Signals of Transcendence: Listening to the Promptings of Life

by Os Guinness

There must be something more to life. The modern world is a place of great distraction, and it can be difficult to make sense of our human existence. But at some point in our lives, we may experience particular moments that prompt us to search for something deeper. Sociologist Peter Berger described these hints and clues as "signals of transcendence" that awaken us to unseen realities. Os Guinness tells stories of people who experienced signals of transcendence and followed them to find new meaning and purpose in life. Notable figures such as Leo Tolstoy and C. S. Lewis as well as lesser-known individuals experienced a variety of promptings that signaled to them that life could not continue as they had thought. Through unsatisfied longings or disillusionments that yet yielded glimpses of beauty or joy, these moments drew people toward epiphanies of transformation. And the same can be true for us, should we have the courage to follow the signals wherever they may lead. Listen for the signals. And discover what more awaits those with ears to hear.

Genres: Christian, Theology, Philosophy, Religion, Faith, Cultural, Christian Living

1 pages, Audio CD

Published March 7, 2023

About the author

Os Guinness (D.Phil., Oxford) is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including The American Hour, Time for Truth and The Case for Civility. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he was the founder of the Trinity Forum and has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies. He lives near Washington, D.C.

Reviews

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Be ready… Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

[Conrade Yap · Rating 5 out of 5]

How do people find faith in God? What led them to recognize the divine presence in their lives? Why do people believe in God? Respected author Os Guinness tells us that it all boils down to positive responses toward divine promptings. These promptings come in many different forms. A lot of us might be expecting amazing signs and wonders happening in the terrestrial heavens or the skies above. Truth is, things often happen amid the ordinary circumstances of life. Sometimes, it occurs in periods of immense crises. "There must be something more to life as we know it." This is the basic question to gear one up toward anticipation of something bigger than ourselves. As people become more inward-looking, society is in need of people to have an outward-looking mindset. Lest we become a nation of self-loving, self-indulgent, and self-centered people. Ironically, the first step toward being more other-centered is the right perspective of oneself. The fundamental questions asked by Guinness all revolve around self-awareness and self-discovery: "Who am I? Why am I here? What is life all about?" I believe everybody asks one or more of these questions from time to time. If not, they would have been prompted in some ways, in what the author entitles, "signals of transcendence." For the Irish, these are "thin places." For students, questions can be gateways to answers. For readers, this book provides us a glimpse into the lives of ten famous individuals who had taken the leap of faith from unbelievers to believers. Malcolm Muggeridge, the popular English author who was often credited for making Mother Teresa famous, converted to Christianity after he "rediscovered Jesus." It was his deep search for home that led him to Christ. Austrian-born theologian, Peter Berger honors all mothers by recognizing their impact on their children. Mothers bring us into this world. Thus, in every child, there is a deep need for motherly assurance or reassurance. This need itself constitutes a "signal of transcendence." British-American poet, Wystan H Auden's signal comes in the form of the horrors of World War II. In a world where truth claims are increasingly relativized, Auden realized that the need for absolutes is deeply ingrained. Just like we need to call a spade a spade, the presence of evil means we need to call out evil as what it is, otherwise law and order in society will crumble. Like Auden, scholar Philip Hailie also grappled with the presence of evil in his quest for meaning in life. Pain and suffering from the Holocaust form part of the cultural identification as a Jew. His moment of divine awareness comes via a small town (Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in South-Central France) that practiced non-violent resistance against the Nazi regime. Instead of drowning in the multitudes of evil in this world, he finds hope in the smacks of goodness that defies evil. Just like the Talmudic saying, "Whoever saves a life is as one who has saved an entire world," Hailie was saved by his encounter with the goodness of the people in this town, which eventually led him to God. Renowned author G.K. Chesterton came to faith because of the humble dandelion. After living in a prolonged state of pessimism, Chesterton's life was changed because of "sheer beauty, the simple words of existence, gratitude for the gift of life." Popular Christian author C.S. Lewis also has that moment of transcendence that moved him from atheism to the Christian faith. His divine trigger? "Surprised by Joy." He even wrote a book by that title. Lewis who once called himself "the hardest-boiled atheist" was inspired by GK Chesterton's "The Everlasting Man" which demonstrates the uniqueness of Christ in the redemption of the world. Windsor Elliot is a fashion model whose adventure was less about the glamour of the fashion world and more about the questions of life. Not satisfied with the alternatives offered by New Age Spirituality or legalistic religion, she rises above the fake images of fashion, to respond to the promptings of transcendence. Her memoir "Faces" looks at the three faces of our lives: the faces we were born with, the faces that we try to make, and the faces that we eventually grow into. It was the latter that drives her search for meaning and the need to form good inner character. How we become is more important than the other two faces. The Russian author Leo Tolstoy is best known for his classic novels like "War and Peace," and "Anna Karenina." His search for life's meaning took a dramatic turn when he read Pascal's apologetic treatise, "Pensées." Spurred by a keen awareness of "life is short and death is certain," his writings soon deal more with faith matters. Guinness also writes about his Irish grandfather, Whitfield Guinness. Whitfield was a missionary to China during the tumultuous Boxer rebellion period. He met his wife, Jane who was a Swedish missionary also to China. Miraculously, they escaped the persecution and found love. Love was their signal of transcendence. The last character is British historian, Kenneth Clark. Clark is one who protected his privacy well, so well that not many people actually know him or his thoughts. The main way to understand him is through his writings, where he shares his religious experience in the church of San Lorenzo. For Clark, beauty is the key signal to transcendence.

