A Modern Quest For Eternal Truth

A Life-Changing Spiritual Adventure Memoir

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

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The purpose of this memoir is to awaken readers
to new ways of looking at their own lives.

This entertaining new spiritual adventure memoir takes place in the same ashram from the book and upcoming movie Eat, Pray, Love, where the author lives and serves for a decade, before moving from the ashram to Hollywood for an award-winning career as editor and producer of television shows, where she helps to start the careers of Simon Cowell, Charlie Rose, and Suze Orman (with some of Suze's untold story that people trusting and following her relationship advice deserve to know). Amidst a new set of arising challenges, the author moves to Cardiff by the Sea for a peaceful life of creative service, where she writes books, including Spirituality For Dummies and Secrets of Spiritual Happiness, produces uplifting documentaries, and creates a website with hundreds of pages of free multimedia spiritual resources.

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

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

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

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

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A Modern Quest For Eternal Truth

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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,” while producing and editing hundreds of spiritual wisdom videos for the worldwide network of 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 . . .