eat/PRAY/love by elizabeth gilbert: a book review?

aight ... the short review is: I LOVE THIS BOOK! GO BUY IT!

what else? where do i start??? many of you probly heard about this book ... it's pretty mainstream now ... lots of young white girls are reading it on NYC trains ... mid-aged white women too ... you can pick it up at any major book chain and read the back ........... i'm not going to give you a literary synopsis. i'ma tell you what i saw and felt in those pages.

first and foremost: GOD. that white lady was scared to write about God (she said it in the book) cuz she knew how her majority white audience, family, and friends would be put off by such direct talk. but she couldn't avoid it and neither can i. i think this white lady is going to make GOD cool again for white people. she is going to help white people find their lost spirit. is it lost collectively? kinda ... i'm not no expert (does the double negative imply that i really AM?) and i don't really wanna go too deep into it. BUT many (not all) white people are out of touch with their god-spirit. sure, they HAVE one but ......................... and honestly, the book affirmed for me that average white people do have a god-spirit (see future blog on more about the adverse effects of being a racist).

back to the book! so, this book has a lot of social relevance for our current times and a lot of spirituality. on a larger social level i believe this book signals a shift away from scientific method modernity towards non-fundamentalist spirituality. the GOD in this book loves all denominations and all religious affiliations. the God in this book has no doctrine or rules or book. i know i know the book has no book ... but i kinda like that play on words. and that is the future of religion.

the future (God willing) is the end of all this east/west bickering. the future foretells the end of this religious fighting. the future is in the common threads that link all religions together (those that are not demonic) ... which are simply that God is love and we should treat one another with love. once we recognize this we can all love each other no matter what the other believes. then we will be one people. one humanity. in my mind, one afrika (we all came from there anyway).

well, this book pushes us in that direction and i'm all for it.

i love this book on a personal level too. this woman has a real zest for life that i wish more people would embrace. i love how this woman understands that eating food (here i go again) is a sensual and spiritual experience. and this chick is funny. sarcastic and witty; she had me laughing out loud.

she also provides a practical plan for healing and self-discovery. yoga, meditation, and prayer cleansed her and patched her up. she goes IN DEPTH into how all of these actually apply to her life. she talks about how she had to fall on the bathroom floor and call for the lord. she talks about what God's voice sounds like in her ear. she talks about the actual physical and spiritual sensations one might feel in meditation. all in plain motherfuckin english.

lastly ... i am inspired by her story. it's a love story. she learned to love herself. she found inner peace. she is testifying to us all. i am listening and trying to learn because i'm headed in that direction.

see you in the future in love.