My Thoughts
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Guinness has put together ten stories of individuals from different walks of life. All of them have one thing in common: An awareness of a calling bigger than themselves to a God that is beyond what this world can offer. Resembling mini-biographies, Guinness is able to view their lives from the perspective of faith in a world gone mad. These people are busy people with their respective work, jobs, careers, and businesses. Instead of getting swallowed up by the activities, they responded to the promptings along the journey of life, and eventually found faith in God. It is not good to be stuck in our busy ways without paying attention to the signals of life. We need to pause and pay attention. It is not enough to simply pay attention by hearing the prompts. We need to respond. It is not enough to simply respond, we need to turn in the right direction. Sometimes, I feel that people want big answers to the big questions of life. According to the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, life is meant to be lived forward but understood backward. Whether through music, history, phenomena, or some current events, we can try to ignore these signals but we risk missing out on insights beyond our comfort zones.

I applaud Guinness for the way he summarizes the lives of these ten eminent characters and shows us that we all can learn from their experiences. God does not touch only the lives of the rich and the famous. He calls us all to Him. Whether it is the beauty of creation, an escape from danger, a "finger of God," or the face of the future, the way forward begins not with the first step but with the first prompting. If we are honest with ourselves, God will always try to prompt us with signs and gentle whispers. We need to be open. We need to listen well. We need to respond positively. Hopefully, sooner rather than later, we can experience our very own "signals of transcendence" and will live to write or share about it.

Os Guinness (DPhil, Oxford) is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Dust of Death, The Call, Fool's Talk, Last Call for Liberty, and The Great Quest. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he has a lifelong passion to make sense of our extraordinary modern world and stand between the worlds of scholarship and ordinary life, helping each to understand the other. He lives with his wife, Jenny, in the Washington, DC, area.

Rating: 4.75 stars of 5.

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This book has been provided courtesy of InterVarsity Press and NetGalley without requiring a positive review. All opinions offered above are mine unless otherwise stated or implied.

[Michele Morin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Living at warp speed seems to be our default in 2023 as we race, half-blind and mostly deaf, from event to event and from milestone to milestone. Occasionally, however, God graciously plants a particular moment along our course that breaks through the distraction, sending us in search of something more meaningful and lasting. Os Guinness calls these moments Signals of Transcendence, and he has selected ten stories from the lives of people who experienced a transforming glimpse of beauty or joy or a flash of insight pointing to a larger reality.

His selection of subjects couldn’t be more diverse. He has included Christian standards like C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton and well-known writers like Malcolm Muggeridge, W.H. Auden, and Leo Tolstoy. But I was introduced to some new thinkers as he shared the stories of Windsor Elliot, Peter Burger, and his own grandfather, Whitfield Guinness.

These subjects experienced something more jarring and life-altering than a moment in a “thin space,” for a signal of transcendence is “like having a knife thrust through the membrane” between the natural and the supernatural. Guinness emphasized the particular significance of these formative moments, for “signals only signal.” They point toward a truth that can be pursued–but it can also be ignored.

Those who make the choice to listen are invited into wonder, discovery, and lasting change as they find themselves living above the distraction endemic to this Kingdom of Noise. Even so, Guinness reiterates the caveat that these show-stopping events in our lives are “pointers and not proofs.” Each reader will respond uniquely–either leaning in or rushing by the signal.

At each chapter’s end, I appreciated this drumbeat of reason: “Each signal of transcendence sounds out its own special call. No signal is a signal for everyone to hear, so one person’s signal is another person’s silence. Be ready, then, for the call that will come to you in your life. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

To be honest, I had decided at some point that I wouldn’t be reading any more of Guinness’s work. Apologetics isn’t my favorite genre, and I had found his work to be very heavy and heady, but this latest offering is positively irresistible, and I know I’ll be returning to its marked-up, dog-eared pages.

Whether one’s signal of transcendence comes as a call to justice, an encounter with goodness or beauty, or an irresistible longing for joy, as we listen to the promptings of life, I believe our view of God and his ways will be brighter and our following more faithful.

Many thanks to IVP for providing a copy of this book to facilitate my review, which is, of course, offered freely and with honesty.

[Michael Philliber · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would sit enthralled as the old Colonel would pace the floor telling stories of serving under General Patton in WW II. The commandant of our High School JROTC was striving to get us young adolescents to think bigger than just their hormones and hungers. To do this he recalled life experiences that drew from others long gone to teach us leadership values. Os Guinness, author or editor of over thirty-five books and founder of Trinity Forum, does something similar in his newly published 128-page softback “Signals of Transcendence: Listening to the Promptings of Life”. Guinness retells the fascinating stories of ten people who were tripped up by “signals of transcendence” in their lives, those “arresting and intriguing experiences that both capture our attention and call for further explanation” (1). This delightful manual is the type of work that is easily digestible by teens and twenties and on to those in retirement.

Guinness recounts an abbreviated version of the lives of ten people, from Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Berger to Windsor Elliot and Leo Tolstoy and more. Since, for moderns, “we have grown unused to the sound of any voice beyond the immediate” (5), his special focus is on when the signals of transcendence broke into these lives to spur each person to begin searching because they sensed something was deeply missing, something more than the voice of the immediate. As the author observes, we live in an era where the “overwhelming majority of people appear to be comfortable with their myopia” (16), and these accounts prompt us to think and care sufficiently enough to begin asking questions that are larger than our narrowness.

But Guinness is very clear that each person’s experience he narrates is unique enough that we shouldn’t expect identical encounters. Rather, he hopes it will build up in us an anticipation, a readiness for the signals of transcendence that may well “flash” into our narrow existences and give us a glimpse into the thin places and spaces between the seen and unseen. Though I deeply enjoyed each account, the one that was most touching was Philip Hallie as he came to recognize the darkness of his place, how he had gazed into the face of cruelty, becoming cruel himself, and into that black abyss broke in a spark of hope from an unlikely, almost unremembered people. That signal of transcendence was like a lifeline that drew him up out of the miry pit and set his feet on a rock.

“Signals of Transcendence,” though short, is packed with stories striving to get us to think bigger. Guinness, like my old High School JROTC commandant, is virtually pacing the floor regaling us with “and these people found that there was more to life than their obsessions and observations. So, learn from them and anticipate!” This manuscript would make a great addition to the libraries of anyone you know, older and younger alike. And as a pastor I can say that there’s potent sermon illustration stuff just sitting there waiting for my fellow ministers. I highly recommend the work.

