism was central to David Bowie's life, but he was a wide-ranging thinker who also drew meaning from other sources including Jungian psychology, Nietzschean philosophy and Gnosticism. The Tao of Bowie condenses these concepts - the ideas that inspired and supported Bowie throughout his life and career - into ten powerful lessons, each with a series of exercises, meditations and techniques to encourage readers to apply these learnings to their own lives.
The Tao of Bowie will help readers understand who they really are, clarify their purpose in life, manage their emotions and cope with setbacks and change. This fresh approach to the search for spirituality and happiness unites the perennial human quest for answers with the extraordinary mind and unique career of one of the most important cultural figures of the past half-century.
When life gets tough, who can we turn to for help? Who will help us find happiness, meaning and purpose? The Tao of Bowie suggests that we turn to David Bowie for guidance - and use his amazing journey through life as a map to help us navigate our own.
Buddhism was central to David Bowie's life, but he was a wide-ranging thinker who also drew meaning from other sources including Jungian psychology, Nietzschean philosophy and Gnosticism. The Tao of Bowie condenses these concepts - the ideas that inspired and supported Bowie throughout his life and career - into ten powerful lessons, each with a series of exercises, meditations and techniques to encourage readers to apply these learnings to their own lives.
The Tao of Bowie will help readers understand who they really are, clarify their purpose in life, manage their emotions and cope with setbacks and change. This fresh approach to the search for spirituality and happiness unites the perennial human quest for answers with the extraordinary mind and unique career of one of the most important cultural figures of the past half-century.
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February 27, 2021
“𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜” ~ 𝙱𝚞𝚍𝚍𝚑𝚊
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 is an incredibly original and interesting perspective on both David Bowie’s life and spiritual, philosophical, and cultural teachings within the self-help genre. Edwards explores the multiple ideas that inspired and supported Bowie throughout his life and iconic career. Each chapter delves deeper into the powerful lessons that influenced him at different points in his life and ends with a series of exercises, meditations, and techniques that readers can apply to their own lives.
A variety of powerful ideas are unearthed within this small, beautifully designed book, including:
✨Don’t take your thoughts so seriously.
✨Hold your sense of self very lightly indeed.
✨When you meet your edge don’t tighten - soften.
✨Stay open to love.
I didn’t know a lot about Bowie’s life before reading this book, only his music ~ my favourite song definitely ‘Heroes’. Even if you’re a mega fan, there will definitely be something further to discover about him in this book. Alternatively, even if you despise him, his life is nevertheless undoubtedly fascinating and the teachings are extremely beneficial and rewarding.
The chapter on thoughts and how we can change our relationship with them had the most impact on me and I found the exercises very insightful, encouraging me to reflect on and analyse how I think and observe my thoughts. This is a truly phenomenal book, I really urge you to read and learn from it⚡️
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 is an incredibly original and interesting perspective on both David Bowie’s life and spiritual, philosophical, and cultural teachings within the self-help genre. Edwards explores the multiple ideas that inspired and supported Bowie throughout his life and iconic career. Each chapter delves deeper into the powerful lessons that influenced him at different points in his life and ends with a series of exercises, meditations, and techniques that readers can apply to their own lives.
A variety of powerful ideas are unearthed within this small, beautifully designed book, including:
✨Don’t take your thoughts so seriously.
✨Hold your sense of self very lightly indeed.
✨When you meet your edge don’t tighten - soften.
✨Stay open to love.
I didn’t know a lot about Bowie’s life before reading this book, only his music ~ my favourite song definitely ‘Heroes’. Even if you’re a mega fan, there will definitely be something further to discover about him in this book. Alternatively, even if you despise him, his life is nevertheless undoubtedly fascinating and the teachings are extremely beneficial and rewarding.
The chapter on thoughts and how we can change our relationship with them had the most impact on me and I found the exercises very insightful, encouraging me to reflect on and analyse how I think and observe my thoughts. This is a truly phenomenal book, I really urge you to read and learn from it⚡️
April 8, 2021
I received a physical copy for review via the publishers Allen and Unwin/Atlantic Books, so a massive thank you to them!
