Conversations Between Science and Religion How Life Is Like Hitchhiking

Published: Sept. 1, 2014, 4 a.m.

b'As Yogi Berra once said, predictions are very difficult -- particularly ones about the future. The same could be said about spiritual journeys "to find yourself" or your "true calling." We start out in one direction thinking it will be a direct route to enlightenment when, no sooner than we know it, we find the road closed and then off we go, like a hitchhiker catching a ride to an uncertain destination. In this book, A Spiritual Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Universe: Travel Tips for the Spiritually Perplexed (http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Hitchhikers-Guide-Universe-Spiritually/dp/1571745971), this week\'s guest, Paul Rademacher, tells of his journey from construction worker, to falling off a roof, to working as a minister, then as Executive Director of the Monroe Institute (http://www.monroeinstitute.org/), and now as publisher of Inner Story Magazin (http://www.innerstorymag.com/)e. His story is spiritual but even better: it\'s real.

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