How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere Volume II

A Further Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs

Edited by Andrew M. Davis

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January 2025

The spiritual journey is interior to each person, but not meant to be walked alone.

Much can be gained from trailing the spiritual narratives of those who have traveled ahead of us, for the God they have found, we may never have considered. How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere, Volume 2 again captures for a general audience the spiritual shift away from popular notions of a God “up there” and “out there” and toward immanent and inclusive understandings of a God in our very midst. It is built around the fascinating personal journeys of a close-knit group of prominent contributors, leaders including Christopher M. Bache, Jude Currivan, Amit Goswami, Kabir Helminski, Karen Johnson with Hameed Ali (A. H. Almaas), Sheri Kling, Berverly Lanzetta, Ervin Laszlo, Jay McDaniel, Raymond Moody, Peter Russell, Rupert Spira, and Becca Tarnas.

From dark nights of suffering and despair, to the joy of scientific and intellectual discovery, to the aesthetic beauty of music and nature, and the blissful—and at times dreadful—shock of psychedelic, mystical and near-death experience, these spiritual memoirs reveal exceptional encounters with the Holy Mystery—a universal Mind that exceeds but also includes our very own. And, unlike the first volume, this new book is deliberately catered toward group study with its “Questions for Discussion” and “Sages to Explore” sections at the end of each chapter.

Andrew M. Davis, PhD, is an American process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of cosmological wonder. He is program director for the Center for Process Studies where he researches, teaches, and organizes conferences. He is author and editor of several books including the scholarly Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy, and the popular first volume of How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere (Monkfish, 2017).

“By the time I reached the second chapter of this unique book, I had started recommending it to others. By the time I reached the last chapter, I felt its deep impact on my own life. Such rich stories, such clear, insightful, and at times tender writing, with common themes arising spontaneously and enriching one another ... this book takes the old Evangelical practice of 'giving testimony' and elevates it to a theological and philosophical practice.” —Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration

“This is a book for people who, in spite of themselves, cannot stop dreaming about God.” —Rabbi James Ponet, Emeritus Jewish Chaplain and Divinity School Lecturer, Yale University