I was intrigued by this self-help book and it did help that I grew up in a family of David Bowie fans. Mark is a life coach and in ten chapters, he has created a separate life lesson for each one, adding his own advice and tying it also back into Bowie's beliefs as at one point, he was aiming to become a monk. I liked the exercises that the book was offering, some were mediation and others reflective and thoughtful. Personally, some of the advice was not new to me due to having read other self-help books over the last few years. It is a good read and would recommend it!
I was intrigued by this self-help book and it did help that I grew up in a family of David Bowie fans. Mark is a life coach and in ten chapters, he has created a separate life lesson for each one, adding his own advice and tying it also back into Bowie's beliefs as at one point, he was aiming to become a monk. I liked the exercises that the book was offering, some were mediation and others reflective and thoughtful. Personally, some of the advice was not new to me due to having read other self-help books over the last few years. It is a good read and would recommend it!
February 13, 2022
The Tao of Bowie- 10 Lessons from David Bowie’s Life to help you live yours. (Mark Edwards 2021)
25.We spend a lot of our time worrying about the future and thinking about the past. Psychologists call this rehearse review regret. When we look back at the past we tend to focus on the things that went wrong. And when we look into the future we tend to focus on things that might go wrong.
29. Some of us are so used to this constant internal conversation this we confuse it with real life. It isn’t real life. It is a commentary on real life. When we understand the difference between direct experience of the world and this constant chatter that distances us from life, then we can live our lives more vividly.
148. David Bowie’s Berklee Commencement Address 1999
151. Change your relationship with your thoughts.
153. DT Suzuki, like Huang Po, questions the value of thought. In his book an introduction to Zen Buddhism, for which Carl young wrote the foreword, Suzuki challenges the reader “ are you going to be eternally chained by your own laws of thought, or are you going to be perfectly free?”
154. Milarepa: when you run after your thoughts you’re like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown you run after it. Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.
155. Some people experience inner speech as a monologue. Other people experience it more as a dialogue: they ask themselves questions and then answer them.
Why are we commenting on the world to ourselves instead simply experiencing it? What is the point of telling ourselves what is happening and what we are doing when we already know because we are the ones doing it? Thought keeps us almost permanently at one remove from life.
156. Those rare and wonderful moments but we described the phrase ‘I never felt more alive’. These are the moments when our inner speech turns off, will come face to face with reality instead of living it through this layer of commentary. And yet for 99.9% off our lives we keep the commentary running, diluting our experience of being alive.
The chatter consists of commentary on what is happening around us, supplemented with a great deal of judgement on whether we like it or not. Our resting state also includes mental time travel that takes us out of the present moment, either to look back at the past or to look forward.
159. Millions of people go through life with low self-esteem and the sometimes brutal inner critic, plagued by constant self-critical thoughts that can sabotage relationships , jobs and lives . they are so used to this they consider it normal.
Knowing that our thoughts contribute so much to our suffering means we can act to reduce our suffering by simply changing our relationship with our thoughts.
160. I would argue that the three most valuable lessons in the world are these 1. you are not your thoughts 2. you are not your thoughts 3. you are not your thoughts.
161. You are the thing that notices the thoughts. You are that awareness.
165. Instead of being ruled by your thoughts, you can decide what to do with each one. You can ask: is this relevant to me? Is this true? Is this helpful? If any of your thoughts are not relevant, true and helpful you can choose to let them go.
247. Alan Watts, the author of ‘The Way of Zen’, a book Bowie read as a teenager, was a brilliant explainer of eastern philosophies. He has an elegant metaphor to explain why we should try to understand concepts like no self. Because if we don’t we will go through our lives eating the menu instead of the food. We will experience not the vivid wonderful reality of life itself, but a diluted version filtered through our conceptual thoughts. We will live in the map not in the territory.
251-2. One sentence in which Buddhists say there is no self is that there is no one in charge. There is not a single boss inside your head. We do not actively generate our thoughts, but instead most of our thoughts just happened to us. There is not one central controlling chief executive in charge of everything you do.
Let’s go back to Alan Watts - favourite author of the teenage David Bowie. There is no clearer explanation of no self than his book ‘The Book: On the taboo against knowing who you are’, in which he says that the prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination.
254. Mindfulness teacher Jack Kornfield asked a meditation master to tell him the essence of Buddhism. The master laughed and said 3 times: No self, no problem. No self, no problem. No self, no problem.
