SOUL BOOM, Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, by Rainn Wilson
The world is at a tilt as world figures in industry, gaze over our globe with wolf juice dripping from their mouths. How in God’s name, on this once green earth, with young dreams, did a comedic actor, producer and writer, want to problem solve benefits, such as spirituality, a rightful reflection, spirituality which gives human kind actual solutions for a world experiencing gargoyle cramps?
Second question, how does someone who is a writer, who thinks Rainn is the funniest, dearest, deepest caring guy, who makes life seem friendly, like an open faced ham sandwich, with lots of mayo and thick crunchy bread, wants to review Soul Boom?
Rainn mentions his father, Bob Wilson, a lot, as he was highly influenced by him. To this reader Rainn and Bob have the same sly whimsy, and much more. My husband and I lived in Seattle for about six years, and we knew Bob well. When we met him, and as we walked into his living room, I noticed a gleaming steel framed dental chair, upholstered in an enchanting solid apple green leather covering, and I felt a grin coming on. Then, he had me, as on a wall in the next room, were several original paintings, local ones you might say, as they made mention of Wallingford, a neighborhood in Seattle. The paintings revealed several cows, upside down, floating over Wallingford, “Cows Over Wallingford," claimed a space in my memory box. This is one aspect of Rain’s heritage, and dimensions follow.
Soul Boom offers solutions to human sorrow and tantrums of the global kind. He speaks of perniciousness and kindness, and a separateness of a world that must come of age. Rainn has the courage to write a whimsical, ballsy, serious, spiritual, in-depth, broad-spectrumed ever-so contemporary account of why we humans must look with great depth into the structures of our world. His writing reveals a voice inside a velvet glove, this voice never exalting itself, but always concerned with, “How do we make our world better.”
He reveals an ocean of suggestions, minute, global, vast, oceanic in depth covering a subject about which people feel is shuffled under the global rug. Above all, never speak of religion, carved into our DNA in this culture, as is in education, we all have to be right. It’s all about the right answer, the right solution for these more than challenging times.
I loved his inclusivity of so many figures who came before us, and inclusion like a kaleidoscope of different Faiths’ wisdom. Rainn Wilson’s Soul Boom is about spirituality as a worldwide social movement going forward, about the maturation of humanity, and our need as a people to shift our perspectives to wider and deeper views. Oneness of a citizenry striving for justice and equality, and empathy and spiritual maturity has just come over the horizon in this Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.
I inhaled Rainn’s descriptions of himself, his beet-farming, paper-selling, tangentially Amish man-baby...” his comic side dominating. I snorted and snuffed, enchanted by his whimsies, and I would come to a wide-eyed wonder at the depth and integrity of Rainn’s sharing, his, ours, humanity’s, the silent ones. I thought,“This man is suggesting the path ahead has a sign post, and it reads, “becoming our true selves,” and I was hooked.
Can you tell I liked the book? Mikey likes it? Don’t miss this. Swallow it whole or teaspoon the pages, talk about it with others, and then well wishes to all of us who try and who help others along our archetypal paths. Best wishes and love to all. Thank you Rainn.
Esther Bradley-Detally, author, Without A Net: A Sojourn in Russia, and You Carry the Heavy Stuff
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Intelligent and honest
This is arguably one of the most honest books I've ever read. It's about how to be the best human you can be, and to be gracious when you (and others) aren't the best they can be. I appreciated Rainn highlighted the best of some religions and yet was transparent about where he finds faults. You can hear his voice as you read with how it's written.
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