{"id":499,"date":"2009-12-10T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theteatable.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2014-08-28T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:30:54","slug":"new-book-the-spirituality-of-tea-by-jason-witt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/new-book-the-spirituality-of-tea-by-jason-witt\/ ","title":{"rendered":"New book, &#8220;The Spirituality of Tea&#8221; by Jason Witt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-500 alignright\" title=\"spirituality-cover\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.theteatable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/spirituality-cover.jpg\" alt=\"spirituality-cover\" width=\"126\" height=\"200\" \/>Here is an excerpt from Jason Witt&#8217;s new book, <em>The Spirituality of Tea<\/em>, which is now available on Amazon.com:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tea is God\u2019s Blessing for your mind, body, and spirit. The three are inseparable and none is most important; tea is God\u2019s Gift to your whole person.\u00a0 It will first give you Peace of Mind, reducing the stress that could kill you at a young age, and grant you better focus.<\/p>\n<p>Then tea keeps you young as the Fountain of Youth. Stress would otherwise age you, along with a number of other factors, ending with the major diseases. Tea is known to potentially prevent all that.\u00a0 And it is spiritual virtue to come to God like a child (who doesn\u2019t age.) It\u2019s worthy of Paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Finally tea is revealed as the Tree of Life. It\u2019s the healing Food of Heaven, now available here on earth for these current generations. And pu-erh tea shows itself enlightening as a particularly spiritual tea, a blessing upon those who enjoy it faithfully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jason Witt\u2026has God as his Significant Other.<br \/>\nJason\u2026is an expert on the Spirituality of Tea (with a Western perspective.)<br \/>\nhe\u2026likes tea-themed music of all eras.<br \/>\n\u2026is a good listener.<br \/>\n\u2026eats a low-calorie diet.<br \/>\n\u2026has overcome a lot of addictions, including to wine and women.<br \/>\n\u2026doesn&#8217;t ever want to own a car again or buy his own house (so he&#8217;s also green.)<br \/>\n\u2026lives the simple life without gathering many possessions.<br \/>\n\u2026nevertheless drinks a lot of tea.<br \/>\n\u2026now resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.<\/p>\n<p>We thank Jason for reading and commenting on our blog and wish him the best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an excerpt from Jason Witt&#8217;s new book, The Spirituality of Tea, which is now available on Amazon.com: &#8220;Tea is God\u2019s Blessing for your mind, body, and spirit. The three are inseparable and none is most important; tea is God\u2019s Gift to your whole person.\u00a0 It will first give you Peace of Mind, reducing&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[73,74,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theteatable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}