255. No self is not a doctrine. It is a strategy for living.
Buddha was not interested in the ‘serpentine dance of dragons’- whether something was true or false, right or wrong. His primary concern was ‘does it work? and ‘will it help’?
257. The attributes we are encouraged to bring to meditation include non striving or non doing. Our conventional self has very strong opinions about what it wants, and for the most part it wants something other than what it has. Our conventional self wants something to happen, wants to do something, wants to get somewhere, wants to take an item off the To Do List.
259. As thoughts arise, notice them, label them and let them go. If you start to become bored, notice this as just another thought. Label it ‘thinking that I’m bored’, and let it go.
260. At some point in meditation there may be a shift in perception. There will be breathing and meditation, there will not be somebody breathing or somebody meditating. Don’t try to make this happen - that would pretty much guarantee that it won’t. Even a brief glimpse of this other state may be enough to help you approach life differently: as a fabulous game, not as a bank to be robbed. So it may well be worth the fairly lengthy time commitment.
299. Bowie: once I had all those big dreams. I had them until I learned about simply enjoying the process of working, and the process of living.
Iman, tweet on the day before Bowie died: Sometimes you never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Youtube comment after his death: Give him back!
303. Bowie the book lover and autodidacts will have been well acquainted with Saint Jerome, the patron St of scholars, librarians, students, archivists, and encyclopaedists. He is traditionally depicted in paintings writing at his desk accompanied by a skull.
The message is simple: you’re going to die. Now, knowing this, how will you live?
322. There are certainly enough clues in the wisdom traditions to give us a pretty good idea of when we are behaving in a more enlightened way and when we are doing the opposite. We have unearthed some powerful ideas that can guide your behaviour. Among them:
don’t take your thoughts so seriously
hold your sense of self very lightly indeed
stay open to love.
Tilopa gave a very succinct teaching called the Six Words of Advice:
Let go of what has passed
Les go of what may come
Don’t think
Don’t try to figure anything out
Don’t try to make anything happen
Relax right now, and rest.
25.We spend a lot of our time worrying about the future and thinking about the past. Psychologists call this rehearse review regret. When we look back at the past we tend to focus on the things that went wrong. And when we look into the future we tend to focus on things that might go wrong.
29. Some of us are so used to this constant internal conversation this we confuse it with real life. It isn’t real life. It is a commentary on real life. When we understand the difference between direct experience of the world and this constant chatter that distances us from life, then we can live our lives more vividly.
148. David Bowie’s Berklee Commencement Address 1999
151. Change your relationship with your thoughts.
153. DT Suzuki, like Huang Po, questions the value of thought. In his book an introduction to Zen Buddhism, for which Carl young wrote the foreword, Suzuki challenges the reader “ are you going to be eternally chained by your own laws of thought, or are you going to be perfectly free?”
154. Milarepa: when you run after your thoughts you’re like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown you run after it. Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.
155. Some people experience inner speech as a monologue. Other people experience it more as a dialogue: they ask themselves questions and then answer them.
Why are we commenting on the world to ourselves instead simply experiencing it? What is the point of telling ourselves what is happening and what we are doing when we already know because we are the ones doing it? Thought keeps us almost permanently at one remove from life.
156. Those rare and wonderful moments but we described the phrase ‘I never felt more alive’. These are the moments when our inner speech turns off, will come face to face with reality instead of living it through this layer of commentary. And yet for 99.9% off our lives we keep the commentary running, diluting our experience of being alive.
The chatter consists of commentary on what is happening around us, supplemented with a great deal of judgement on whether we like it or not. Our resting state also includes mental time travel that takes us out of the present moment, either to look back at the past or to look forward.
159. Millions of people go through life with low self-esteem and the sometimes brutal inner critic, plagued by constant self-critical thoughts that can sabotage relationships , jobs and lives . they are so used to this they consider it normal.
Knowing that our thoughts contribute so much to our suffering means we can act to reduce our suffering by simply changing our relationship with our thoughts.
160. I would argue that the three most valuable lessons in the world are these 1. you are not your thoughts 2. you are not your thoughts 3. you are not your thoughts.
161. You are the thing that notices the thoughts. You are that awareness.
165. Instead of being ruled by your thoughts, you can decide what to do with each one. You can ask: is this relevant to me? Is this true? Is this helpful? If any of your thoughts are not relevant, true and helpful you can choose to let them go.
