BOOK TALK

ArtREADS July

Book Talk: Numinosity

6PM
Thursday, July 9
Free for All

Join us for a thoughtful discussion with author Robert T. Perschel centered on Numinosity: A New England Forester's Search for the Ineffable.

ABOUT NUMINOSITY

There are moments in our lives where a door of awareness opens, if only for a brief second. These are the moments that are simply impossible to express, but moments that have captured us for all time. Join a New England forester on a fifty-year quest for something larger than all of us. Numinosity is a short book of essays, stories and poems emerging from the natural world, but always connected to a life that has had its common share of illumination and darkness, hope and despair, love and loss, resistance and acceptance.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Robert Perschel

I formed a deep connection to the natural world very early in life, beginning a journey that continues today. My experiences in nature have shaped my thinking, expanded my awareness and offered me new perspectives.

To better understand them, I studied psychology and wisdom traditions and integrated these insights into a new leadership model in forestry and large-scale land conservation.

Currently, as a speaker and author, he is dedicated to promoting a bioeconomy that emphasizes the construction of tall buildings using engineered wood. His work focuses on replacing materials with high fossil fuel content, such as plastic, steel, and concrete, with sustainably sourced and climate-resilient forest products. Bob lives in an oak forest on the north shore of the island of Martha’s Vineyard.