The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust

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The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust Author Explains... 
August 2, 2011
Religion Dispatches

Brook Wilensky-Lanford talks about Eden and Iraq, how the search for Paradise has been a masculine adventure, and about the hazards of perfection.



...It's at least as much a principle of psychology as of theology...Look hard enough, and you'll find yourself finding something. So beware.

...Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden introduces us to a series of men from the last couple of centuries who set out to find the place where we all came from, alluded to in the strange verses of Genesis. Many of them in fact did—or thought or felt they did. Paradise Lust is fair warning for anyone out to discover ultimate things...another religious search—for proof of the existence of God—might have in common.