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    Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
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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 age, MAN SEEKS GOD presents a perspective on religion that is sure to delight, inspire, and entertain.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateDec 5, 2011
    ISBN9781611139822
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    • 4/5
      One man's search for God takes him around the world as he samples different belief systems. Sometimes humorous, but always honest, Weiner bears his soul as he searches for a resonating truth.
    • 4/5
      Mr. Weiner did not fail to disappoint in this new book. He explores a number of religions in an attempt to lift his depression. There are moments of amazing insights and clarity as well as laugh out loud comedic bits.
    • 5/5
      yes indeed,I really enjoyed this book.will go back to it again as it holds many truths and enjoyable stories l
    • 4/5
      This concept has been an idea of mine for years, but I have this in-the-way thing called a day job, and I can't abandon my religious practice to fully engage in another. I had to leave the job to someone else. Mr. Weiner took up the task, though I would have done things differently. Firstly: eight religions are too few, and the subsets are too small. Secondly: I'd spend more time investigating each, both physically and on the page. Taoism and Wicca are left practically unexplored. However, what is in the book is nonetheless entertaining, albeit mostly jocular, and not anywhere bordering on scholarly. The reading is perfectly hilarious through his aching neurosis, so what this lacks in sound and erudite investigative journalistic reporting, it makes up for with the lens of achy-breaky humor through which the tale is told. One insight towers above all for me: remove the origin story of any religion, and practice seems sane; include it, and practice seems quite the opposite.
    • 4/5
      Eric has a scary visit to the hospital and a nurse asks him "Have you found you God yet?" This sends him on a tour of religions in search of his god. Each chapter starts with a personal ad: CWM seeks forbidden deity. Looking for a crazy love. Take me for a spin, and let's see where our hearts lead. Are you my hidden treasure? This ad starts off the chapter on Sufism. Eric makes a great effort to learn as much as he can about the history of each religion reading all the books he can find on the subject. He also tries to put aside his natural skepticism to absorb as much of the experiences as he can. In a Sufi workshop he learns to whirl like a dervish, in Raelism he shaves he legs and dresses like a woman. He spends hours walking around a stupa he affectionately calls the Giant Marshmallow, he learns qi gong, he discovers his spirit animal and he practices walking meditation on the Sabbath. Eric travels all around the world and looks into eight different religions (Sufism, Buddhism, the Franciscans, Raelism, Taoism, Wicca, Shamanism, and Kabbalah). What he brings away from this journey is that instead of looking for God, "he must construct, assemble Him". I learned quite a bit about religion and this book makes me want to create my own personal ad for God.

      February 2013
    • 4/5
      I liked this book. While I can't say that I think that Eric Weiner wrote this book as a true seeker, I still thought it very interesting. He writes with an engagingly nebbish-y style, so he always comes across as approachable, and he liberally peppers his journey with humor. I thought that perhaps some of the religions he picked to explore were so far out there (Raelians? really?) that he didn't really expect to find his spiritual fit there (which is why I don't think he was genuinely seeking, see comment above), but I learned something nevertheless.
    • 5/5
      Wonderfully informative and personal. I gave it to two other people before I'd finished listened to the CDs and they both loved it, too.
    • 5/5
      Once again, NPR journalist Eric Weiner, flits around the globe attempting to find the answer to an unanswerable question. In his previous bestseller book The Geography of Bliss, Eric traveled the globe to find where in the world people were the happiest. Here, In Man Seeks God, Eric put himself up against the big one, Religion.While laying in a hospital bed from a minor malady, Eric was approached by a mysterious nurse who whispered in his ear, "Have you found your God yet"? Immediately alarmed, he thought he must be dying in order for her to say such a thing to him. As he lay there, he realized that although raised in the Jewish faith, he basically followed no religion and had no image of God in his life what so ever, and maybe if he was terminally ill, then perhaps it was high-time he did. Thankfully his hospital stay was a short one, and his ailment was not of any serious nature. But he exits the hospital anxious to throw all cares to the wind and adventure out once again on a new quest. To find a religion he can take home and sit comfortably with.Told with his usual style of bizarre wit and sarcasm, Eric divides the book into 8 chapters that have him choosing destinations around the world to investigate, and participate in an assortment of religions.On these adventurous journeys to Nepal, China, Mendocino, California, The Bronx, Seattle, Washington D.C, and Israel, Eric explores Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism, Kabbalism, Wicca, and Shamanism. Sometimes optimistically, often pessimistically, he searches and experiments, fully participating in the depth of each religion and slowly discovers the pros and cons of each faith.As our intrepid journalist journeys from place to place trying to cage a religion he can take home in his suitcase, he explores the minds and lifestyles of many woman and men, who have found their God in one format or another. He learns, he gathers, he envelopes each faith bravely with the inquisitiveness of a child. Of course he stumbles and falls now and again, but only to cautiously stand back up steadfast following the path of his mission. I found this book to be many things; interesting, thought-provoking, challenging, adventurous and ....laugh-out-loud hilarious! Eric's sense of humor will have any reader chuckling every step of the way as Eric inherits the winds of many religions trying to choose one he can be swept away by.Eric opens the Bible, talks about Jesus. He discusses the Torah, discovers his totem animal, gets naked, prays, chants, dances, meditates, and yes, even spins and twirls with the Sufi Whirling Dervishes!! Anyone interesting in learning of the worlds many cultures and beliefs will find Man Seeks God a truly delightful reading encounter.