Harmony and the Bhagavad-Gita: Lessons From a Life-Changing Move to the Wilderness

"A marvelous job... an inspirational memoir and a pleasant reminder that there is a spiritual side to our existence." 
-- Five-Star Review, Susan Sewell for Readers' Favorite

After a lifetime of metaphysical study and practice, a journalist joins adiverse community of joyful spiritual pioneers in a remote BritishColumbia valley. There she, her family, and her neighbors explore thedown-to-earth application of the Gita's profound and beautifulteachings. Along with comic and cosmic challenges, these daringindividuals harvest the Gita's rich and relevant guidance -- guidancesuited for any time, place, or circumstance.
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"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonical philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."
-- Henry David Thoreau, American poet, philosopher, and naturalist 

"Bhagavad-Gita is one of the most beautiful and profound texts of world literature." 
-- Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and diplomat; Nobel Prize in Literature

"That the spiritual man need not be a recluse, that union with the divine Life may be achieved and maintained in the midst of worldly affairs,that the obstacles to that union lie not outside us but within us --such is the central lesson of the Bhagavad-gita." 
-- Annie Besant, British socialist, theosophist, activist, writer, and orator

"Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day." 
-- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi