Book Note: Original Faith Available . . .
Original Faith: Finding the Interfaith Soul of Progressive Religion and Spirituality has just become available on Amazon and Target. (For libraries, it’s also in the WorldCat catalog.)
The number of inquiries about the book has gone up lately, so although the press release hasn’t gone out yet and parts of the information on the book’s Amazon page are still being developed, I wanted to let you know.
We’re hoping to get an international sales channel that would allow people outside the US to order online without having to pay so much postage, but not sure yet if that can happen.
I truly appreciate your readership here – the level of thoughtfulness that people have brought to these threads has been wonderful.
The book covers the whole range of spiritual life and growth as broadly and deeply as I’ve been able to experience and understand it. It was written over a period of twenty-five years, starting from when I was leading a full life, through years of disease progression, and into severe disability – “in sickness and in heath,” as they say. (I guess I was sort of married to it…)
Here are the contents. I believe that the book is likely to have something to offer you wherever you happen to be in your own experience and understanding of what our being here is all about:
Contents
Chapter 1: What Love Is
Chapter 2: Despair Under Heaven
Chapter 3: The Fact of Faith
Chapter 4: Stumbling Block: Ego
Chapter 5: Willingness and Practice
Chapter 6: The Nature of Work
Chapter 7: Nature’s Work of Transformation
Chapter 8: Working from World-Center
Chapter 9: Owning the Greater Claim
Afterword: Owning the Darkness
Love –
Paul
The number of inquiries about the book has gone up lately, so although the press release hasn’t gone out yet and parts of the information on the book’s Amazon page are still being developed, I wanted to let you know.
We’re hoping to get an international sales channel that would allow people outside the US to order online without having to pay so much postage, but not sure yet if that can happen.
I truly appreciate your readership here – the level of thoughtfulness that people have brought to these threads has been wonderful.
The book covers the whole range of spiritual life and growth as broadly and deeply as I’ve been able to experience and understand it. It was written over a period of twenty-five years, starting from when I was leading a full life, through years of disease progression, and into severe disability – “in sickness and in heath,” as they say. (I guess I was sort of married to it…)
Here are the contents. I believe that the book is likely to have something to offer you wherever you happen to be in your own experience and understanding of what our being here is all about:
Contents
Chapter 1: What Love Is
Chapter 2: Despair Under Heaven
Chapter 3: The Fact of Faith
Chapter 4: Stumbling Block: Ego
Chapter 5: Willingness and Practice
Chapter 6: The Nature of Work
Chapter 7: Nature’s Work of Transformation
Chapter 8: Working from World-Center
Chapter 9: Owning the Greater Claim
Afterword: Owning the Darkness
Love –
Paul
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29 Comments:
I wonder if Amazon will do anything about that in the coming years. It's not exactly like you're a tiny country with few speakers of English...
If you ever run into an online source where you can buy books from the US at a reasonable price, please let me know...
Otherwise, do save up!
congratulations on the release of your book!
i went through the three available sources to order from. seems that amazon is the only one that can ship to me (singapore). will do the ordering later through a friend. they don't accept paypal, and i have a friend who ships stuffs in regularly from amazon, so i'll get him to do it for me! :)
(so that means it's impossible for that autograph, eh?) i guess there will be way too many copies for you to humanly autograph. just pressing my luck, lol!
congrats that it's out! I'm looking forward to reading it soon.
So where's the "global economy" when you need it?? Glad you can get it anyway. It just sounds like if people are in eastern countries they have to go through quite a bit of bother or pay a lot of postage.
You know, I haven't had a chance to figure out if that can work - signing books. The basic problem is that I can't sign anything by myself (can't even pay my own bills anymore). My honest best guess is that it won't end up being feasible.
My handwriting was bad enough even when I was well; you'd probably just have been going "So what's this little black squiggle thing?" even if could have done it...
HAYDEN: I'll sound Buddhist here to say:
There is no "here" that isn't "there..."
That is, at this point you can only order it online from Amazon, Target, or, if you're a librarian, WorldCat - although actually I think that just links to Amazon too. My links in this post all link to those sites.
Oh - now I think I see what you mean. Like when the site's revised, maybe then there'd be a here that isn't there?
But no...
And thanks --
PAULINE, thanks, and I hope so. Thing is, I figure the people who need to read it most are least likely. Take George Bush. What are the odds?
That must be why the world keeps doing things badly. The wrong people are reading books...
(It must be hard to tell, but I'm not really a historian...)
But from discussions here over many months, I feel that the end-point will be more universal! My it be influential, a turning-point, part of the solution, a signpost!
You are going to keep blogging, aren't you?
I’m hoping that from beginning to end it will be much clearer because of the level of organization and development of material that a book allows for.
CRYSTAL: Yes, there’s no problem for anyone in the US getting the book through Amazon – I suspect not Canada either. And once we have it in stock with Amazon UK, it will be as easy from there.
I’m glad you’re getting it. I find that I have specific personal reasons for hoping that many of the people I’ve met online will read it – and it’s funny you coming in right after Vincent. Because with the two of you, it’s similar. I’ve often had the feeling you’ve each been trying to figure just where I’m coming from and I've been well aware that I haven’t been able to be as clear as I’d like.
Now you’ll know exactly! And I’ll definitely continue the blog.
whoopee! that's when i'll be getting my copy. decided to order it myself instead of going through my friend. did all the keying in just now. a little phobic about credit card numbers but anyway, i shouldn't be too paranoid.
don't know why it will take that long. standard delivery was supposed to be a little faster. anyway, it's okay. i'm just happy i'm going to get it finally, after the long wait. :D
(i'll just imagine a squiggle somewhere as your signature, lol!)
Misti, interesting to know it's even possible to get a book from the US to Singapore that fast.
Amazon's the world's largest online book retailer - I feel good about their security. My sister has ordered just about every book she's read from there for years.
Hayden, from what I understand (and from me and my sister's purchases there) that's how it usually is inside the US - they're very prompt.
Thanks again to both of you, it's good to get feedback on orders, especially when we're just getting started.
I'm on my way over to Amazon right this minute!
love.
CARRIE: Great! This is fun. I'm glad I decided to do this post even though the site revisions weren't ready yet - that should be done by Wednesday.
Congrats, you must be so thrilled!
FIREBIRD: I'm glad! Good to see you.
btw my Update is up :)
Keshi.
I'm pretty impressed already. May I quote this, from your Introduction, as a kind of trailer for your readers who have not yet ordered?
Meaning in life is learning to swim and how water feels against the skin. It is feeling what it's like to go with the flow and what it's like to struggle against strong currents. It is knowing water as our own element: from out of which we were born, into which we can live, and into which we are to die wonderingly.
Magnificent.
I've actually been pretty sure you'd like it because it's based closely on experience and I've tried not to let my concepts stray far from experience.
You could say they exist just as a kind of ordering mechanism or packaging for experience - to make it more memorable and portable, so to speak.
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