Finding Your Way To Heaven Without a Smartphone
by Joe Obidiegwu
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Pub Date Aug 24 2015 | Archive Date Oct 26 2015
Description
In efforts to understand the human being, our history, and our future, the story takes the reader through three different continents, gleaning cultural well-being and malaise of different races.
The book highlights the common bond between all human races, while exploring reasons for the perceived outer differences our modern world hurtles forward, driven as it is by powerful technological engines of change, characterized by an obsessive and often idolatrous worship of intelligence, ruminative men and women all around the world ponder in the silence of their soul the fate of humanity. In the West, depression, suicide, incomprehensible mass shootings and myriad psychological disorders litter our cultural landscape, while abject poverty ravage developing nations. We have become highly intelligent beings that cannot solve our problems, yet we inhabit a natural world created out of wisdom and much of that wisdom is not reflected in our thoughts and lifestyle .
Modern man's obsession with intelligence and the material world has left him a stranger to spiritual things and wisdom. Consequently, humanity is left vulnerable to inexplicable and undiagnosed suffering. in an attempt to diagnose what ails modern man, this book presents a convincing and thought-provoking argument that we have forgotten who we are, and in so doing, have built a world terribly out of order with our divine nature. By walking the reader through my Nigerian upbringing and subsequent arrival in the West, I reveal some timeless wisdom that I believe can serve as a cure for some of the things that trouble us today. This inimitable book lights a path directing us again to who we truly are. It is a timely and deft clarion call to all of us.
About the Author - Joe Obidiegwu was born in 1967, in the vibrant town of Onitsha, located in southeastern Nigeria. At age seventeen, he left Nigeria for America where he attended Franklin Pierce University, and Virginia Tech for graduate and post-graduate studies respectively. He currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he teaches a philosophy based class at a Montessori school
A Note From the Publisher
Keywords: Inimitable, Interesting, Insightful, Autobiographical, Philosophical, Spiritual, Cultural, Thought-Provoking, Inspiring, Life-Changing
Advance Praise
Review from Don Burness, Ph.D., Professor of Literature at Franklin Pierce College
Author of Echoes of the Sunbird and Wanasema
Finding Your Way to Heaven Without a Smartphone is a mixture of autobiography, cultural inquiry and philosophy. Joseph Obidiegwu, an Igbo from Nigeria, has lived on three continents. He has the necessary perspective and wisdom to look at the world's masquerade from different angles. There is no romanticization of traditional African village life, nor is there blind acceptance of the hectic to and fro of modern life on planet Smartphone.
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| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781622879809 |
| PRICE | $5.99 (USD) |
Average rating from 5 members
Featured Reviews
Sharon M, Reviewer
Actual Rating: 3.85
This was a quick read. Although, I had to stop yesterday because of my midterms. When I picked it up again, I could not put it down. This is also my first Christian non-fiction book. I am glad I read it. I enjoyed reading the experiences that Joe Obidiegwu went through. It talked about Christianity and faith. I thought it was inspirational read. Overall, a must read for Christians.
John E, Reviewer
A good philosophical comparison of theologies
By John English Saturday, October 31, 2015
Format: eBook
The copy I have is a pre-release copy, which as I understand it has no strings attached.
Finding Your Way To Heaven Without a Smartphone by Joe Obidiegwu relates to us a belief system of a man influenced by various cultures.
The tribe he was reared in (Ibo) gave basic beliefs, which he compares with Western philosophy and beliefs. The way this story is told is enjoyable to read about. It is kind of a philosophical look at the growth of faith in the author through life in differing cultures.
There is a kind of merging of cultures and thought; he writes from the view of a simple culture but from within a very modern western culture. The melding of thought and basic value of cultures is very interesting; our fast paced living could use some simplifying.
I like the book; and I recommend it highly. I believe I’d like the physical book even more in order to see the illustrations better; but the eBook gets the story told. This book is well worth the cost; I believe it would be money well spent. Mine was a prerelease eBook copy; I plan on buying the hard copy as soon as funds are available.
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