Zen Birdwatching in America: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

What's the meaning of this life and where dowe find it? Through practical, everyday observations oflife, and deep meditations on the wisdom of the ages, Jay Nuzum exploresmeaning in his own life after reaching a point where all meaning seemed lost. "It was around the time I lost my job, myfather passed away, my grandmother passed, my wife contracted breast cancer atage twenty-seven, and I almost died . . ." Thus begins the true-life account of personaltransformation and a never-ending search for the Eternal in unexpected andunfamiliar places including a UFO encounter in West Virginia; a birdwalk with acrack addict; a vision on a mount; a near-death experience; flying a hundredfeet off the ground at a peyote ceremony; meeting the Buddha; and coming faceto face with an incarnation of Divine Mother. From theprofound to the profane, from the sacred to the absurd to the downrightbizarre, Jay Nuzum leads you along the footpath of an Everyman trying to find hisway through the beguiling maze of an American life. ZEN BIRDWATCHING IN AMERICA will touch yourheart, tickle your funny bone and make you a believer in the power of you.