The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age

**Abi Millar** is a journalist and author living in London. She studied English at Cambridge University and science journalism at City University London, and has written for outlets including Patient, Netdoctor, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, New Statesman and Vice. She is also a yoga teacher who has long been fascinated by the intersection of critical thinking and spirituality. *The Spirituality Gap* is her first book.

Abi 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? Abi receives a shamanic healing, drinks ayuahuasca, delves into astrology, experiences an awakening in a lake, and attends an atheist church. She explores our post-religious world from the perspective of someone who is neither an ‘overtly spiritual hippie, nor an angry atheist. Throughout, she asks: how?

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