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Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

de Barbara Ehrenreich

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"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, LIVING WITH A WILD GOD brings an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's uninhibited musings on the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. Ehrenreich's most personal book ever will spark a lively and heated conversation about religion and spirituality, science and morality, and the "meaning of life." Certain to be a classic, LIVING WITH A WILD GOD combines intellectual rigor with a frank account of the inexplicable, in Ehrenreich's singular voice, to produce a true literary achievement"--… (mais)
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Author has a mystical experience in youth but does not explore until old age. Lifelong atheist on principle comes to feel there may be something, but what?
  ritaer | Nov 17, 2022 |
I wish the first 10 or 11 chapters had been condensed into about 3, and the final chapter fleshed out for the body of the book. To E., her own experience is the most interesting and the rest of human history is merely supporting evidence. For me it's the other way around. It's a testament to my respect for E. that I kept slogging through. I'm glad I did; she did get there in the end, tho I think she seriously short-changed the most interesting discussion. It's not a fair criticism, but I wish this were a research volume instead of a memoir.

And could atheists pulease stop being so impressed with themselves for "disproving" Genesis? At least E. eventually has the insight to realize that that's all she's done, and that it's not actually much of a feat. ( )
  IVLeafClover | Jun 21, 2022 |
Barbara Ehrenreich was raised to be an atheist. When she was 17 she at an experience of transcendence that could be the beginning of a search for the meaning of life. Did she become a believer because of this mystical experience. No, not really, but she came to recognize that there was an Other. Is the Other out there or inside of us? Is it benign or malevolent? How are we to respond to this? The first to questions are explored but not answered. Not a bad place to leave off. We are still left with our own questions. ( )
  MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 |
My favorite point:

p214: "the rise of monotheism ...can also be seen as a process of deicide, a relentless culling of the gods and spirits until almost none is left." "Monotheism is the final abstraction, leaving humankind alone in the universe with the remote and perfect 'one true God'".

p234: "We have, in other words, made ourselves far lonelier than we have any reason to be."

We are essentially replacing gods with ourselves. Maybe this is why I find most organized religion so terribly boring! ( )
1 vote bowendwelle | Apr 19, 2021 |
I'm starting to realize how much I enjoy memoirs/biographies, but I often struggle to know what to say about them. As an older woman, she was haunted (in a sense) by an experience she had as a teenager. Nearly 60 years later, here she records her reflections, using her old journal for inspiration. There's little doubt that Ehrenreich's memoir will aggravate both atheists and theists, which might account for lower reviews and less popularity. If you haven't read her before, she's an out-spoken culture critic and political activist, best known for her book Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, who happens to also have a Ph.D in molecular biology. Her look on life is as honest and as critical as you will find. I thought her story-telling was compelling, her thought-process fascinating, and her conclusions provoking. A great exploration of truth and meaning in how we encounter mysterious otherness. Recommended for those who get stuck in their heads, especially with any sort of mystical bent.

Quotes:
The reason I eventually became a writer is that writing makes thinking easier, and even as verbally under-developed 14-year-old, I knew that if I wanted to understand the situation, thinking was what I had to do.

In reviewing books, she writes, "As here was Whitman, page after page of him, tremulous with desire in the lilac scented night. They were just doing their job, these poets, which is really the job of all us, to keep applying coat upon coat of human passion and grandiosity to the world around us, to try and cover up whatever it is that lies underneath."

In reflecting on a new high school in Los Angeles: ... I was rebelling against banality, but only if you understood by banality, the near universal refusal to recognize the situation, including the impending deaths of us all. It made me almost frantic that everyone could go on doing what they were doing without ever acknowledging what was going on, the steady turning of the earth and passage of days, leading as far as anyone could tell to the absolute darkness of nothing.... "What difference does it make?!"... "Much of my rebelliousness starts with indifference to what is urgently important to others."

"Hilarity is the best response to absurdity."

I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting skill beyond the effort to appear unperturbed in the face of the inexplicable which, as far as I can see, is one of central tasks of adulthood. ( )
  nrt43 | Dec 29, 2020 |
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I repeat: it is a disappointment when a rational person’s thinking about the unusual, the unexpected, the extraordinary, the amazing experiences of transcendence and unity that many of us have at heightened moments of life, suffers a declension into quasi-religious or supernaturalistic vagueness. The human brain is complicated enough to produce all these experiences from its own resources; we need no fairies in the garden to explain how roses bloom.

Indeed, the fact that it is the brain, and nothing mysterious outside it, that produces these experiences, is to me far more interesting and spectacular than the invocation of some vaguely hinted meaningful mist sneaking around reality’s backyard.

That disappointment registered, my admiration for Barbara Ehrenreich the author and campaigner remains, as it does for the book itself: it is so beautifully written, so full of pungent insights on matters other than a putative Other, and so fascinating as a portrait of an intense and hypersensitive mind, especially in its youth, that it must surely count as one of the best reads of the year.
 
Ms. Ehrenreich’s story, of which we get only passing glimpses ... is electric. ... The excellent writer in Ms. Ehrenreich makes herself known in “Living With a Wild God.” ... But right here and right now, I wish I could say “Living With a Wild God” didn’t feel like such a meandering trip.
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"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, LIVING WITH A WILD GOD brings an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's uninhibited musings on the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. Ehrenreich's most personal book ever will spark a lively and heated conversation about religion and spirituality, science and morality, and the "meaning of life." Certain to be a classic, LIVING WITH A WILD GOD combines intellectual rigor with a frank account of the inexplicable, in Ehrenreich's singular voice, to produce a true literary achievement"--

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