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About Sandy Krolick
Sandy Krolick graduated with a B.A. in the History of Culture from Hobart College in the Finger Lakes Region of New York, a Master's degree from the University of Chicago's Committee on General Studies in Humanities, and a Doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
After a ten-year career in academia, including appointments at the University of Virginia, the University of Denver-Daniels College of Business, and the Colorado School of Mines, he spent the next twenty years in the partnership and executive ranks of several of America's largest domestic and international firms, including Ernst & Young LLP, General Electric, and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Sandy has spent many years traveling around the world, including parts of Asia, Africa, Europe, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, and of course North America. Retiring from business at the age of fifty, he lives now in Manhattan, New York.
His published works include The Russian Soul and Collapse of the West (2020), Myth, Magic and Mystery (2020), Shambhala (Novel) (2019), VERONIKA: The Siberian's Tale (novel) (2011), Apocalypse of the Barbarians: Inquisitions on Empire (2010), The Recovery of Ecstasy: Notebooks from Siberia (2009), Recollective Resolve: A Phenomenological Understanding of Time and Myth (Mercer University Press, 1987), Ethical Decisionmaking Styles (Addison Wesley, 1986), Gandhi in the Postmodern Age: Issues in War and Peace (CSM Press, 1984). His latest work, VERONIKA, has just been translated into Russian available on Amazon.
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Frustrated and weary from their own victimization in the ‘Old World’ — and in search of a better life in the ‘New’ — boatloads of European explorers and pilgrims stole their way across the North American continent, eventually occupying every corner of this territory from sea to shining sea. But in their mad dash of territorial conquest, these predominantly ‘white’ settlers turned right around and proceeded to victimize the ‘red man’ — those indigenous i7 months ago Read more -
Blog postWhat I found most fascinating about this month’s insurrection and attempted coup at the Capitol was the cult-like instantiation, or was it a resurrection, of America’s own QAnon shaman fully outfitted and replete with horned buffalo-skinned headdress along with his tattooed midriff. The question that begs consideration here is the underlying significance of QAnon as a modern day cargo cult and, in light of this, the character and function of their would-be shaman in the events that tran7 months ago Read more
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The TRUMP strategy is really not so very hard to grasp. It does not require any special deciphering; it just demands head-on confrontation.
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Blog postNotwithstanding all the apparent benefits of globalization, and the civilization that spawned it, we have also laid the the foundation and created the conditions for the real possibility of our own demise, as one crippling, novel virus leads inexorably to the next… and so on…
Despite current circumstances, we seem to turn a blind eye to the real conditions on the ground. By this, I mean not simply the emergence of a new, and as yet not well understood, virus threatening the global pop1 year ago Read more -
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Blog postPatience, A Personal Reflection on Life and Its Impermanence
This world we’ve crafted moves very swiftly, and increases in speed with each passing year. Instant gratification is no longer a wish-fulfillment fantasy, but our constant haunting companion. Particularly in the West, in America, we are encouraged to wait for nothing. We are force-fed the belief that patience is no longer virtuous.
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Over the past number of decades, the West has been inundated by philosophical concepts pouring over us from the East. One idea we have grabbed hold of like a life-preserver is the concept of Emptiness.
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A while ago, I posted a piece on forgiveness. Today, the day of my birth sixty-five years ago, I will attempt to write something of love.
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What do we know about Russia, right now… about Russia today? I mean, given all the hype and hyperventilating among our major news organizations, pronouncements from congress and their counsels, together with the constant whining of late night TV hosts day-after-day, hour-after-hour, what are we Americans supposed to believe about the great Russian Bear? Is everything we hear just ‘fake news’ or propaganda, as Trump would have us believe? Or is there even4 years ago Read more -
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According to social anthropologists, ethnographers, and paleontologists, a key to human survival, and a primary marker of the Homo genus, is our sociability and propensity to share, whether that means sharing food, tools, or sexual favors.
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Based upon events unfolding in Russia's march towards modernization, VERONIKA plunges deep into the myth, mystery and psyche of an archaic worldview being swept away in Siberia's headlong rush to the West.
"VERONIKA is a parable for our times. Through the lens of the protagonist, it takes us on an exhilarating ride up the ladder of financial success as we willfully ignore the impacts of that success on the living planet. Then it brings us back to Earth, literally and figuratively. Along the way, the story gently reminds us what really matters: love for nature, love for our children and grandchildren, love for each other. Wow... what a ride!"
(Guy R. McPherson, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona
Author of Walking Away From Empire)
"VERONIKA, Sandy Krolick's extraordinary, literary gift to the reader." (Clu Gallagher, Author of Shattered Seeds)
“There’s a lot going on in this lean and lovingly crafted work… Krolick uses his own remarkable life story like a reagent to reveal for us the feral heart of the Siberian as his own American assumptions are subsumed in the reaction. The result is a deeply personal story of a rediscovery of ecstatic living… Krolick introduces us to a path at once profoundly kind, human, primal and accessible.” Narain Scott
Sandy Krolick's Apocalypse of the Barbarians is a collection of short chapters that explore current world events and global conditions from a unique perspective. He is an American who lives in Siberia and who has been transformed by the connection of the people to that landscape. Krolick's academic background in culture, religious studies and philosophy allows him to link current global events to a much deeper socio-cultural history. His vision pierces the tangled market of politics, language, and power, cutting through the facade to reveal another more disturbing reality.
Krolick's book is an urgent call for all of us to explore and return to a more essential way of being. It's also a siren wailing in the darkness, warning us to take responsibility for our individual and cultural lives, to see through the miasma of corporate and political control, and to act. Krolick engages the reader as a peer. He is compassionate and sensitive as he moves from the global to the personal, from the general to the individual, in search of a more connected, more humane way of being.
This book is short and you will read it quickly. Read it again, and you will discover even more its richness and complexity.
Michele Benoit