Meetings with Mentors by Soren Gordhamer

Abstract

The book, Meetings with Mentors, includes 13 engaging interviews with authors and teachers: Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Arnold Mindell, Sam Keen, John Robbins, Ondrea Levine, Starhawk, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Joan Halifax, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Strozzi Heckler, Malidoma Some and Teru Imai.

Cultures throughout history have valued initiation for their youth. Although rites of passage have been mostly forgotten in our time, youth reaching their late teens and twenties still long to go on a journey that re-unites them with the ways of nature.

The interviews cover discussions of mentoring, rites of passage, spiritual awareness, and practical decision-making about life directions, as well as many interesting stories about the lives of these authors.

In his early twenties, author Soren Gordhamer decided to contact the authors and teachers whose writings had inspired him and ask to talk with them. He wanted to hear their stories and learn how they had found their own unique ways to contribute in the world. Most importantly, Soren wanted to ask these mentors how young people could forge a different path and make life decisions that would satisfy their spiritual and community values and still be economically practical.