cover image Entering the Sacred Mountain: A Mystical Odyssey

Entering the Sacred Mountain: A Mystical Odyssey

David A. Cooper. Harmony, $20 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-517-59653-1

``I am post-denominational,'' says Cooper, a former political consultant and a spiritual searcher who has at one time or another set up residence in Jerusalem to study Hasidic and kabbalistic Judaism; attended workshops with Sufi leader Pir Vilayat Khan; and experienced Buddhist meditative states at The High Hermitage, a Taos retreat center associated with Ram Dass. Seekers, eclectic and otherwise, will be interested in the readable, entertaining details of Cooper's spiritual journey. Descriptive narratives are spliced with mystical journal observations; and though the time devoted to such pursuits is beyond the perceived reach of most of us, Cooper asserts convincingly that the spiritual quest--with its sometimes mysterious, bizarre and blissful aspects--is quite within the reach of all of us. After all, he notes, ``almost all limits of spiritual inquiry are self-imposed.'' (June)