Dear Friends,

A Modern Quest For  Eternal Truth

A Multimedia Memoir

A 400-page Book with Access to Video, Audio, Photos,
and other Files that Relate to Specific Paragraphs in the Text

By the author of Spirituality For Dummies
and Secrets of Spiritual Happiness

An Honest and Fearless Spiritual Adventure Memoir

The 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.

“A Modern Quest For Eternal Truth shares stories and lessons from my eclectic life, carefully crafted to be of maximum benefit and entertainment to the reader. Even though this is a memoir, you'll hopefully experience that it is more about you than about me."

 

By Sharon Kumuda Janis,
Author of Spirituality For Dummies

“Spirituality For Dummies is a Mecca for those who are sincerely seeking the genuine meaning and practice of spirituality.  Sharon Janis fuses mystical insights drawn from the east/west approaches, resulting in a volume that opens the heart, exhilarates the mind, and inflames the soul.  No matter upon which rung of the spiritual ladder you now stand, expect to be catapulted to the next level of awareness through practice of the wisdom-offerings in this scripture of Truth.

                          — Michael Bernard Beckwith

CLICK HERE to read the Table of Contents and Prologue

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A Modern Quest For Eternal Truth
By Sharon Kumuda Janis
July 2010

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)


• 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 . . .