Larry Jordan, author of The Way

Larry Jordan

Larry Jordan spent 25 years in investment banking, assisting companies, governments, and non-profit agencies in issuing over $10 billion of municipal bonds for capital projects and cash flows.

In 2011, he quit his job and sold his house to spend his life in service. He drove veterans to the VA clinic, prepared 1,000 tax returns for low-income families, taught school in Africa, and volunteered for the American Red Cross.

Over the last 20 years, he traveled around the world, read over 1,000 books about spirituality, and had some powerful experiences in several spiritual traditions, including baking in a sweat lodge, chanting to Shiva, meditating in a zendo, and whirling with the dervishes.

His first book, The Way: Meaningful Spirituality for a Modern World was a Silver winner in the 2024 Nautilus Book Awards.

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The Way: Meaningful Spirituality for a Modern World

The Way integrates religion and science and reconciles Eastern and Western worldviews, agreeing with the mystics and the scientists that everyone is related, and everything is connected.

The Way: Meaningful Spirituality for a Modern World

Aug 06, 2022 by Larry Jordan

I just completed a 50,000-word manuscript called "The Way: Meaningful Spirituality for a Modern World."

Beyond the Surface podcast

Apr 18, 2025 by Larry Jordan

I appeared on the Beyond the Surface podcast with my friend, Sam Sellers. Sam is a Queer Registered Therapist, living and working in the Gundungarra Land (Goulburn, NSW, Australia.) She provides trauma-informed support for survivors of religious trauma.

Chop Wood. Carry Water. Buy Stock. Sell Stocks.

Apr 17, 2025 by Larry Jordan

The Zen patriarchs encourage us to manage attachment, craving and ignorance.

Spirituality and the Stock Market

Apr 10, 2025 by Larry Jordan

Buddhist Ken Wilber compares spirituality to the stock market. Wilber says that, over the long haul, there is a slow upward trend. Over the short haul, there can be considerable pain and suffering.

What If Project podcast

Mar 31, 2025 by Larry Jordan

I appeared on the What If Project podcast with my friend, Glenn Siepert. Glenn really liked "The Way" and totally understood its point. We had an interesting conversation about holding beliefs loosely.