Hmmm. ;-) A little bit of cultural bias there, Nickhere? I agree with the prayer and meditation part, but you can also glean much useful spiritual information from other books such as: the Koran, the Bahgavad Gita, the Upanishads, the various Tibetan texts, Sufi writings, Taoist literature, Buddhist literature, the Bahai faith, books from a host of other religious traditions (probably all of them, in fact), and at least a few thousand other valuable spiritual books presently available by a host of modern writers, because enlightenment didn't begin and end 2,000 years ago, it still happens now, nor are God's inspirations limited to expression in only the Old and New Testaments.

If they were, it would truly be a world gone mad, in my opinion. Not that there isn't some valuable stuff in the Old and New Testaments. There is. But they are not the one and only source of "The Truth". Jesus did not instruct his followers to base their lives on the Old Testament...or on a bunch of further books that were going to be written after his death, called "the New Testament". He never once made any such prediction. If what Christians claim about the exclusivity of the Bible were true, he would have. His teachings were not dependent upon any written books, and would still be equally valid if no such books had ever been written at all.

But if those books are the be-all and end-all for you, that's fine for you. Maybe not for another.