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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience,\u201d wrote the poet Emily Dickinson. Anne shares her difficult journey of leaving a fundamentalist religion as well as insights from her whirlwind year of experimenting with two dozen spiritual practices\u2014from singing to solitude to going to a witch camp and heading out on a pilgrimage\u2014and how they taught her to live more attentively and authentically in the world. All of us are on a spiritual journey yet so often we neglect this essential aspect of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Bokma is an award-winning journalist and author of the award-winning memoir, My Year of Living Spiritually: One Woman’s Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life, published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2019. She is also the founder and host of Hamilton’s popular 6-Minute Memoir live storytelling event and online writing workshop series. She is a member of the First Unitarian Church in Hamilton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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