Celebrating Divine Presence: Journeys Into God

Softcover, 389 pages. Edited by Laurent Weichberger. With a Foreword by Don E. Stevens, and an Introduction by Jane Chin, Ph.D. Various Authors. In 2002 Laurent Weichberger organized an event at Northern Arizona University titled “The Eastern Heritage Symposium: Beads on One String”. Its purpose was to ask such questions as “what is a Sufi?”, “what is a Jain?” or, for example, “does a Buddhist believe in God?” What follows are essays by nine contributors at that symposium who detail their own personal journeys through various spiritual traditions— like “Beads on One String”. Thomas M. Knoles – VedantaKelly W. McCabe – HinduismLopon Tsultim Wangmo – BuddhismLaurent Weichberger – Avatar Meher BabaMary Esther Stewart – ChristianityHaring Singh Khalsa – Sikh DharmaYaakov Weintraub – JudaismKarl Moeller – SufismAmeeta Vora – Jainism