Path Of Lightning

Author And Poet Barbara Schmitz Offers A Heartful, Funny, And Deeply Moving Spiritual Autobiography That Brings The Reader Along On Each Stage Of Her Fervent Inner Quest For Mystical Experience. Beginning With A Catholic Girlhood In Nebraska, She Graduates To An Unlikely Apprenticeship With Allen Ginsberg At The Naropa Institute; A Dedicated Transcendental Meditation Practice; And Finally To Thirty Years Of Joys And Struggles With A Sufi Teacher (shahabuddin Less) With Whom She Travels To Bali, Turkey, India, Kashmir, And The Holy Land. Incisive As Lightning-the Meaning Of Her Sufi Name, Vajra-her Questions And Yearning Are Our Own, And She Doesnt Let God, Her Teacher, Or Herself Off The Hook.