Posted by Noa on January 5, 2003, at 10:20:53
In reply to Re: Trying to understand faith and depression » Dinah, posted by jeanmari1 on January 5, 2003, at 3:35:28
I was recently in the bookstore and Christopher Reeve's new book ("Nothing is impossible : reflections on a new life")caught my eye. I leafed through it and actually got to read a few chapters (it is a small book and short chapters). He talks about his own quest--he went through several paths--started out in Jesuit high school, tried Buddhism, flirted with scientology as a struggling young actor, etc. etc. for him, what he ended up feeling comfortable with is unitarian universal church, and he goes into how he likes that it is not doctrinaire, but that you have to be able to accept a certain amount of not knowing the answers.
I also read part of an interesting book that you might find interesting: "The beaten path : field notes on getting wise in a wisdom-crazy world" by Ptolemy Tompkins. I need to go back and read the rest. He is the son of a kind of "guru" of new age spiritual movements, and he describes his own quest, but also explains a lot about the various approaches. The premise of the book is that there are limitless books on the "answer" and it can be confusing--afterall, they each claim to be "THE path".
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