247. Alan Watts, the author of ‘The Way of Zen’, a book Bowie read as a teenager, was a brilliant explainer of eastern philosophies. He has an elegant metaphor to explain why we should try to understand concepts like no self. Because if we don’t we will go through our lives eating the menu instead of the food. We will experience not the vivid wonderful reality of life itself, but a diluted version filtered through our conceptual thoughts. We will live in the map not in the territory.
251-2. One sentence in which Buddhists say there is no self is that there is no one in charge. There is not a single boss inside your head. We do not actively generate our thoughts, but instead most of our thoughts just happened to us. There is not one central controlling chief executive in charge of everything you do.
Let’s go back to Alan Watts - favourite author of the teenage David Bowie. There is no clearer explanation of no self than his book ‘The Book: On the taboo against knowing who you are’, in which he says that the prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination.
254. Mindfulness teacher Jack Kornfield asked a meditation master to tell him the essence of Buddhism. The master laughed and said 3 times: No self, no problem. No self, no problem. No self, no problem.
255. No self is not a doctrine. It is a strategy for living.
Buddha was not interested in the ‘serpentine dance of dragons’- whether something was true or false, right or wrong. His primary concern was ‘does it work? and ‘will it help’?
257. The attributes we are encouraged to bring to meditation include non striving or non doing. Our conventional self has very strong opinions about what it wants, and for the most part it wants something other than what it has. Our conventional self wants something to happen, wants to do something, wants to get somewhere, wants to take an item off the To Do List.
259. As thoughts arise, notice them, label them and let them go. If you start to become bored, notice this as just another thought. Label it ‘thinking that I’m bored’, and let it go.
260. At some point in meditation there may be a shift in perception. There will be breathing and meditation, there will not be somebody breathing or somebody meditating. Don’t try to make this happen - that would pretty much guarantee that it won’t. Even a brief glimpse of this other state may be enough to help you approach life differently: as a fabulous game, not as a bank to be robbed. So it may well be worth the fairly lengthy time commitment.
299. Bowie: once I had all those big dreams. I had them until I learned about simply enjoying the process of working, and the process of living.
Iman, tweet on the day before Bowie died: Sometimes you never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Youtube comment after his death: Give him back!
303. Bowie the book lover and autodidacts will have been well acquainted with Saint Jerome, the patron St of scholars, librarians, students, archivists, and encyclopaedists. He is traditionally depicted in paintings writing at his desk accompanied by a skull.
The message is simple: you’re going to die. Now, knowing this, how will you live?
322. There are certainly enough clues in the wisdom traditions to give us a pretty good idea of when we are behaving in a more enlightened way and when we are doing the opposite. We have unearthed some powerful ideas that can guide your behaviour. Among them:
don’t take your thoughts so seriously
hold your sense of self very lightly indeed
stay open to love.
Tilopa gave a very succinct teaching called the Six Words of Advice:
Let go of what has passed
Les go of what may come
Don’t think
Don’t try to figure anything out
Don’t try to make anything happen
Relax right now, and rest.
February 22, 2021
The Tao Of Bowie is essentially therapy in a book. It is partly about Bowie and partly about you. It shows us how to go on a journey of self discovery using Bowie as a gateway.
Before finding fame, Bowie was about to become a monk, following the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Bowie picked a collection of ideas from the world's greatest spiritual leaders, philosophers, scientists, psychologists and artists and lived his life by them. The author uses these to compile ten powerful life lessons.
The book is split into ten chapters, each with a sub-chapter; how it fits with Bowie's life, the lesson we can learn and then 'Your Path' which basically puts us in the situation and gives us activities and exercises to do. It teaches us how to meditate and builds on this as the chapters go on.
My personal favourite is "Change your relationship with your thoughts". This is a chapter I will definitely refer back to. I love the advice to see your sadness as a sad child or friend. Don't push that feeling away. It (you) needs love and attention.
Whether you are a Bowie fan or not, this is a great self-help book.
Before finding fame, Bowie was about to become a monk, following the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Bowie picked a collection of ideas from the world's greatest spiritual leaders, philosophers, scientists, psychologists and artists and lived his life by them. The author uses these to compile ten powerful life lessons.
The book is split into ten chapters, each with a sub-chapter; how it fits with Bowie's life, the lesson we can learn and then 'Your Path' which basically puts us in the situation and gives us activities and exercises to do. It teaches us how to meditate and builds on this as the chapters go on.
