The Soul of the Story: Meetings with Remarkable People
What Happens When Your Spiritual Path Leads You Far from Home?
Many who embark on a spiritual quest discover that the people they meet along the way ultimately point them back home, into the very soul of the religious tradition they had left behind. So it was with David Zeller, whose spiritual odyssey took him across the globe, through traditions including Zen Buddhism and Hinduism, and into relationship with some of the world's most compelling spiritual teachers.
Thoughtful and endearing, provocative and witty, Zeller's delightful stories recall his meetings with the likes of Carl Jung, Shlomo Carlebach, Alan Watts, Sri Pad Baba, the "Mother" (Sri Aurobindo Ashram), Carlos Castaneda and many others, well known and unknown—and the experiences and teachings that ultimately allowed him to rediscover his own spiritual heritage.
From the stimulating days of California's Bay Area in the 1960s, to a kibbutz in Israel, to the time he spent as a sadhu in India living outdoors and bathing in rivers, these stories of Zeller’s spiritual adventures remind us all that even the most meandering path can, in the end, bring us to our true spiritual home.
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Book details
- Author
- David Zeller
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Religion › Inspirational - Topics
- spiritual journey · Jewish spirituality · Zen Buddhism · Hinduism · spiritual teachers · interfaith exploration · personal testimony · mysticism
- ISBN-13
- 9781580232722
About the author
RABBI DAVID ZELLER was the founder and director of the Network of Conscious Judaism and a teacher, counselor, singer, and author working across Jewish spirituality and transpersonal psychology. He was the author of The Soul of the Story: Meetings with Remarkable People.
Zeller served as executive director of Yakar Center for Torah and Creativity in Jerusalem and helped establish the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and Shevet: Center for Jewish Spirituality and Meditation. A student of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach for 28 years, he produced five recordings of meditative and healing music.
When not writing, Zeller led workshops worldwide in Jewish psychology, meditation, mysticism, alternative healing, and interfaith dialogue. This work in consciousness and spiritual practice formed the foundation of his writing and teaching.
Zeller was born in 1946 and died in the spring of 2007.