Not many people have one near-death experience--let alone four or five; and that fact alone makes Richard St George, Director of the Schumacher Society, quite remarkable. During his student days in Northern Ireland, glandular fever left him in a coma. His flatmates had gone home for the summer, and he lay helpless on the floor for three days.
`I remember being stuck to the ceiling and looking down at my body,' he says. `I felt no emotional attachment to my human form, which just ...