'Nostalgia of the Self' by Serge Grahovac

Today the first book of my brother Serge Grahovac - ‘La Nostalgie de Soi’ or ‘Nostalgia of the Self’ - is officially released in all French speaking countries since it is written in French. That means it is now available in all known bookstores and platforms.

I did my best hereafter to translate in English the original French back cover (image below) so that I can share its purpose with a majority.

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Why "nostalgia of the Self"? The term refers to that which every human being feels from his birth and in the vast majority of cases, till his death. This feeling is often identified as a boredom that may disappear but briefly or a deep and unexplained loneliness that we are unable to fill.

Even if we do not realize it the purpose of all actions we perform in our lives is truly to relieve this original nostalgia.

Every human being desires to be happy, not suffer and lives his life accordingly. However, not a single of our actions seems to appease this persistent pain.

This book intends to understand the real causes of this pain, of this longing that we fail to defeat in order to be able to respond to as effectively as possible.

Pain is always a signal that something is ‘wrong’ for us. We ‘simply’ need to put it ‘right back into place’: hence the need to know what goes wrong, how and why.

Based on the personal experience of the author, on contemporary scientific research whose findings challenge the way we perceive our reality, and words of sages who cured themselves of this nostalgia, these texts are designed to challenge our usual perception of the world, and thereby to free ourselves from our beliefs in order to be open to a more comprehensive understanding.

The author believes that a book can change the lives of his readers by disrupting their perceptions and by offering practices, non-practices to keep on the grip of their own healing.

Serge Grahovac remembers to always have felt ‘nostalgia of the Self’. He believed in the way society proposes to respond to until his 19 years and an incident in which he thought to live his last moments. The fears awoken by this event led him to recognize this void, this nostalgia.