My personal favourite is "Change your relationship with your thoughts". This is a chapter I will definitely refer back to. I love the advice to see your sadness as a sad child or friend. Don't push that feeling away. It (you) needs love and attention.
Whether you are a Bowie fan or not, this is a great self-help book.
October 25, 2024
bowie bits were interesting and the philosophy/psychology was well explained but this felt very self help for the businessman. more anti capitalism required
August 19, 2021
4,5/5⭐️
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En realidad
October 15, 2022
Essentially this is a very good guide to exploring different aspects of meditation. More substantial than many 'self-help' books, it combines elements of various philosophies to help you find your own path in the way David Bowie did. And, whilst Bowie is not the main focus, I also enjoyed the biographical information and hearing about his influences.
May 12, 2021
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July 20, 2021
The author uses David Bowie to introduce the reader to Buddhism and life lessons gleaned from Buddhism and meditation. You do not have to be a fan of David Bowie, or even know who he is, to enjoy this book. As a fan of Bowie, I appreciated the insights into his music that this book provides, but that is not the main point of the book.
This book is a great introduction to Buddhism and how it can be used to help you live a better life. I have studied Buddhism before and I found this book to be a great reintroduction for me of its principles. Using David Bowie as a hook was just the enticement I needed.
Bowie endured a loveless childhood and he studied Buddhism and other forms of spirituality as he planned on becoming a Buddhist monk. This did not happen, but it allows the author to use Bowie's life and music to illustrate the struggles Bowie had and how the principles of Buddhism helped guide him through troubled times and eventually find love.
I recommend this book to anyone interested in improving their life through meditation and other Buddhist principles. It teaches you how to recognize your thoughts and how to separate yourself from them through meditation.
Thank you to Edelweiss and Atlantic Books for the arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book is a great introduction to Buddhism and how it can be used to help you live a better life. I have studied Buddhism before and I found this book to be a great reintroduction for me of its principles. Using David Bowie as a hook was just the enticement I needed.
Bowie endured a loveless childhood and he studied Buddhism and other forms of spirituality as he planned on becoming a Buddhist monk. This did not happen, but it allows the author to use Bowie's life and music to illustrate the struggles Bowie had and how the principles of Buddhism helped guide him through troubled times and eventually find love.
I recommend this book to anyone interested in improving their life through meditation and other Buddhist principles. It teaches you how to recognize your thoughts and how to separate yourself from them through meditation.
Thank you to Edelweiss and Atlantic Books for the arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.
March 22, 2025
“Si nos planteamos cómo crean sus obras los escritores,
¿qué creemos que pasa? Quizá imaginemos a un poeta vagando por la naturaleza mientras conversa con unas fuerzas místicas eternas antes de ponerse a escribir. Tal vez veamos a un cantautor con la guitarra en mano, los ojos cerrados y la cara contraída en un esfuerzo por canalizar sus más inti-mos sentimientos. O puede que pensemos en algún artista torturado como Van Gogh, exorcizando sus demonios a base de pinceladas dramáticas y colores vibrantes.”
Mi mejor amiga me regaló este libro porque sabe lo mucho que me gusta la música de David Bowie. Lo comencé a leer por ahí del 2022, pero por alguna extraña razón nunca lo pude continuar. Comenzaba a leer y lo dejaba por otro libro. Más tarde, cuando finalmente pude continuarlo hasta terminarlo, me di cuenta de la razón: yo pensaba que este libro se enfocaría mucho más en la vida de David Bowie, pero no es así.
El autor, Mark Edwards, divide cada capítulo en tres partes (lo cual hace que el libro sea un poco más tedioso de leer). La primera te cuenta sobre la vida de Bowie y cómo el principio en el que se enfoca el capítulo lo ayudó en su vida. La segunda es más una investigación ligera sobre cómo el budismo practica ese principio. Finalmente, en la tercera parte, el autor nos da algunos ejercicios para poner en práctica la meditación o los principios budistas.
Es un buen libro para aprender más a fondo los ideales del budismo y cómo podemos practicarlos en nuestro día a día con ayuda de la meditación u otros ejercicios bastante útiles para encontrar la paz interior, o la iluminación, mientras aprendemos sobre la vida de David Bowie.
