The spiritual adventure memoir of an award-winning television and documentary filmmaker, musician, devotional singer, Sanskrit chanter, webmaster, speaker, ashramite, philosopher, artist, cow milker, creator of the Night Lotus Website of free multimedia spiritual resources, and author of works including Secrets of Spiritual Happiness and Spirituality For Dummies. Includes access to a website with multimedia resources – videos, photos, audios, and links – based on specific paragraphs in the book.

Author Sharon Kumuda Janis was:

Brought up by Jewish atheist psychology-teachers

Took a three-month course in hypnosis at age seven (with one runaway subject)

Studied neuroscience at the University of Michigan

Lived for a decade of monastic life in the ashram from “Eat Pray Love”

Produced and edited hundreds of spiritual wisdom videos for the worldwide network of Siddha Yoga devotees

Experienced an authentic guru-disciple relationship, filled with blessings, challenges and spiritual epiphanies

Then moved from the ashram to Hollywood, where she:

Won local, national, and international awards for her television news work

Created the music video that was Simon Cowell’s first success in the music business

Helped Charlie Rose come up with the idea for his interview show

Hung out with Arnold Schwarzenegger

Spent two years helping to start Suze Orman’s public career (This memoir includes some of the untold story from Suze’s rise to fame that people taking her advice deserve to know)

Edited and associate-produced popular television shows, including “X-Men” and the “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers”

Then it was on to a reclusive artist’s life in Cardiff by the Sea, where the author:

Produced inspiring video documentaries

Created a website filled with free multimedia spiritual resources – www.nightlotus.com

Recorded devotional singing CDs, including “The Glorious Bhagavad Gita Sung in English” (for the first time)

Gave lectures and courses on many topics, including “Getting Your Spiritual Book Published Without Selling Your Soul” for writers conferences and the Learning Annex.

Wrote several books, including Spirituality For Dummies

And much more . . .

This is her story, told honestly and intimately, with the humor of remembering the cosmic joke, and the spiritual happiness of trusting in the ultimately beneficial nature of the universe. The intention of A Modern Quest for Eternal Truth is to uplift and bring greater meaning and a deeper appreciation of your own life.

“Inspired by deep guidance and inner listening, this book aims to bring readers to ‘a sense of wonder and respect for their own journey’ and a greater regard for others on their paths.”
– NAPRA ReVIEW

“A beautiful and poignant spiritual odyssey that is equally provocative and touching, informative and enlightening, humorous and heartbreaking.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce

“In a larger sense, this memoir is a dialogue between Indian spirituality and Western psychology. The question that Janis answers is: ‘Can a westerner come to know Indian spirituality and flourish in its depths, even when it is alien to western ways of knowing?’ She answers with a resounding ‘yes.'”
– Publishers Weekly

“It’s a good story, and for those of us who are interested in what exactly goes on in those ashrams, it’s hard to put down… Few writers so far have told the tale of what it is like to live and study, heart and soul, with the likes of Muktananda.”
– RALPH: Review of the Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities

“It is a book that is very difficult to put down—the kind that keeps you up at night beyond your bedtime.”
– 21st Century Books

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