My thanks to IVP for sending me a copy at my request. They made no demands. They gave out no brides. Therefore, my review is freely made, and I give it out freely to the reader.

[JJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rich stories of those seeking more to the question of life and finding it through unique experiences. My only criticism of this book is there is no notes or sources included from the quotes used. He mentions books but specific notes would be helpful too.

[Jameson E · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life. Changing.

[Isaac · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disclaimer: My mom asked me to read this book, and even though I don’t have a lot of nice things to say about it I was happy to do it!

It was interesting to read this book immediately after Michael Pollan's How To Change Your Mind as there seem to be parallels between this book's titular "Signals" and the (mostly drug induced) mystical experiences described by Pollan. The signals are more like sudden conclusions or intuitions and not full-blown mystical experiences, but they both result in a complete confidence in some previously hidden or overlooked truth.

I’m a materialist and agnostic myself but I like to think I hold all that loosely and thoroughly enjoy stories about people having life-changing moments regardless of if the result of an LSD trip or Christian revelation. In the hands of a better writer this book might’ve been great, but in the hands of Os Guinness not so much. I think a better writer would've focused on the stories and let them make the points, but Os is so busy editorializing (or sermonizing) that the stories are barely there.

Os clearly wrote this book for a Christian audience and didn't spend much time thinking through his arguments might land for someone outside the faith. He's constantly jumping to conclusions that I don’t think follow unless you start a premise of Christian faith. "Daisies are beautiful, a random process couldn't do that, therefore God!"

Os loves to name drop philosophers and thinkers, but I felt like he never engaged with their ideas. He’d just pull a quote out of context, or name drops them, then carries on with his uninspired diatribes about joy or evil or love (love that makes babies, none of that depraved stuff). His telling of the allegory of the cave, which he references throughout the book, is this morality tale of a prisoner getting out, seeing the sun (a metaphor for God of course), then telling his fellow prisoners about the sun and being rebuked. I had to go back and re-read the allegory since I didn’t remember that at all. To be fair to Os, it’s there… I guess, but it seems like a simplistic interpretation and not at all what I got out of it.

[Aaron Shamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent book from Os Guinness!

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Summary: The stories of people who have experienced signs or promptings that there is more to life awakening them to pursue the unseen realities beyond the signal.

Peter Berger has described the experience of a sense that there is “something more” with the phrase “signals of transcendence.” In Irish parlance, it is the sense that the barrier between the seen and unseen is barely there. This is all the more significant in the “world without windows” we modern versions of Plato’s cavedwellers inhabit. Os Guinness contends that such signals still come to us. Will we heed, and then search for the transcendent source beyond the signal.

The signals vary for each of us. Guinness tells the stories of ten individuals who, in different ways encountered such signals. For Malcolm Muggeridge, swimming from shore to end his life, one final glance back at the shore lights filed him with so mich hope he needed to find its source, a search of many years. For Peter Berger, the mother’s assurance that “all will be well” in a world where that cannot truly be promised signals a deeper reality where this is so.

For Phillip Hallie, driven to despair with the horrors of the Holocaust, the unworldly goodness of Le Chambon’s people who rescued 5000 Jewish children, rescued him as well. For Chesterton, consumed with the evil in the world, the sight of a beautiful dandelion set off a “thin thread of thanks” and a search for a worldview that could explain a world of brokenness and beauty, which he found eventually in Christianity.

The signals are different for each of us, contends Guinness. For fashion model Windsor Elliott, it was the sense of emptiness at a glamourous gathering that began the quest for something more. For C.S. Lewis, on the other hand, it was glimpses of joyful longing that caught his attention.
Guinness urges our readiness to hear the call and reiterates in each chapter, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.” Yet his last story is that of Kenneth Clark, who experienced “the finger of God” in a church in San Lorenzo yet did not heed the signal until on his deathbed when he was received into the church, as attested by those with him. It’s never too late in this life.

He includes his own grandfather’s story, caught up in the Boxer Rebellion, narrowly escaping alive. He writes with a sense of the preciousness and significance of our lives. While he focuses on the signals of the something more for which we are made, he urges the quest for that something, elaborated more fully in his previous book, The Great Quest.

This is a wonderful book for someone who, in Frederick Buechner’s words is “listening to one’s life” and longing for more. Far from being distracted or thinking oneself crazy, Guinness assures us that the signals are worth heeding and the quest pursuing. He who seeks, finds.
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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary review copy of this book from the publisher.

[Larry White · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slim Volume, Weighty Matter

Os Guinness has been sounding an alarm for some time now, alerting us to come to our collective senses before it’s too late (e.g., “A Free People’s Suicide”, “Last Call for Liberty”, “The Magna Carta of Humanity”, “Zero Hour America”). Now, in “Signals of Transcendence”, he invites us individually to be alert. While not abandoning his plea for America, and the West in general, he is more explicit in coming to the realization that our problems are so weighty as a society that nothing short of an Awakening will overcome them. And Great Awakenings can only be the accumulation of individual Awakenings to the transcendent signals that are bound to emerge in each of our lives.

Guinness makes the point that no two signals of transcendence are likely to be alike, so we must be alert when they occur. His book gives ten examples in ten brief chapters of the signals that alerted ten people to the search for greater meaning, including: a realization on the precipice of suicide, a mother’s reassurance, an experience at a Nazi propaganda film, the overwhelming (Guinness says “heart-cracking”) goodness of a French village in WWII, a contemplation on the human need for joy, a sudden realization of the absurdity of chosen priorities in life, and others. He chronicles the unique signals experienced by people in very different circumstances, many well-known and some personal to the author (including, it appears, his wife, whom he doesn’t identify in that respect). Some may resonate deeply, others not much at all, but the message is clear that the signals are the beginning and should be heeded. As Guinness ends each chapter, “Be ready, then, for the call that comes to you in your own life. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

“Signals” is a complementary work to another Guinness book, “The Great Quest”, that is now on my reading list.

[Mary Erickson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was asked to read and review this book by a friend.

The basic premise is that people may experience moments of transcendence--moments when the divide between the unseen supernatural and the materialistic ordinary becomes thin. Moments that might lead you to consider that there is Something (or Someone!) out there, and that it's vital for a well-lived life not to ignore those promptings.

Os Guinness gives us ten examples of people who paid attention to those moments and made a change of direction, or began a pursuit toward where that revelation might lead them. Malcom Muggeridge, Peter Berger, W.H. Auden, C.S. Lewis, Leo Tolstoy, and others.

The chapters are short, and the "aha" moments are interesting. Less interesting are Guinness's own reflections, especially when he gets pretty heavy duty into philosophy. It's like there are two different books competing with each other. And I do wish Guinness could have presented examples from the lives of a broader range of people besides (mostly) dead white guys. The only exception was a chapter with Windsor Elliott--a former supermodel. . . and Guinness's second wife.

Here's the theme of the book, as repeated at the end of each chapter:

Remember that each signal of transcendence sounds out its own special call. No signal is a signal for everyone to hear, so one person's signal is another person's silence. Be ready for the call that comes to you in your own life. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

[John Sagherian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished reading Os Guinness’s “Signals of Transcendence: Listening to the Promptings of Life.” It was inspiring and enjoyable. I like reading biographies and this book had short biographical lines on 10 prominent people, some I knew of, like C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, and others I didn’t, like Windsor Elliott and Kenneth Clark; how things happened in their lives, “promptings”, that led them to stop, take note, and sometimes change direction to the benefit of mankind.

Guinness ends each chapter with the same challenge: “… each signal of transcendence sounds out its own special call. No signal is a signal for everyone to hear… Be ready for the call that comes to you in your own life.”

In the last chapter, the author writes about Moses who was stopped by the signal of God’s presence in the burning bush and was stunned by the reality. And his response shows the way to the response to God that , Guinness says, is appropriates for us all – “Here I am.”

I highly recommend this book.

