Why has a tiny old mining town straight out of
Gunsmoke or
Deadwood — Crestone, Colorado — become home to twenty-five spiritual centers representing nearly all the brand-name faiths of the world? With the keen eye of a storyteller, the insights of a scholar, and the heart of a seeker, Jeffery Paine narrates a truly unique adventure. He explores Crestone’s wintry, oxygen-thin mountain geography and introduces a cast of spiritual mavericks and unlikely visionaries. Paine finds in Crestone a remarkable dedication to coexistence. Paradoxically, the town’s amazing spiritual diversity highlights fundamental commonalities in a way that will strike and even inspire believers, agnostics, and searchers of every stripe.
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Table of Contents
PART I: TOWN
1. A Dream Awakens
2. Where the Hell Am I? A Tour
PART II: RELIGION
3. “Gimme that Ol’-Time Religion!” Or Is the New-Time Better?
4. More Religions Than One
5. Less Than One
PART III: POST-RELIGIOUS VARIETIES OF EXPERIENCE IN CRESTONE
6. An Ordinary Thursday in Crestone
7. A Spiritual Relationship to the Natural World?
8. Religion’s Finest Benefit (Minus the Religion)
9. Singing the Mind Electric
10. When There Is Here and Bitter Is Sweet
FINALE: NEAR-ENLIGHTENTMENT EXPERIENCES IN EVERYDAY LIFE
11. The Look of It, the Feel of It
12. Nine Rungs Up to the Ladder to Enlightenment
Sobre el autor
Jeffery Paine’s writing has appeared in such publications as the
New York Times, the
Washington Post, the
Los Angeles Times, the
Nation, and the
New Republic. The author of
Re-enchantment and
Father India, he lives in Washington, DC.
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