My Guru and His Disciple4 reviews Christopher Isherwood University of Minnesota Press, 2001 An English writer in America meets an Indian swami + Highly Recommended + Swami, How I Love Ya, How I Love Ya..... + account of a heart relationship between student and teacher             Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All12 reviews Perry Garfinkel Three Rivers Press, 2007 Good Read! + Taking The Scenic Route + A useful, sometimes humorus, overview of Buddhist practice and history with some gaps + A spiritual journey             Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith202 reviews Martha Beck Three Rivers Press, 2006 If you want to know about the mysterious Mormon church . . . + An original work from an original thinker I grew up in a town that was 98% Mormon. Being in the minority, I spent my youth being either left out because I wasn't Mormon or barraged by members of the church to become one of them. If they are anything, Mormons are as relentlessas they are exclusionary. So I thought I knew a just about ...             Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion27 reviews Sara Miles Ballantine Books, 2008 Real and powerful: A book for NOW + I loved it + Its About Community + stunningly good             The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief21 reviews Mick Brown Bloomsbury USA, 1999 Great Book about an outer/inner journey + first-rate journalism + A great read + For the armchair devotee in all of us... + A Fascinating Tour             It's Here Now (Are You?)28 reviews Bhagavan Das Broadway, 1998 Inspiring + Good at face value This is a wonderful book ... perhaps it is not a literary masterpiece ... but it describes the pitfalls and difficulty that befall most of us on the spiritual journey ... few of us are born saints or born enlightened ... those of us born in the west are (maybe?) even more predisposed culturally to ...             Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace12 reviews Nora Gallagher Knopf, 2003 A profoundly moving statement about Life and Death and Love + Learning Resurrection + Beautiful memoir that lacks focus and direction + what if it's true?             The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray8 reviews Lindsey Crittenden Harmony, 2007 Clearing a Path + Thoughtful, compassionate book for searching souls + Lindsey Crittenden Makes Me Nervous -- and That's What Makes Her Memoir So Powerful! + loss and love, grief and grace             The Buddha from Brooklyn: A Tale of Spiritual Seduction47 reviews Martha Sherrill Vintage, 2001 The Life-Story of a Predator + Emperor' New Clothes + Abusing Buddha The Life-Story of a Predator This is a beautifully written, hard-to-put-down biography of Alyce Zeoli, a woman who was once near the pinnacle of Tibetan Buddhism's hierarchy in the Western world, adored by her acolytes and students and recognized as a Tulku, an incarnate spiritual teacher, by ...             Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith80 reviews Barbara Brown Taylor HarperOne, 2007 A Precious Memoir + Helped me on my spiritual journey + To Live a Life of Love + Too abstract to be a real memoir, but thought-provoking             Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith30 reviews Nora Gallagher Vintage, 1999 faith and faithfulness + Affable Spiritual Memoir + TRUE Religion + Journey Towards Faith             Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith305 reviews Anne Lamott Anchor, 2000 Shocking but profound + pretty good book + "...I can always find my way home from here..." + Entertaining Read...             The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World87 reviews Eric Weiner Twelve, 2008 Amusing and insightful + Flawed (of necessity) but Deeply Entertaining + A Wonderous Armchair Traveler's Adventure + Great Book + Audio Interview with Eric ~ Come Listen In...             Spiritual Adventures Of A Sushi Chef2 reviews Masao Maki VIZ Media LLC, 1997 sushi chef goes New Age + Great story! I enjoyed this book very much, but like eating Sushi, in a few hours, I was hungry for more. The author gave an honest, if not simple, account of his mystical experiences in India and Peru, not to mention his endless seekings of advice from astrologers, psychics, and the like. I appreciated the ...             Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith202 reviews Martha Beck Three Rivers Press, 2006 If you want to know about the mysterious Mormon church . . . + An original work from an original thinker I grew up in a town that was 98% Mormon. Being in the minority, I spent my youth being either left out because I wasn't Mormon or barraged by members of the church to become one of them. If they are anything, Mormons are as relentlessas they are exclusionary. So I thought I knew a just about ...             My Guru and His Disciple4 reviews Christopher Isherwood University of Minnesota Press, 2001 An English writer in America meets an Indian swami + Highly Recommended + Swami, How I Love Ya, How I Love Ya..... + account of a heart relationship between student and teacher             Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith305 reviews Anne Lamott Anchor, 2000 Shocking but profound + pretty good book + "...I can always find my way home from here..." + Entertaining Read...             Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace12 reviews Nora Gallagher Knopf, 2003 A profoundly moving statement about Life and Death and Love + Learning Resurrection + Beautiful memoir that lacks focus and direction + what if it's true?             The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief21 reviews Mick Brown Bloomsbury USA, 1999 Great Book about an outer/inner journey + first-rate journalism + A great read + For the armchair devotee in all of us... + A Fascinating Tour             The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World87 reviews Eric Weiner Twelve, 2008 Amusing and insightful + Flawed (of necessity) but Deeply Entertaining + A Wonderous Armchair Traveler's Adventure + Great Book + Audio Interview with Eric ~ Come Listen In...