num_pages: 248
description: Why has a tiny old mining town straight out of Gunsmoke or Deadwood  Crestone Colorado  become home to twenty-five spiritual centers representing nearly all the brand-name faiths of the world? With the keen eye of a storyteller the insights of a scholar and the heart of a seeker Jeffery Paine narrates a truly unique adventure. He explores Crestones wintry oxygen-thin mountain geography and introduces a cast of spiritual mavericks and unlikely visionaries. Paine finds in Crestone a remarkable dedication to coexistence. Paradoxically the towns amazing spiritual diversity highlights fundamental commonalities in a way that will strike and even inspire believers agnostics and searchers of every stripe.
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title: Enlightenment Town: Finding Spiritual Awakening in a Most Improbable Place
publisher: New World Library