{"id":8679,"date":"2009-04-06T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2009-04-06T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:56:53","slug":"spiritual-journey-home-eastern-mysticism-to-the-western-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8679","title":{"rendered":"&#8216; Spiritual Journey Home &#8211; Eastern Mysticism to the Western Wall&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff emails: &quot;If you&#8217;re into yoga and meditation, you might find interesting the book I&#8217;m reading now: Nathan Katz&#8217;s memoirs titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spiritual-Journey-Home-Eastern-Mysticism\/dp\/1602801169\">Spiritual Journey Home &#8211; Eastern Mysticism to the Western Wall<\/a> (published by Ktav). He&#8217;s a professor of religious studies whose career focuses on Hindu and Buddhist practices. He talks about his journeys through the far east, studying meditation and ancient texts. I haven&#8217;t yet gotten to the part where he returns to Judaism. I&#8217;m kind of lost among the far eastern stuff but you might find it interesting.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff emails: &quot;If you&#8217;re into yoga and meditation, you might find interesting the book I&#8217;m reading now: Nathan Katz&#8217;s memoirs titled Spiritual Journey Home &#8211; Eastern Mysticism to the Western Wall (published by Ktav). He&#8217;s a professor of religious studies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2354],"tags":[17097,17094,17093,17095,17092,17096],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","category-yoga","tag-ancient-texts","tag-buddhist-practices","tag-eastern-mysticism","tag-journey-home","tag-nathan-katz","tag-spiritual-journey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}