IT’S POSSIBLE TO REACH GOD THOUGH MANY DIFFERENT PATHS: How I Came to Vedanta w/ Dr Jeffery D. Long

After the death of his father, Dr. Long began, what became a lifelong spiritual quest into the nature of life, death, rebirth, and consciousness. Dr. Jeffery D. Long is a leading authority in Religious Pluralism, the many paths to ultimate truth and realization of our oneness. Dr. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania. Dr. Long is the author of four books including, A Vision for Hinduism, Jainism: An Introduction, the Historical Dictionary of Hinduism and, most recently, Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds. In 2018, Dr. Long received the Hindu American Foundation’s Dharma Seva Award for his work to promote accurate and sensitive portrayals of Hindu traditions in the American education system and media. He has spoken conferences in India at which His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has also talked. Dr Long has given talks at prestigious venues around the world, including Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and three presentations in 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York. This is his story and this is his Passion. PASSIONATE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT - Conservative Catholic to embracing Hinduism - Jainism - Finding the Bhagavad Gita - Religious pluralism – many paths to truth/oneness - Vedanta philosophy - Hinduism - Opening the mind to possibilities - We are not out physical body? - What happens after we die? - Reincarnation and rebirth - One consciousness - Is the soul eternal - Why are we here? - What is suffering and why do we suffer? - Karma ‘work’ - Marriage and Relationships - Meditation – control over our thoughts and emotions SPREAD THE PASSION HOST: Luisa WEBSITE: https://passionharvest.com/ WATCH THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/Yn-7b1kbWgg PASSION HARVEST ON SOCIAL YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/PassionHarvest/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/PassionHarvest/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Passionharvest SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/3BogbavOan3FP1r1JXLxmV SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/user-796690230 ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/passion-harvest/id1451566598 LEAVE A PODCAST REVIEW IN I TUNES http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1451566598 CONNECT WITH DR. JEFFERY D. LONG https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aRrsKvYAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.etown.edu/depts/religious-studies/faculty.aspx BOOKS: Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds and Perspectives on Reincarnation: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/hinduism-in-america-9781474248457/ Hindu, Christian, and Scientific https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1097