This month we want to recommend Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, by Rainn Wilson.
Rainn Wilson, actor, author, podcaster, and well known member of the Baha’i faith, explores the possibility and hope for a spiritual revolution, a “Soul Boom,” to find a healing transformation on both a personal and global level.
This book is a serious and essential pursuit. It is not only relevant, but necessary in our contemporary culture. That said, Wilson also brings great humor and his own unique perspective to the conversation. He feels that, culturally, we’ve discounted spirituality, faith and the sacred, and we need profound healing and a unifying understanding of the world that the great spiritual traditions provide. [book jacket]
“We humans are capable, through language and image and art, of indicating something beautiful and mysterious. It is the pointing that guides to the mystery. Language and metaphor are the finger. Poetry and music are the finger. Holy writings, divine texts, and religious wisdom are the finger. A spiritual teacher is the finger. Pointing to where? To the ancient, luminous moon of the essence of truth/God/beauty/wisdom. But be careful not to mistake the finger for the moon.”  — Tom Julius