The Soul of the Story
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The Soul of the Story

Meetings with Remarkable People

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Soul of the Story

Meetings with Remarkable People

About this book

What Happens When Your Spiritual Path Leads You Far from Home?Many who embark on a spiritual quest discover that the people they meet along the way ultimately point them back home, into the very soul of the religious tradition they had left behind. So it was with David Zeller, whose spiritual odyssey took him across the globe, through traditions including Zen Buddhism and Hinduism, and into relationship with some of the world's most compelling spiritual teachers.Thoughtful and endearing, provocative and witty, Zeller's delightful stories recall his meetings with the likes of Carl Jung, Shlomo Carlebach, Alan Watts, Sri Pad Baba, the "Mother" (Sri Aurobindo Ashram), Carlos Castaneda and many others, well known and unknown?and the experiences and teachings that ultimately allowed him to rediscover his own spiritual heritage.From the stimulating days of California's Bay Area in the 1960s, to a kibbutz in Israel, to the time he spent as a sadhu in India living outdoors and bathing in rivers, these stories of Zeller's spiritual adventures remind us all that even the most meandering path can, in the end, bring us to our true spiritual home.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Epigraph
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. My Mother and Father: Growing Up with Dreams
  8. 2. Carl Jung: Seeing the Great Man
  9. 3. Shlomo Carlebach: Awakening My Soul
  10. 4. Shlomo: Wash Away Your Habits
  11. 5. Shlomo: The Words and the Melody
  12. 6. The Waterfall: Going with the Flow
  13. 7. Alan Watts: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
  14. 8. “The Experience of Self-Discovery”: Integrating My (Remarkable) Meetings
  15. 9. Getting High or Getting Tenure: Idea-Man or Fact-Man
  16. 10. Dr. Ho and the I Ching
  17. 11. Waking Up to Israel
  18. 12. How Saddam Hussein Made Me More Jewish
  19. 13. The Lizards: Touching the Earth
  20. 14. Thomas Banyacya: Hopi Spokesman and Interpreter
  21. 15. Harry: Running Away to Home
  22. 16. From Israel to India: Finding My Way Back Home
  23. 17. Sri Pad: Only God Brings You Here
  24. 18. Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass: Be Here Now
  25. 19. Sri Pad’s “School for Sadhus”
  26. 20. The Calcutta Rabbi
  27. 21. Swami Hariharananda: It Takes More Than a Man-tra to Become a Man
  28. 22. Sai Baba: Getting Enough to Eat
  29. 23. Sai Baba: “I’m Sorry. I Made a Mistake. Please Forgive Me.”
  30. 24. Sai Baba: Healing and Charity
  31. 25. Sai Baba: My Private Interview
  32. 26. The Mother: “Three Percent Is Better Than Everything”
  33. 27. The Mother: “Sh’ma Yisrael”
  34. 28. Cochin: “Jew Town!”
  35. 29. Farewell to Sri Pad and India
  36. 30. The Sadhu Comes Home
  37. 31. Intra-Realities: Awakening and Transition—Integrating East and West
  38. 32. The Birds: A Blessing of the Universe
  39. 33. Tony Sutich: The Hidden Founder of Transpersonal Psychology
  40. 34. Ego and Self: “I Am the Ambassador of the Self/Soul”
  41. 35. Carlos Castaneda: A Separate Reality
  42. 36. Nakasono Sensei: Meeting the Shinto Priest
  43. 37. Reb Zalman Schachter: Professor, Translator, and Explorer
  44. 38. Reb Shlomo: How Do You Teach Torah When You’re Angry with God?
  45. 39. Reb Gedaliah Kenig: Sh’ma Yisrael
  46. 40. Reb Gedaliah: The Tefillin and the Bus
  47. 41. Pascal Themanlys: Finding the Mother in Israel
  48. 42. Elana: Bringing Heaven Down to Earth
  49. 43. My Honeymoon with Reb Gedaliah
  50. 44. Reb Shlomo: Facts and Miracles
  51. 45. No Ordinary Ordination
  52. 46. Jack Shwarz: Beyond Our Physical Bodies
  53. 47. Swami Radha: Bending Over Backwards for Others
  54. 48. Kennett Roshi: Beaten to Enlightenment
  55. 49. Carl Rogers: Manipulative?
  56. 50. Ram Dass: Memorable and Memorial Meetings
  57. 51. Swami Vishnu Devananda: Unity in Diversity
  58. 52. Reb Gedaliah: The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
  59. 53. A Native American Rosh HaShanah
  60. 54. Shlomo, Zalman, and Me: Jewish and Transpersonal in India
  61. 55. Sri Pad: A Reunion
  62. 56. Reb Yisrael Odesser: The Spirit of Rebbe Nachman
  63. 57. The Amshinover Rebbe: Beyond Time
  64. 58. Elana: Coming to Israel to Stay
  65. 59. Rav Mordechai Sheinberger: A Real Kabbalist and a Real Human Being
  66. 60. Hannah-Sara: Life After Death
  67. 61. Ram Dass in Israel: The Form and the Formless
  68. 62. Tending Our Garden of Peace
  69. Notes
  70. Acknowledgments
  71. About the Author
  72. Copyright
  73. Also Available
  74. About SkyLight Paths
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