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In this second book in the series of Memoirs of a Thoughtful Traveler the reader is asked to consider these questions: What does it mean tobring progress--schools, electricity, roads,running water--to paradise?Will introducing the benefits of modern progressive cultures reallyimprove life within a community that has survived contentedly forcenturies? Does it matter whether the desire to "do good" is amotivation of the ones helping to bring progress?
In October2008, climbing expedition leader and attorney, Jeff Rasley, led a trekto a village named Basa on a Himalayan mountainside in the remote Soluregion of Nepal. His group of three adventurers was only the third group of "white people" ever seen in this village of subsistence farmers.What they found was a people thoroughly unaffected by Westernconsumer-culture values. They had no running water, electricity, oranything that moves on wheels. Each family lived in abeautiful,hand-chiseled stone house with a flower garden. Beyond whatthey already had, it seemed all the villagers wanted was education forthe children. Rasley and his friends helped finish a school buildingalready in progress. But then, the villagers asked for help to bringelectricity to Basa.
Bringing Progress to Paradise describes Rasley's transformation from adventurer to committed philanthropist."We are attracted to the simpler way of life in these communities, and weare changed by our experience of it. They are attracted to us,because we bring material benefits." Bringing Progress to Paradise offersRasley's critical reflection on the tangled relationships amongtourists, "do-gooder" missionaries, and native people in "exotic"locales. He provides a surprising analysis of the effect of Westernvalues on some of the most remote locations on earth.
Other books by Jeff Rasley -
If you are interested in learning the rest of the story of Basa Village, read Light in the Mountains - Namaste, Rakshi, and Electricity in a Himalayan Village and its prequel India - Nepal Himalayas In the Moment (an honest Three Cups of Tea).
Want to get out of the snow and mountains and onto sandy beaches and swaying palms, check out the lyrical Islands in my Dreams
For a change of pace curl up with False Prophet. It's a romantic mystery and inspirational tale based on a legal case Rasley handled in his 30-year Indianapolis law practice.
If you enjoy sports action, history, humor, romance, or thesex/drugs/rock 'n roll cultural revolution of the 60s, check out MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY: Love and Redemption in College Football.
Pilgrimage: Sturgis to Wounded Knee and Back Home, a Memoir - It begins with a motorcycle road trip to the Bacchanalia of Sturgis Bike Week, then takes a detour to the massacre at Wounded Knee, and crosses the ocean to a remote village in the Himalayas. But, reconciliation is found back home in Indiana.
GODLESS - Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs makes the case that beliefs divide us, but values unite us. So weshould fight religious and political violence with positive values.
Hero's Journey - John Ritter, the Chip Hilton of Goshen, Indiana; a Memoir is a meditation on what makes a real hero and a nostalgic reminiscence about childhood heroes.
- Sales Rank: #1515388 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-09-15
- Released on: 2010-09-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Quite an amazing book - really a must read for conscientious travelers not only to Asia but other parts of the world that have been in any way isolated from Western influence." -American Buddhist Perspective
"Our Nepal experiences have been through a locally-owned company in Kathmandu staffed by people from Basa, near Everest. Jeff has spent time in Basa and taken on this village as his personal project. A school and electricity generation were the first two projects Jeff undertook and this is about his personal growth experience." Maximum Adventure maximumadventure.net/?s=books
From the Author
Bringing Progress to Paradise is more than a travel memoir. It is a how-to and a how-not-to manual for Himalayan trekking. More significantly to me, it introduces readers to the strongest and kindest people I know. God willing, it will inspire others to action, to live adventurously, but not just for self, but to transmit love and compassion across mountains, oceans, and cultures.
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About the Author
Jeff Rasley is a writing coach, Himalayan trek organizer and president of the Basa Village Foundation USA Inc. He lives in Indiana, where he practiced law for 30 years. His avocation has been adventure travel since leaving school at 18 to hitch hike across the country. He has solo sea-kayaked around the islands of Palau three times and participated in kayaking expeditions in Tonga, the Greek Isles, French Polynesia and various Caribbean islands. Rasley has participated in, and led, mountaineering expeditions in Nepal and the Himalayas since 1995. He has been working with the Rai people of Basa, Nepal, to bring "progress" to their village in the most culturally respectful way possible. Author website: jeffreyrasley.com
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A 360 Degree View of the Highs and Lows of Progress
By Erika Borsos
This book is a thrilling arm chair adventure that is partly memoir, partly travelogue, partly a review of modern history in Nepal, and partly an expedition which served as a fund-raiser to build an addition on to a grammar school in a remote Rai mountain village in Nepal. The author lives in the prairie state of Indiana and described how he felt a kind of malaise when he was aged 43 that he labeled 'a midlife crisis. His wife dropped a brochure in front of him about a Himalayan mountain trekking expedition and essentially told him, "go climb a mountain." And as they say, "the rest is history" because the author turned this new adventure into a love affair with trekking, mountain climbing and the people of Nepal. He spent over 10 years visiting the Himalaya mountains and building up his stamina and physical abilities to climb mountains at the height of 20,000+ feet to experience the highs and lows associated with this kind of life experience, essentially he was hooked! The Himalaya mountains put a magical spell on the author, which most visitors who enter this part of the world seem to experience and describe as life-altering.
