During the shooting of eat love and pray, Julia was in Nainital. At that time she converted to Hinduism. Very little information is available on the details
I suspect she was strongly influenced by the divine presence of Neem Karoli Baba and Siddhi Ma. There was a miracle of sort and many of her questions were answered.
Conversion of faith is not as helpful as conversion of personality and attitude
Even more helpful is change of consciousness
There are hurdles after change in faith. Some close friends are supportive while spouses may use it as a reason for animosity or rejection. During these times – your faith in God is being tested. Faith in neem karoli baba or the divine presence is tested
It is very difficult to get through those tests without help from a very advanced spiritual person. Her quest at that time should have been to find a person who can explain it – rather than relying on the opinion of “famous” so called intellectual spiritual people who leave and create more doubts instead of generating faith, further miracles and progress. Miracles from God should occur daily or more than that.
There is no doubt in my mind – the depth of the spirituality in the Hindu literature is unrivaled. It is extremely detailed but left as one of the most ignorant thought process by intention. All the books written MUST have a guru who can explain the subtleties.
My blogs explain a few. That too very superficially.
If someone explained all of it – then all war and conflicts with all religion, all science would stop. Morgan Freeman, PBS, etc went about the wrong way.
The world is not ready it. An individual isolated soul may be ready here and there but who is going to direct them here ?
Bhavin