num_pages: 353
description: 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 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 which 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 the 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.
language: English
title: Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
publisher: Twelve