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Dr. Göte Nyman, born 1947 in Helsinki, Finland is a professor of psychology with a background in numerous fields of human sciences extending from brain and perception, vision and communication research to human technology and media. He has an extensive university management history as the Dean and Head of the Department of Psychology at University of Helsinki. His favorite society is Finnish Pattern Recognition Society (Hatutus) where he has been a member since its foundation. He continues his work on perception science and r&d and currently also works with the Peace Innovation Laboratory team at Stanford University. Göte has published about 200 scientific writings and articles and four books together with his colleagues. Outside the academia, in the real world, he has always been engaged with computers, guitar music and sports. His blog "gotepoem" is at http://gotepoem.wordpress.com/.
Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Perceptions of a Camino is an inspirational memoir written by Göte Nyman. Nyman's story revolves around his personal camino, or pilgrimage, in Fisterra. He first visited this small coastal town in Gallicia 17 years earlier, when he was on a boating trip with his wife and their friends. Three happenings called to him on that brief visit, and the final one awoke in him the desire to return to Fisterra and write. Nyman's wife, Kiisa, had decided to go on a camino after the successful resolution of his treatments for cancer, and had hoped he would go with her. His camino, however, would be spent revisiting Fisterra and finally answering those calls. He arrived as a stranger, with no knowledge of the language spoken there or arrangements for lodging, and found a spiritual home.
Göte Nyman's inspirational memoir, Perceptions of a Camino, starts with a stunning description of a voyage the author made on a converted Danish fishing trawler over stormy Atlantic waters, and I was hooked into his story from the first mention of that maritime adventure. While Nyman is a Finn, for whom English is a second language, his style is smooth, conversational and compelling. While I was reading Perceptions of a Camino, I felt as though I were listening to the author as he spoke and experiencing the time he spent in that lovely little town. There is so much that Nyman shares in this remarkable work: his love of weightlifting and martial arts, the family restaurants, finding that little house again which became the center of his camino. I finished Perceptions of a Camino having found a friend and feeling incredibly enriched by the experience. Nyman's inspirational memoir, Perceptions of a Camino, is most highly recommended.
