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Man Seeks God – Flirtations with the Divine with Eric WeinerAired Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 4:00 PM PST / 7:00 PM EST“Have you found your God yet?” That blunt question, uttered by a well-meaning nurse to Eric Weiner after a health scare landed him in hospital launched the NY Times bestselling author on a far-flung journey across the globe to explore multiple religions in the hope of coming to a personal understanding of the divine and “find a faith that fits.” A self-confessed “spiritual voyeur” and inveterate traveler who was privy to a wide range of religious practices, but who had never seriously considered these concepts in his own life, Eric Weiner ‘s willingness to do anything to better understand faith saw him meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal, whirling with Sufi Dervishes in Turkey, unblocking his ‘chi’ in China, studying Kabbalah in Israel, and “enjoying” (?) a close encounter in Las Vegas with Raelians (followers of the world’s largest UFO-based religion). At each stop along the way, he tackl