[Linda Murphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Citizens living in this advanced modern world often live as if in a "world without windows", a shadow world such as Plato's cave. They are living the unexamined life, which, according to Socrates, is not worth living. There is a sense of something missing, an unnamable something more. This little book introduces us to ten people (five with whom I was familiar) who experienced what the author calls "signals of transcendence"--arresting, intriguing experiences which capture the attention and call for further explanation. They trigger a longing which, when followed, may lead to truth. These signals may be anything from a dandelion to a mother's love to a feeling of absurdity or meaninglessness. Some may try to silence the signal; others follow. Only those who seek will find. There really IS a reason for our human restlessness. In the words of Augustine, "You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You."

[Mart Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Os Guiness is a champion for encouraging people to think - to at least ask the big questions and, hopefully, seek some answers. This book, companion to The Great Quest, offers stories of people, some well-known, a few not, who paid attention to a prompt that set them on a course to discovery. But, as he points out, those prompts are different for everyone, and he shares interesting examples of how they might be experienced. I learned some things that I didn't know about familiar names (Tolstoy and Auden, for example). It's not a long read but has led me to consider, "What was the prompt that led me to ask the big questions?" I going to explore that.

[Zak Schmoll · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an outstanding book. It is a companion to Peter Berger's A Rumor of Angels, and it explores the idea of ways in which elements of our natural lives point towards the existence of the supernatural. We long for order. Could we perhaps desire order because there is a transcendent God of order? This book considers these concepts through stories of famous individuals like GK Chesterton, CS Lewis, Leo Tolstoy, and others. I highly recommend this book, and if you have ever wanted to read Berger but got bogged down, this might help you with that.

[Gayle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this book would be interesting and it was, in the parts I could follow. I've not read Os Guinness before and I was hoping the subject of this book, and its format with chapters on various people, would lend itself to my understanding it. I was able to follow most of it but got bogged down in some chapters. I guess I'm just not enough of an academic to really bite off this author. I liked his point but wouldn't really enthusiastically recommend it to anyone.

[Aaron Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

If we open our eyes to let in the light of truth, we will see signals of transcendence pointing to another world quite removed from our own. These signals include morality (evil as well as goodness), hope, love, gratitude, joy, beauty, meaning(lessness) and mortality. Guinness gives examples through experiences of characters such as Malcolm Muggeridge, A.H. Auden, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Leo Tolstoy and others.

“…even people who do not believe in eternity have immortal longings…”

[W F · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have not finished reading the book but I was intrigued by the author's claim of 17 million Chinese killed during the Japanese invasion of China. What was the source of this number?
R. J. Rummel (hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM) put the number closer to six million.
By contrast, the Holocaust killed 21 million whereas the Communist Chinese killed 35 million during its rule, and the Soviet Gulag state killed almost 62 million.

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm glad I read this little book! Os Guinness is an amazing writer. In this book he talks about how we all hear our own personal signal of transcendence. He writes of various people, some famous & well known, some not, who have heard and responded to their own signal of transcendence, and how their lives were changed by it.

[Sam Corey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like the idea of this book. But I think it could have been made better if the author had done some of his own research/analysis on this concept or written more about personal applications we can draw. Overall this book seemed to be a bunch of summaries of stories I could have found elsewhere.

[Caleb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Over hyped

[Dimitri Seletzky · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an excellent and elegant little book, in the vein of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. The book is Lewisian in its clarity, the stories recounted are illuminating and inspiring.

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is only 122 pages long. It takes careful reading. Very powerful. Christian.

[Carolyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Will read again. "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A little jewel…the answer to the unnameable longings.

[Ryan Garrett · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars

[Zeke Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book on the transcendent moments that lead people to God. In particular I was interested to learn more about Tolstoy

[Kathleen Vitello · Rating 5 out of 5]

He who has ears to hear, let him hear. If you are seeking to find meaning this is helpful. If you are not yet seeking, may you not miss the signal when it comes.

[C.S. Areson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting with insight but only if you have ears to hear.

[Amy Berti · Rating 5 out of 5]

How did you first know there was more to life than “this?” Oz explores the epiphanies that changed the lives of famous philosophers and people he personally knows.