My life in Jewish renewal : a memoir / Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi ; with Edward Hoffman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Origins -- A Viennese boyhood -- Austria under Hitler -- Diamond-cutting and hasidim in Antwerp -- War : French internment camps -- Revelations in Marseilles -- Voyage to America -- Encountering the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe -- The making of a hasid -- A fledgling hasidic rabbi : outreach in New Haven -- Raising the klippot in Rochester, New York -- My own pulpit in Fall River, Massachussetts -- Caribbean travels : voodoo and mitzvah missions -- Widening horizons : from New Bedford to Boston University -- Jewish innovation in Manitoba -- Adventures with Catholic monasticism -- My first trip to the Holy Land -- Qumran, USA : my plan for Jewish communality -- Hasidic counseling : new explorations -- Psychedelics with Timothy Leary -- My friend Thomas Merton and the ecumenical quest -- Walks with Abraham Maslow -- Abraham Heschel : my mentor and friend -- Leaving Chabad : the fallout from my Washington, DC lecture -- The San Francisco counter-culture and neo-hasidism -- Moving to Philadelphia : the founding of P'nai Or -- Epilogue : whither Jewish renewal? -- Gerald Heard, my "Irish rebbe" -- Rabbi Heschel Matt -- Breakthroughs in Milwaukee -- The Dalai Lama -- Unfulfilled projects.