Eliezer Sobel
author profile
born
August 05, 1952
place of birth
Paterson, NJ, United States
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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
influences
Stanley Elkin, Colin Wilson, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,Tom Robbins, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Ram Dass
about this author
Eliezer Sobel was the Editor-in-Chief of The New Sun Magazine in the '70s, and the Wild Heart Journal more recently. He is the author of a memoir, The 99th Monkey, a novel, Minyan, (winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel), Wild Heart Dancing and the Manual of Good Luck. HIs short story, Mordecai's Book, won the New Millennium Prize for Fiction, and his short stories and articles have appeared in TIKKUN Magazine, Yoga Journal, The New Age Journal, Quest Magazine, and numerous others. For many years Sobel led intensive creativity workshops and retreats at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and similar venues in the US. He lives in Richmond, Va. with his wife, Shari Cordon, and three cats. See also http://www.the99thmonkey.com and
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The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments (Paperback) by Eliezer Sobel (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.17 — 5 ratings — published 2008 |
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Minyan: Ten Jewish Men In A World That Is Heartbroken (Hardcover) by Eliezer Sobel (Goodreads author!) avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2004 3 editions |
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Wild Heart Dancing: A Personal One-Day Quest to Liberate the Artist and Lover Within (Paperback) by Eliezer Sobel (Goodreads author!) avg rating 5.00 — 1 ratings — published 1994 |
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Prologue to The 99th Monkey (Biographies & Memoirs)
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How one man's resistance is holding back the Great Paradigm Shift of the ages!
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback) by Elizabeth Gilbert bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Visions of Cody (Modern Classic) by Jack Kerouac |
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Desolation Angels (Paperback) by Jack Kerouac |
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Moon Palace (Paperback) by Paul Auster |
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The Book of Illusions: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback) by Paul Auster |
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The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel (Paperback) by Paul Auster |
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The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel (Paperback) by Alain de Botton (Goodreads author!) |
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The Consolations of Philosophy (Paperback) by Alain de Botton (Goodreads author!) |
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On Love: A Novel (Paperback) by Alain de Botton (Goodreads author!) |
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How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (Paperback) by Alain de Botton (Goodreads author!) |
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The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's MIsadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Adventures
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Dialogue with author Eliezer Sobel about the extremes he went to as a spiritual seeker.
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