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