The Seeker Chronicles: Eliezer Sobel, The 99th Monkey

Big Sur. One of places Eliezer outlayed the good partial of his adult life. | Photo: prawnpie

Alex Andreis Q & A Series with Deep Thinkers

This week, we pose the little questions to Eliezer Sobel, the writer of The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Jouralists Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, as well as Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments. Eliezer has outlayed many of his hold up seeking answers to the large questions as well as essay as well as vocalization about his quests.

ALEX: Can we share the small bit about your credentials as well as current professional focus?

ELIEZER: we have no current professional focus, because we am not the professional; we am an amateur, part-time human being, with the credentials in heated suffering, anxiety as well as depression, devout seeking, therapeutic interventions, authorised as well as bootleg drugs, as well as the Holocaust.

I have additionally clinging the lot of my hold up to essay as well as music, leading workshops as well as retreats, as well as pizza delivery, although we was dismissed after several nights for receiving dual hours to deliver the singular pizza. (The streets in Hackensack, New Jersey are really confusing.)

ALEX: What was the experience or who was the person which helped we learn
the many about yourself?

ELIEZER: It has been said which if we wish to know how cordial the (male) Zen Master is, ask his wife. My wife Shari is available to respond to all inquiries per my level of personal development.

I should mention, though, which she was the Transformational Breathworker as well as Kundalini Yoga Teacher until she met me, then gave all which up to aspire to the Ph.D. in Mindfulness as the strategy to deal with pity her hold up with me.

Photo: Eliezer Sobel

ALEX: Wheres your favorite place to go to cruise low thoughts?

ELIEZER: All of my thoughts are shallow as well as superficial. And repetitive. Or during best, pornographic. we wasnt even aware which it is possible to cruise low thoughts. Are we revelation me which other people are out there thinking low thoughts? Seriously?

ALEX: What place have we visited where we felt the strong devout connection?

ELIEZER: The Hilton Hotel in downtown Boston, where we experienced my initial loyal devout awakening in 1975, during the end of the est training. we additionally outlayed the night alone during the top of Mt. Sinai once, but it wasnt scarcely as powerful the place as the Hilton.

ALEX: If we could have dinner with any person (living or dead) who would we select as well as why?

ELIEZER: Jesus, because we missed his final supper. we heard which Judas got the doggie bag.

ALEX: Whats the quote which we cruise particularly inspiring?

ELIEZER: My one bewail in hold up is which we am not someone else. Woody Allen.

Is it now yet? Dan Brown (the meditation teacher, not the Da Vinci code guy.) Dan additionally said, The benchmark of progress [on the devout path] is experiencing extemporaneous states of care as well as gratitude.

ALEX: Whats your ultimate project?

ELIEZER: To develop better meta-cognitive recognition skills; meaning, to be better means to dispassionately declare the stupidity of my mind from the perspective of the Vast as well as Boundless Ocean of Pure Being rather than from the indicate of perspective of the small schmuck who lives inside my head as well as tends to mutilate everything.

ALEX: Thank we so most for pity with our readers the little of your thoughts.

If youre meddlesome in guidance more about Eliezer, revisit his site during www.eliezer! sobel.co m.

This is the series of interviews with devout seekers as well as trailblazers.

If we or someone we know would have the great interview subject, hit Alex Andrei as well as yield the short description of your seeker cred.


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