Faith Adiele teleseminar on "Reflections on the Inward Journey"

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Faith Adiele teleseminar on "Reflections on the Inward Journey"

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Join Converzations That Matter guest-host Ruth King and her guest Faith Adiele, who is the author of Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey (W.W. Norton), which received the PEN Beyond Margins Award for memoir. Faith, who was raised as a Unitarian, chronicles in her memoir the twists and turns in her spiritual journey that led her to becoming Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun.

The May, 2007 issue of "O" Magazine, reveals that "Meeting Faith was my attempt to make sense of the moment, 20 years ago, when I, a textbook liberal with no interest in spirituality, flunked out of college, shaved my head and moved to the Thai forest--ostensibly to study nuns but actually to see if temporarily becoming one could fix my life." She also shares how being a young woman who had never meditated became someone "sitting 72 hours straight, dumping fear and pain and anger on the forest floor." Faith's life and her unique personal and spiritual journey is profoundly instructive.