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This novel, set in Amherst, Massachusetts, tells the story of a promising philosophy PHD student, Sam O’Connor, who takes a life-changing journey to Switzerland to attend an advanced ten-week curse on Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Sam is challenged by Maharishi to create and teach a class on Being which integrates Eastern and Western philosophies. The subsequent success of Sam’s lectures at Amherst College propels him onto the national stage, but midway through a book tour tragedy strikes, and in its wake Sam fades quickly into obscurity and nine years of deep introspection. Sam has a chance encounter with Julian Driscoll, a philosophy major at Amherst College, and they begin meeting at a local café to discuss enlightenment, consciousness, and the causes of suffering. Julian coaxes Sam to once again confront his destiny.

Steve began Transcendental Meditation in 1974. Impressed by his experiences and the knowledge of spiritual evolution as described by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Steve became a teacher of the TM program in 1976. He attended MIU in Fairfield, Iowa, graduating with a BA in Philosophy in 1981. He met his future wife, Kay, at the university. They were married in 1982. Over the next 24 years Steve and Kay started and ran three different businesses while raising their two sons in New Salem, MA. They currently live in Wellfleet, MA. This is his first novel.