The Seeker's Guide - Elizabeth Lesser New softcover book

THE SEEKER'S GUIDE

by Elizabeth Lesser

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New softcover book, 436 pages.

Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

In 1977, Elizabeth Lesser cofounded the Omega Institute, now America's largest adult-education center focusing on wellness and spirituality. Working with many of the eminent thinkers of our times, including Zen masters, rabbis, Christian monks, psychologists, scientists, and an array of noted American figures - from L.A. Lakers coach Phil Jackson to author Maya Angelou - Elizabeth found that by combining a variety of religious, psychological, and healing traditions, each of us has the unique ability to satisfy our spiritual hunger.

In The Seeker's Guide, she synthesizes the lessons learned from an immersion into the world's wisdom traditions and intertwines them with illuminating stories from her daily life. Recounting her own trials and errors and offering meditative exercises, she shows the reader how to create a personal practice, gauge one's progress, and choose effective spiritual teachers and habits. Warm, accessible, and wise, this book provides directions through the four landscapes of the spiritual journey:

The Mind: learning meditation to ease stress and anxiety
The Heart: dealing with grief, loss, and pain; opening the heart and becoming fully alive
The Body: returning the body to the spiritual fold to heal and overcome the fear of aging and death
The Soul: experiencing daily life as an adventure of meaning and mystery

About the author

Elizabeth Lesser is the co-founder and senior adviser of Omega Institute, the largest adult education center in the United States focusing on health, wellness, spirituality and creativity. Omega Institute is situated in Rhinebeck, New York, and offers conferences and workshops attended by twenty thousand people a year. For more than 30 years, Elizabeth has studied and worked with leading figures in the fields of healing, spiritual development and cultural change. Her work at Omega has included co-directing the organization, curriculum research, conference weaving, teaching and writing the yearly Omega catalog, a reference book that describes the work of some of the most eminent thinkers and practitioners of our times.

Formerly a midwife, Elizabeth attended Barnard College and San Francisco State University. The mother of three grown sons, she lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband. She is the author of 2 books: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure and Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow.

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The Seeker's Guide - Elizabeth Lesser