The Seeker's Handbook

In 1977 Elizabeth Lesser cofounded the Omega Institute now Americas largest adult-education center focusing on wellness and spirituality. Working with many of the eminent thinkers of our times including Zen masters rabbis Christian monks psychologists scientists and an array of noted American figures--from L.A. Lakers coach Phil Jackson to author Maya Angelou--Lesser found that by combining a variety of religious psychological and healing traditions each of us has the unique ability to satisfy our spiritual hunger.In The Seekers Guid she synthesizes the lessons learned from an immersion into the worlds wisdom traditions and intertwines them with illuminating stories from her daily life. Recounting her own trials and errors and offering meditative exercises she shows the reader how to create a personal practice gauge ones progress and choose effective spiritual teachers and habits. Warm accessible and wise this book provides directions through the four landscapes of the spiritual journey:THE MIND: learning meditation to ease stress and anxietyTHE HEART: dealing with grief loss and pain; opening the heart and becoming fully aliveTHE BODY: returning the body to the spiritual fold to heal and overcome the fear of aging and deathTHE SOUL: experiencing daily life as an adventure of meaning and mystery