Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

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In Soul Boom,RainnWilson explores the landscape of the world’s faiths, and suggests a new and thoughtful spiritual path for seekers. This renewed belief in a higher mysticism is informed by his own faith and close reading of many of the world’s holiest texts, including the Qur’an (Islam), the Bhagavad Gita (Hinduism), the Torah (Judaism), and Holy Bible (Christianity). Wilson grew up in the Baha’i faith, which he continues to practice as an adult, but the twists and turns of addiction and depression prompted him to seek out answers from other great spiritual traditions.

It also requires a longtail view of the eternal — knowing that we’re in this whole game of life for a very, very, very long haul. H. unit instead of eating awkward, loveless meatloaf with the Wilson family of Lake Forest Park, Washington. Well, the Beatles met with the Maharishi, Cat Stevens became a Muslim, Shirley MacLaine communed with ancient aliens, a young Steve Jobs studied Buddhism in India, everybody was “kung fu fighting,” and countless young people sought answers along nontraditional spiritual paths. I would highly recommend this to anyone who’s interested in religion, theology, spirituality, but are afraid to step into that world. Entertainment • book review Rainn Wilson’s New Book ‘Soul Boom’ Takes Him From Dwight Schrute to Guru In a spiritual guidebook by turns funny, clumsy and inspirational, the actor traces the commonalities of the world’s major religions, tapping the general teachings of inspirational scriptures as a way to a better life.For Wilson, this is a serious and essential pursuit, but he brings great humour and his own unique perspective to the conversation. The subtitle of the book is Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, and this is what I don't feel is being addressed out there, that there are spiritual tools that are practical and profound that can transform our lives personally, but can also transform our society. Some people think of spirituality as something very new age, and some people think of spirituality as only having to do with their particular church or their synagogue or their shrine. So I got on the old Google and I looked and sure enough, the Women's Health June, 2020 cover story was on Julianne Hough, recently named co-host of Dancing with the Stars, talking about how she had went to Switzerland and had some demons exercised from her and had had this spiritual transformation.

And finally, at the very end, a note floats down on the breeze and lands on top of all the supplies. My dad, a wise spiritual teacher and public speaker, responded, “Well, in a lot of ways, it’s very similar. He then – in a move I totally didn’t expect – outlines a theory of comparative religions, including ten common values of major religions! It is a topic that everyone will deal with it, and now that I'm in my mid-fifties, as I know people that are passing away, I lost my father a couple years back.Along the way, Wilson covers numerous heady concepts, including the purpose of life (soul growth), life after death, and God….

We are first offered his earnest awakening story, one that begins for Wilson in his 20s against eroding mental health and gnawing addiction problems, and ends when spirituality (and some therapy) saves him. Reading SoulBoom is like an earnest midnight conversation in your college dorm with your genius religious studies friend.The other part of these 10 points is that many of these religious people disagree on these issues, and we need to see why we disagree on these points and why we cannot be following the same God. Almost to a person, my artist friends would say, "Well, I certainly don't believe in an old man on a cloud, you know, with an agenda scowling down at us. But how can we nurture the sacred as a condition in our hearts that we can carry with us so that a conversation like we're having can be sacred? Some really light material: pandemics, death, God, religion, holiness, consciousness, suffering, social transformation, and the meaning of life. Wilson uses “Star Trek” and “Kung Fu” to elucidate the twofold path of any spiritual journey; “Star Trek” representing collective spiritual aspirations (world peace, embracing diversity, etc.