false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177414643m/701909.jpg 701909 7 Nick Brown's entertaining journey into contemporary expressions of spirituality starts with bemused reports of alleged miracles in dreary North London suburbs and the appearance of Christ in the East End. The author's respect for the intensity of belief in such stories leads him to a journey along the Indian spiritual trail, where he stays among the passionate followers of the self-proclaimed deity, Sai Babi. There is a brief trip to Tennessee to witness more alleged miraculous signs, but the tone is markedly more skeptical here. The book is at its most interesting when it provides the history of the Western "prophets" of Eastern spirituality, tracing the claims of Mr. Creme in North London in the 1990s back to the story of the founding of the Theosophical Society in the 1880s by Madame Blavatsky. This hashish-smoking, circus-performing Russian occultist was condemned as an outrageous fraud in 1884, yet Theosophy has spawned an influential set of beliefs that clearly inform current New Age thinking. Mick Brown retains a healthy skepticism about some claims, but he also professes that he has "come to believe that the world is more of spirit than of matter", and so he respects rather than vilifies those he meets. The result lies somewhere between Fortean weirdness and genuine spiritual searching. <I>--Roger Luckhurst</I> 688209 1998 The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief total:41|5:9|4:12|3:16|2:4|1:0| 41 149 59 10 701909 158234034X 9781582340340 38 9 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177414643m/701909.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/701909.The_Spiritual_Tourist_A_Personal_Odyssey_Through_the_Outer_Reaches_of_Belief 3 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jul 25 20:16:02 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 20:16:15 -0700 2009 objectively visiting churches, mosques,
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