After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel.

Drawing on personal experiences--her own and those of the parishioners at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore--Beverly Hall Lawrence has written about the social and cultural transformation that is happening in America.

The author is a Christian minister who taught comparative religion at a small liberal arts college. When she taught Judaism, she wanted to be a rabbi. When she taught Buddhism, she wanted to be a monk. It was only when she taught Christianity that the fire sputtered, because her religion looked so different once she saw it lined up against the others. In this book she tells how she lost her faith, and what happened next. [From publisher's description]...

A "tale of physical grandeur and emotional transformation, a journey around the world that ultimately explores the depths of the human heart. A journalist and young mother, Henion combines her own varied experiences as a parent with a panoramic tour of the world's most extraordinary natural wonders"--Dust jacket flap.