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Book descriptionI have rarely been so angry with a book (or its author) as I was during the reading of this book. Yet at the end, I’m not only, or still, angry but a bit more enlightened. I still feel my anger though. So I suppose I am conflicted. The book is a snippet of SГёrine Godtfredsen’s own story embedded in a mini-biography of SГёren Kierkegaard. She is a well-known figure in Denmark, although mostly from television, which I rarely watch, so I didn’t really have any preconceived notions about the book. Godtfredsen offers plenty of insight into SГёren Kierkegaard’s ideas and views. There is no doubt that she knows what she is talking about. But I also felt the book to be full of arrogant, ethnocentric comments that made me huff and puff during the reading of it and which made me wonder what her errand really was. (She is a Protestant priest, so вЂpreaching’ would be one plausible answer). The book is in Danish and probably doesn’t exist in translation, so it doesn’t make sense that I write this review in English. However, I do. I do it in defiance of what I perceive to be Godtfredsen’s smug declaration of love of the Danish language – a love that indirectly states, to me, that Danish is better than other languages when she finds herself estranged abroad because people don’t speak Danish (she was on Lanzarote, for goodness sake, not outer Mongolia). Sure, I’ve felt estranged as well when I’ve ventured into remote corners of the world, but so what? I suggest opening her mind and learning one or two other languages. She may not mean it that way of course, but coupled with her repeated insistence that to travel is to outwardly remove oneself from oneself instead of making that inward journey that Kierkegaard insists is the all important one, as long as it’s a journey toward God, I felt a distinct need to distance myself from this woman. Travelling doesn’t ensure self-development, true. You may wish to lie on a beach in the tropics for two weeks and never have an intelligent thought (and frankly, if you have a demanding job at home, this may be just what the doctor ordered. You get my blessing). But allow me to list the two most obvious arguments against hers (or Kierkegaard’s, I suppose: вЂtravelling is foolish’) to demonstrate just how obvious they are:1. Travelling doesn’t imply leaving one’s brain at home. I’ve trekked in the Himalayas, stayed at an orphanage in India (and been shown how to tie a sari – essential information!), visited a school in Sumatra, Indonesia, where the children had never seen вЂwhite’ people before, stayed up all night with jet lag in New York City and been baffled at all the lights turned on in empty offices but which ensured an perennially photo-worthy skyline, etc. etc. I cannot express with words how much I’ve learned from my travels, but they would include a deepening sense of some of the following dichotomies: humility/pride, tolerance/intolerance, exasperation/hope, incredulity/relief – but most of all: other ways of living, other people, other values, other hopes. So. To conclude: Travelling does not hinder spiritual or psychological development but can in fact promote it. Which leads me to counter-argument number 2:2. Staying at home does not ensure spiritual growth. Just because you choose to stay within your own four walls all your life does not mean that you struggle with all life’s problems and come out the other side an uplifted and spiritualized human being. It does not mean that you do a Jungian soul search, or meditate your way to enlightenment or find your deepest fears at the bottom of a well and subsequently integrate your darkest demons into your personality and become your own, true being of light. You might, but then again, you might not.My conclusion as to her travel phobia: One does not rule out the other. It is up to the individual human being. But this might be a good time to remind us of Kipling’s quote They don’t know England who only England know. The same, surely, goes for people. Do we truly know ourselves if we’ve only acted and spoken and seen ourselves in the same surroundings all our lives? Would we not be sick of ourselves if all we did was look inwardly and never see ourselves in other people’s eyes? Do we (only) develop as human beings in a national, psychological, religious vacuum?I don’t as yet know how much of this is Kierkegaard (I’m worming my way through his Either-Or, and it’s a slow process) and how much is Godtfredsen. But one of them, and I’m feeling very, very apprehensive indeed about criticizing Kierkegaard, having as yet read so little by him (plus, he lived in a completely different time, and we always have to consider the historical context;), so for all intents and purposes I’ll take the most black-and-white views as having been expressed mainly by Godtfredsen; one of them (she) confuses her own, self-proclaimed inability to enjoy travelling with her proposed вЂfact’ that travelling leads only to outward, superficial вЂjoys’. To move briefly on to the final point that riled me, I will try to translate a quote from the book into English: The perpetual journey abroad can be seen as a tragic replacement of the real journey which takes place in relation to God..Now, this may seem a fair viewpoint – viewpoint being the operative word, but she forgets one crucial thing, which surprises me although she is a priest (she’s also a Dane, and Danes are notoriously irreligious): it is a question of faith. I don’t disbelieve in God – I’m probably an agnostic if a label is needed - but the discussion (or rather preaching) here assumes that it is a scientific fact, or an inalienable truth, that: 1. our purpose in life is to move toward God – self-knowledge without God is not self-knowledge at all2. our journey towards God is hindered by external satisfaction (such as indulging in wine),3. we are deluding ourselves if we think otherwise4. it’s the Christian God we should move towardsThe main problem to me, is actually that I agree with her about much of what she criticizes about modern societies – not least Denmark. I, too, think we’ve become self-centered and superficial consumers of mass culture etc. But by preaching to me, she convinces me less than if she had soberly presented her views as views and argued for them instead of presenting them as indisputable facts which no one in their right mind, to her, can disagree with. Just because she sells me some of Kierkegaard’s ideas through a personal story that I actually liked but which deliberately shows her own flaws and failings so as to be seen as the imperfect being that I, as an even more imperfect reader, can relate to doesn’t mean that I don’t also recognize and resent her admonishing and prejudiced tone. I wish she would have convinced me to marvel at the wonder that may be God instead of force-feeding me (albeit very eloquently) her beliefs, which are, after all, beliefs. Our journeys are different in life. It seems to me a view from the Middle Ages to assume that because I do not do what she (or Kierkegaard) prescribes, I am doomed. 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