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Overview

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 him, 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 what 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 (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.

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Publishers Weekly
Former NPR reporter Weiner (The Geography of Bliss) turns his journalistic and travel-writing skills to the terrain of the inner life in this ironic, informative, if somewhat flat, spirituality memoir. A more-or-less agnostic cultural Jew, Weiner decides in midlife to get serious about investigating God—is there a God, and if so what is God like? To answer these questions, the author travels around the world, apprenticing himself (briefly) to teachers and practitioners of eight different religious traditions, from Sufism to shamanism. He reads Rumi in Istanbul and takes a mikvah dip in Tzfat, Israel. Franciscans bring him along to an antiabortion protest, and Jamie, a witch in the Pacific northwest, helps him crash a coven and sends him stern e-mail telling him to address his chronic depression. Winsome, self-deprecating humor marks every page. But the spiritual takeaways Weiner offers feel a bit thin—as when, at the end of his time in Nepal, he concludes that the fleetingness of an experience (be that experience life or breakfast) makes the moment not “less sweet,” but “more. Definitely more.” (Dec. 5)
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Weiner (former correspondent, NPR; The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World) is noted for his self-confessed status as a grump as well as his understated but consistent humor and wit. These qualities do not fail him in this memoir of his personal quest for a faith that will give meaning to his life and answer some of his questions, a journey that includes Tibetan Buddhists, the dervishes of Konya, Kabbalah, and a visit with the Raelians. Weiner ends almost where he began, with a God reminiscent mostly of the Judaism to which Weiner was born along with bits of the traditions he has since studied. VERDICT Weiner's memoir is one of the best and most readable spiritual autobiographies of the last few years, worthwhile for a broad ranger of readers and spiritual seekers. [See Prepub Alert, 6/13/11.]
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A peripatetic journalist and the author of The Geography of Bliss (2008) jets around the globe trying to find a religion that makes sense for him. Born a Jew (but no longer observing), Weiner received a recent medical scare and was startled by a nurse's question: "Have you found your God yet?" That question propelled the author in his search through a tiny fraction of the world's religions. Some of the groups he chose--Wiccans and Raelians, for example, the latter a UFO-based religion whose Las Vegas convention Weiner attended--seem choices based more on whimsy and sensationalism than a sincere response to the nurse's question. Still, Weiner is often an appealing tour guide, complaining throughout about the quality of the coffee, making fun of his efforts to whirl like a dervish, chiding himself for his inability to meditate, recording his fears when he walked down a city street or met a Wiccan named Black Cat and telling how he sneaked out of sessions for a drink. Weiner also samples some more conventional religions, like Buddhism and Taoism, and he lived with some Franciscans at a shelter in the South Bronx. The author even explores shamanism at a remote Maryland location, though he confesses a discomfort with polytheism. Weiner ends his quest in Israel, where he studied Kabbalah with a variety of teachers. The author's conclusion--find what works for you--is hardly novel, and the tone and diction are informal and self-deprecating but sometimes clichéd. A mixture of sincerity, sensationalism and irony that alternately delights, informs and annoys.
Joshua Hammer
Books about God tend to fall into two categories: objective inquiries into the nature of belief and personal tales of spiritual awakening…Eric Weiner's Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine nimbly and often hilariously straddles the fence between the two genres…He's Woody Allen channeling Karen Armstrong.
—The New York Times Book Review

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446539470
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 12/5/2011
  • Pages: 349
  • Sales rank: 33,599
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Eric Weiner is author of the New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss, which has been translated into eighteen languages. A former correspondent for NPR and the New York Times, Weiner has reported from more than three dozen countries. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Magazine, and the anthology, Best American Travel Writing. He divides his time between Starbucks and Caribou.

Read more about Eric Weiner at www.ericweinerbooks.com

Table of Contents

Introduction: An Uncomfortable Question 1

Chapter 1 God Is Love: Sufism 17

Chapter 2 Cod Is a State of Mind: Buddhism 58

Chapter 3 Cod Is Personal: Franciscans 12 3

Chapter 4 Cod Is Far Out: Raëlism 165

Chapter 5 God Is Nothing: Taoism 198

Chapter 6 God Is Magical: Wicca 238

Chapter 7 God Is an Animal: Shamanism 265

Chapter 8 God Is Complicated: Kabbalah 282

Epilogue: God: Some Assembly Required 336

Acknowledgments 341

Select Bibliography 345

About the Author 351

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    Eric Weiner Rocks!

    I fell in love with Eric's writing in his first book, Geography of Bliss. His second book is even better, with his trademark wit coupled with a true seeker's attitude ... he tackles the quest to find his God.

    The journey is definitely worth taking, as he evaluates and experiences various religions. Even if you've already found your God, reading Man Seeks God will inspire you with its story, and delight you with its marvelous prose.

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