The author begins his book with an unexpected tragic event that he witnessed in 1999 when he was attempting to climb the Mera Peak a 21,224 feet high mountain. It took eleven days to reach the Mera base camp from where the group had views of surrealsitic mountain passes and glistening glaciers. A low distant roar was heard as an avalanche struck and buried three Nepalese porters. This event caused the author to wait four more years before he ventured into this alluring and challenging environment again. Besides his personal experience, Nepal was undergoing political changes with Maoist gangs inciting revolution and the health threat of SARS was spreading in Asia so it was not safe to visit Nepal. Jeff Rasley weaves the modern history of Nepal into his book and debates the effects of the virus of modern consumerism on the Nepalese people. He writes interesting facts about the current political climate and includes fascinating details about Sir Edmund Hillary's first recorded successful climb to the top of the highest mountain in the world Mount Everest in 1953 Another well written chapter covers the Golden Jubilee celebration of that historic event, fifty years later when the author again visited Nepal, this time he trekked through Sagarmatha National Park in the Khumba region, near Mount Everest. He met Sir Emund's older sister June and her daughter Hillary Carlyle. After becoming world famous and wealthy, Sir Edmund spent most of his life in philanthropic activities, such as school building, providing electricity and running water, and health clinics to the Sherpa people.
After spending over ten years trekking and mountain climbing in Nepal, the author felt compelled to 'give something back' to the people of Nepal. He chose to organize expeditions and make arrangements directly with Nepalese trekking and mountain climbing companies. Additionally, he organized fundraisers to provide direct help to remote Himalayan mountain villages, which included a village water project, sixty five pounds of school supplies, and providing funds to help build an addition onto a village school in the Rai village called Basa. This last project provided the most interesting reading in this book. The author describes the highs and lows of arranging a trekking experience with a group of five, some of whom were prepared for the challenges associated with the journey, some of whom were not. The reader is given a 360 degree perspective of breath-taking mountain vistas along with experiencing altitude sickeness and hypothermia. The joyous reception which awaited the group who succeeded in reaching the village of Basa is an unforgetable chapter. Overall, the author provides a realistic description of what it means to experience a culture vastly different from our own. Since the 21st century has arrived to the country of Nepal, life in the cities and villages is changing. The reader is taken on a fascinting journey to explore, compare and contrast, as well as debate how the meeting of the East and West has altered the landscape and lives of people in this remote part of the globe. Erika Borsos [pepper flower]
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Bringing Progress to Paradise
By Cherri Megasko
Bringing Progress to Paradise is a solicitous combination of high adventure and soulful enlightenment. Rasley's internal struggles about helping the people of the isolated mountain village of Basa, Nepal, become your own as you share his experiences and contemplate his interactions. The warmth, love and trust bestowed upon him by these remarkable people has sparked in him a transformation that will likely influence every aspect of his life.
Part memoir, part travelogue, part documentary, this true adventure captures your interest in the opening pages and leaves you yearning for your own personal pilgrimage through the remote villages of Nepal.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully Written
By Bonnie Neely
Bringing Progress To Paradise by Jeff Rasley This book reminds me of Three Cups of Tea in that Rasley went to Nepal, saw the needs of the tiny village in the Himalayas, which had no running water and no electricity and badly needed teachers and a school, returned home and made it happen. Jeff is a lawyer and an action adventurer and the climb of Mt. Everest was a life-changing event for him. In wanting to help the people he found so wonderful, he was very cautious that the "help" might also bring with it the problems of Western civilization:greed, and trash, and waste, fighting, materialism, and the destruction of families working to help each other, which has always been the way of life and survival in the "top of the world" villages for centuries. Jeff, in beautiful writing style, shows the reader the place, the people, his experiences, and his yearning to help in a truly careful and best way. He returned in 2009 to supply these people with many of their needs and requests through funds he raised for several years. The book details beautifully "Waht I Got from Going to a Mountain Village in Nepal.
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