Exploring the Economics of Post-Capitalist Spirituality – myRepublica – The New York Times Partner, …

Tourism in Nepal is not merely an economic strategy, nor is it just a line item in policy documents or a statistic in economic reports of those trained in the 20th century world. It is something far more intimate, elusive, and enduring. It pulses through the land like an ancestral rhythm. A hushed breath of ancient mountains, a shimmering whisper of sacred rivers. It resides in the slow swirl of incense smoke curling from a village shrine, in the call of the muezzin over Terai plains at dawn, in the soft hush of prayer flags flapping against a Himalayan wind. It’s in the way time stretches in the shadows of a pagoda roof, and in the way strangers become…