THE BOOKS
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On Beyond Yoga
IFrustrated with the superficiality of contemporary yoga, three yoga students join their “half-enlightened” teacher on a two week, magical-mystical tour through India's spiritual capitals hoping to find answers.
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Egon is a romantic, happy go lucky, Bavarian enraptured by the exotic and material aspects of modern-day yoga. He is ecstatic when his teacher invites him to an Indian yoga retreat hoping it will be an extension of the spiritual shopping-spree he started with his first yoga class eight years hence.
Franz, a successful, German businessman has a horde of physical disorders caused by his consuming desire to excel in the corporate world of materialism. After experiencing a radical reversal of pain through yoga, Franz decides the yoga retreat might offer answers to a few of the deeper questions that have plagued him since he started his mid-life crisis.
Lisette is a beautiful, Dutch dancer turned yoga teacher who also decided to join the three men on a trip to three of India's holiest cities.
Soon after their arrival, Egon discovers a growing erotic attraction to Franz as Franz develops a passionate feeling of love for Lisette. Lisette only has eyes for her mentor and celibate yoga teacher, Joshua, who has an ongoing hate/love relationship with God he hopes to reconcile in India.
This “love square” irons itself out on their journey through the sacred cities of Rishikesh, the current yoga capital of the world; Varanasi, the oldest inhabited city of earth; and Tiruvannamalai, a holy city at the seat of Arunachala, one of India's most sacred mountains.
Through a series of philosophical discourses steeped in the Vedic principles of “A Course in Miracles” and filtered through the sutras of Patanjali, the ancient sage of yoga, Joshua leads his three students through variety of strange and mystical experiences, extraordinary encounters and profound revelations that leaves each of them wondering about the true nature of reality.
Seeking Oz
Manfred enjoyed a life full of sparkle and verve… until he was five, when he started to wonder if his decision to reincarnate as a blissful little boy might have been a mistake.
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From the day he was born, Mani enjoyed the unconditional love and acceptance he believed were his divine rights. A rude awakening occurred at the age of five when he danced into the living room in drag to impress his mother with his newest rendition of Chicki-Chicki-Boom-Chick. The horrified reaction of the visitor she was entertaining unveils a mean truth to little Mani: playacting your innate being isn't enough to secure the adoration and approval of the world around you.
The child psychiatrist is one in a long line therapists, gurus and spiritual advisors who try to help Mani become something he isn't, so he can find the happiness he once took for granted.
At 18 he turns his back on the hick town of his youth and heads for the land of soymilk and sex (Southern California), hoping to find recognition and acceptance. Surrounded by a world of spiritual materialism he enters a bazaar of belief systems and philosophies to find a Wizard who will show him the way back to the Garden of fulfillment. His quest then takes him to a consciousness expanding seminar in Bavaria, Germany, a spiritual retreat in a dark and foreboding castle in the foothills of the Austrian Alps, a healing workshop conducted by a dubious Shaman in the Tuscany and a “meeting of the masters” high in the outer limits of the Tyrol, before he finds the final answer.
A high-camp self-help book that takes the reader through a world filled with pseudo gurus, new-age tricksters, and spiritual materialism. It is the forerunner of Eric Brown's first novel, “On Beyond Yoga.”