Después de leer este libro, continuaré aplicando algunos de los ejercicios que venían en él. También se aprende mucho más sobre la vida de Bowie y sobre las cosas e ideales que lo inspiraron a lo largo de su vida para crear algunos de sus álbumes más famosos, desde Ziggy Stardust hasta Blackstar, un álbum sobre su propia muerte.
¿qué creemos que pasa? Quizá imaginemos a un poeta vagando por la naturaleza mientras conversa con unas fuerzas místicas eternas antes de ponerse a escribir. Tal vez veamos a un cantautor con la guitarra en mano, los ojos cerrados y la cara contraída en un esfuerzo por canalizar sus más inti-mos sentimientos. O puede que pensemos en algún artista torturado como Van Gogh, exorcizando sus demonios a base de pinceladas dramáticas y colores vibrantes.”
Mi mejor amiga me regaló este libro porque sabe lo mucho que me gusta la música de David Bowie. Lo comencé a leer por ahí del 2022, pero por alguna extraña razón nunca lo pude continuar. Comenzaba a leer y lo dejaba por otro libro. Más tarde, cuando finalmente pude continuarlo hasta terminarlo, me di cuenta de la razón: yo pensaba que este libro se enfocaría mucho más en la vida de David Bowie, pero no es así.
El autor, Mark Edwards, divide cada capítulo en tres partes (lo cual hace que el libro sea un poco más tedioso de leer). La primera te cuenta sobre la vida de Bowie y cómo el principio en el que se enfoca el capítulo lo ayudó en su vida. La segunda es más una investigación ligera sobre cómo el budismo practica ese principio. Finalmente, en la tercera parte, el autor nos da algunos ejercicios para poner en práctica la meditación o los principios budistas.
Es un buen libro para aprender más a fondo los ideales del budismo y cómo podemos practicarlos en nuestro día a día con ayuda de la meditación u otros ejercicios bastante útiles para encontrar la paz interior, o la iluminación, mientras aprendemos sobre la vida de David Bowie.
Después de leer este libro, continuaré aplicando algunos de los ejercicios que venían en él. También se aprende mucho más sobre la vida de Bowie y sobre las cosas e ideales que lo inspiraron a lo largo de su vida para crear algunos de sus álbumes más famosos, desde Ziggy Stardust hasta Blackstar, un álbum sobre su propia muerte.
September 5, 2022
My sister gave me this book for Christmas last year, and it has been one of the most helpful books I've ever read. After reading through the first time, I am re-reading each chapter and working through the exercises in the book. While the facts about David Bowie are interesting, the real value in the book is the way the author shares the insights Bowie gained on his own journey and then provides concrete ways for applying it to your own journey.
December 26, 2021
I wish I was ready for this book and at 62 I doubt I will ever be.
An easy guide to Buddhism, Cant and a few other theories and no doubt trying to link it to Bowie will make many buy it.
It is not a bad book, even if you are not a Bowie fan and if you are looking for an entry point to meditation and its benefits and how to avoid pitfalls not a bad starting point.
Nice cover too x
An easy guide to Buddhism, Cant and a few other theories and no doubt trying to link it to Bowie will make many buy it.
It is not a bad book, even if you are not a Bowie fan and if you are looking for an entry point to meditation and its benefits and how to avoid pitfalls not a bad starting point.
Nice cover too x
February 3, 2021
Insightful and a little different.
Not much of Bowie, only at the beginning of each chapter but it weaves into the topics really well
Not much of Bowie, only at the beginning of each chapter but it weaves into the topics really well
March 22, 2022
Creo que los ejercicios son complicados pero la parte más teórica y de vida del artista es sublime.
March 12, 2023
This is a neat book. The author uses David Bowie's life to guide the reader through a series of meditation and thought exercises. Its a very interesting package for the subject.
July 2, 2023
It gives a fresh perspective into David Bowie life as well as giving yourself a fresh perspective
September 20, 2023
Enlightening.
June 17, 2024
A good insight into the spiritual journey of David Bowie. Love how it shows how we can all grow and understand lifes journey on a deeper level beyond self.
March 16, 2025
love bowie, don't like mark edwards?? yeah, that's pretty much it
October 17, 2022
a different take on a self help book, if it was good enough for Bowie it will do me
Bowie forever
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