About the Book

In his most intimate and revealing work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today's clamorous debates over the existence of God, bringing an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.
In this new book, Jacob Needleman-whose voice and ideas have done so much to open the West to esoteric and Eastern religious ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-intimately considers humanity's most vital question: "What is God?"
With rich, vivid examples from his experiences in the classroom and other walks of life, Needleman draws us closer to the meaning andnature of this question-and shows how our present confusion about the purpose of religion and the concept of God reflects a widespread psychological starvation for a specific quality of thought and experience. In varied detail, the book describes this inner experience, and how almost all of us-atheists and believers alike-actually have been visited by it, but without understanding what it means and why its intentional cultivation is necessary for the fullness of our existence.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 305 pages

Series: Not Applicable

Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1585428477

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-13: 9781585428472

Publication Date: Dec. 30th, 2010

Dimensions: 12.78 x 18.03 x 2.29 cm

Shipping Weight: 0.25 kg

• Categories: General Body, Mind & Spirit Religious Philosophy General Religion