'A beguiling exploration of what contemporary spiritual practices might offer to a world that's
lost its religion' Dr Sharon Blackie author of If Women Rose Rooted Abi Millar is looking for
something. She grew up in an evangelical church but after she lost her faith she found
herself searching for spirituality in other places. Torn between the logical part of her brain
and the part that secretly believes in magic and in the wake of a great loss she wondered
whether her crisis of faith was part of a larger story: at a time when more and more people in
the Western world are moving away from organised religion what does spirituality look like?
The Spirituality Gap follows Abi as she receives a shamanic healing drinks ayuahuasca delves
into astrology experiences an awakening in a lake and attends an atheist church. Written with
great warmth curiosity and humour it explores our post-religious world from the perspective
of someone who is neither a 'spiritual but not religious' hippie nor an angry atheist.
Throughout she asks: how can we embrace ritual in our own lives even if we are wary of
religion?
