Journey To The Centre Of My Being Author: Jim Wilson Publisher: Zen Publications Bind: paperback Dimensions: 153 x 230 mm Pages: 230 Publication Date: 01-11-2019 Jim Wilson is an adventurer: mountaineering; Antarctic exploration; adventure ?lms with Sir Edmund Hillary (on one of which he drove a jet boat up Mother Ganga from ocean to sky); climbing and school building with Sir Edmund in the Everest region of Nepal; and sailing to Paci?c islands in a small yacht. These physical adventures provide an exciting backdrop to this book. But Jim is also a religious adventurer. He relates in depth, with clarity and humour, his long journey in search of a satisfying way of understanding and experiencing the true nature of his self, and of his place in this mysterious universe. Studying Western philosophy and theology moved him away from intense involvement in the liberal Christianity of his parents. So he looked to India, inexhaustible source of inspiration. For two years he studied Indian philosophy and religion at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Then he taught for 23 years in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, returning many times to India and Nepal. Though profoundly moved by the religions he studied and taught about, he was unable to accept the metaphysical beliefs underpinning them. Increasingly, though, he became fascinated by modern scienti?c discoveries about the universe, and about our planet and the evolution of life on it. So he wove together elements from religious and scienti?c traditions. In particular

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