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Title: Maddening
Review: A work of supreme self-indulgence. Katz needs to re-read the 7 Story Mountain, then take a look at Augustine's Confessions and Dorothy Day's Long Lonelines, and see what was really at stake for these great seekers. A vague "quest for the spiritual" is doomed to self-absorbed circularity which may be fascinating to the subject but is dull to the outsider. The spiritual seeker looks for truth, not mere peace of mind, because he or she realizes that the essential question being asked is "why am I here and what am I supposed to do with this life?" and the answers to that are not found in the self, but in the One who brought the Self into being. The reviewer below is right. You can't divorce spirituality from theology. Besides the Christians I mentioned above, Katz might take a look at the Buddhist thinkers before he runs away again: "Whereever you go, there you are."
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