Comments on: Book Recommendations for Emily Huie’s Vacation http://voreblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/book-recommendations-for-emily-huies-vacation/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Eliezer Sobel http://voreblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/book-recommendations-for-emily-huies-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Eliezer Sobel Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:20:31 +0000 http://voreblog.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-102 re: Spiritual Memoirs I had the good fortune of meeting Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God, when she was only 14 or so, at a gathering of "Jewish Renewal" folks-- at that time she was a bright-eyed young woman just beginning to get excited about Judaism, as was I. Then I found her book many years later and learned the rest of her unusual story! In the meantime, I travelled quite a different direction, more the spiritual dilettante, I'm afraid, compared to the intensity of Lauren's convictions and commitments to her various paths over the years. But at least my story is funny! If there's such a thing as "spiritual memoir/beach reading" this would be it: The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Adventures. You can read the Prologue here, to see if it grabs you: http://www.the99thmonkey.com Best, Eliezer Sobel re: Spiritual Memoirs

I had the good fortune of meeting Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God, when she was only 14 or so, at a gathering of “Jewish Renewal” folks– at that time she was a bright-eyed young woman just beginning to get excited about Judaism, as was I. Then I found her book many years later and learned the rest of her unusual story!
In the meantime, I travelled quite a different direction, more the spiritual dilettante, I’m afraid, compared to the intensity of Lauren’s convictions and commitments to her various paths over the years.
But at least my story is funny! If there’s such a thing as “spiritual memoir/beach reading” this would be it:

The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist’s Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Adventures.

You can read the Prologue here, to see if it grabs you:

http://www.the99thmonkey.com

Best,
Eliezer Sobel

]]> By: Embo http://voreblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/book-recommendations-for-emily-huies-vacation/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Embo Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:46:34 +0000 http://voreblog.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-95 I really said "in the pipeline"?? ugh- work lingo creeping into normal life... thanks for the list I can't wait to get started!!! I really said “in the pipeline”?? ugh- work lingo creeping into normal life… thanks for the list I can’t wait to get started!!!

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