The Road Within: True Stories of
Transformation and the Soul
(Travelers Tales Guides)
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The Travelers Tales publishers have produced another hard-to-put-down
read with The Road Within, the latest in their series of experiential guides,
which is based on a simple and ancient premise: that the experience of
other travelers provides our best map to a strange land. With this book the
land is uncharted indeed, as it seeks to delve into the mysteries of the
human heart and soul. Authors such as Annie Dillard, Huston Smith,
Natalie Goldberg, and Barry Lopez use their travels in the exterior world to
do some interior navigation. Based on the fact that some journeys are
destined to alter our lives irrevocably, this is a guidebook that can
accompany you to any destination--where memories, not maps, make the
terrain most palatable and exciting.
Personal Review: The Road Within: True Stories of
Transformation and the Soul (Travelers Tales Guides)

I didn't intend to buy this book, but (I swear) it jumped off a bookshelf and
into my hands. Yes, it is true, I paid full price in a real world bookstore.
The perils of impulse buying are rewarded sometimes by treasures.
This book has chapter after chapter of interesting articles by a variety of
travelers who find some spiritual message in their journeys. Amazon
leaves out the part of the chapter that makes this sound like a spiritual
book ("transformation", "soul"), calling it True Stories of Life on the Road,
but I have the book in my hands, and the title is as shown above. There is
no 'new age' feeling to the stories, nor are there tons of meetings with
angels. Instead, there are true, perhaps slightly odd, stories of encounters
with one's own inner being, through travel experiences. Each chapter is
by a different, often well-known traveler or writer - the writing is of an
excellent quality. In one chapter, a man far away from his wife through
miles and emotional connection has a frightening event and calls his wife.
But before he can tell her the details, she tells him of a dream she had.
Her dream is not an exact rendition of his event, but so close that it is
clear they were connected. Other stories may tell of spiritual adventures,
ventures that changed a life, or life, death, worship practices in other
lands.
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