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Man Seeks God My Flirtations with the Divine

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font face font family Times font face font family Geneva p MsoNormal li MsoNormal div MsoNormal margin 0in 0in 0 0001pt line height 150 font size 12pt font family Times New Roman div Section1 page Section1 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 a