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My Flirtations with the Divine
Twelve
December 2011
On Sale: December 5, 2011
368 pages
ISBN: 0446539473
EAN: 9780446539470
Kindle: B004QZ9P4C
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Non-Fiction Religion
When a health scare puts him in the hospital, Eric Weiner-an
agnostic by default-finds himself tangling with an
unexpected question, posed to him by a well-meaning nurse.
"Have you found your God yet?" The thought of it nags him,
and prods him-and ultimately launches him on a far-flung
journey to do just that. Weiner, a longtime "spiritual voyeur" and inveterate
traveler, realizes that while he has been privy to a wide
range of religious practices, he's never seriously
considered these concepts in his own life. Face to face with
his own mortality, and spurred on by the question of what
spiritual principles to impart to his young daughter, he
decides to correct this omission, undertaking a worldwide
exploration of religions and hoping to come, if he can, to a
personal understanding of the divine. The journey that results is rich in insight, humor, and
heart. Willing to do anything to better understand faith,
and to find the god or gods that speak to him, he travels to
Nepal, where he meditates with Tibetan lamas and a guy named
Wayne. He sojourns to Turkey, where he whirls (not so well,
as it turns out) with Sufi dervishes. He heads to China,
where he attempts to unblock his chi; to Israel, where he
studies Kabbalah, sans Madonna; and to Las Vegas, where he
has a close encounter with Raelians (followers of the
world's largest UFO-based religion). At each stop along the way, Weiner tackles our most pressing
spiritual questions: Where do we come from? What happens
when we die? How should we live our lives? Where do all the
missing socks go? With his trademark wit and warmth, he
leaves no stone unturned. At a time when more Americans than
ever are choosing a new faith, and when spiritual questions
loom large in the modern age, MAN SEEKS GOD presents a
perspective on religion that is sure to delight, inspire,
and entertain.
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