Seekers & Speakers: Learning to Walk Your Own Path

"An experiential, metaphysical and intellectual tour de force" - Greg Wilmot (psychologist)"Seekers and Speakers is a series of conversations between authors Arthur Telling and Chirag Patel which cuts "to the heart of phenomenology, meaning, esoterica, and everything in between."It draws on their respective life experiences - from what it means to be "born in faith" as a Hindu in the Gujarati diaspora, and to grow up between two cultures ("embedded in that peculiarly agnostic Church of England marinade where class and appearance matter far more than belief") to Telling's experience of his mother, gravely ill and refusing to accept assistance from 911 until she had straightened up the living room ("a way for her ailing psyche to maintain mental order and stability.")

Arthur and Chirag refer to a wide range of thinkers from Edward Said and Frederic Jameson, to Eckhart Tolle, Krishnamurti, and Alan Moore, . They also dicuss the similarities and differences between many religious texts, canonical and esoteric. They use these in anecdotes that bring to life a series of questions about who we are, why we search, and what it means to make your own reality. Seekers and Speakers is not a intended to provide specific guidance or a clear path to self-help. In fact, it was written because too many books claim to help you find your way and then disappear into meaningless abstraction or dictate so much that you'll never truly open your mind. This book attempts to address that problem, and to help others seeking greater truths about the world and themselves find their path, and to not feel so alone.

Seekers and Speakers "is precisely the text that is needed to navigate the previously siloed and divided spaces between religion, reality, logic, and the rollercoaster of the human lived experience. Chirag Patel and Arthur Telling demand the reader pay their dues in mental labour and suspend dogmatic disbeliefs; their honest, a priori, and conversational style allows for a huge range of topics and tangents to be covered while still pulling towards the explicit aim of providing an overarching and inclusive text yearning to make sense of it all just like the rest of us."