Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
Introduction 1
Part 1 Angry Bears
Chapter 1 Spirit of the Bear 5
Chapter 2 Hitched and Launched 9
Chapter 3 Realization and Refusal 13
Chapter 4 Lightening the Load 19
Chapter 5 The Unraveling Begins 23
Chapter 6 Breathing Lessons 31
Chapter 7 Sick Leave 37
Chapter 8 Feeding the Bears 43
Chapter 9 Needle in a Haystack 49
Chapter 10 Radical Sabbatical 53
Chapter 11 Slam-Dunk Diagnosis 61
Part 2 Heeding the Call
Chapter 12 Throwing Bones 69
Chapter 13 Ecstatic Encounters 83
Chapter 14 Doin' the Mamba 89
Chapter 15 Alice Arrives 97
Chapter 16 Hugging Horses 103
Chapter 17 The Healing Stones 109
Chapter 18 Family Healing 115
Chapter 19 Everything Is Alive 123
Chapter 20 Soul Retrieval 127
Chapter 21 Sunglasses and Brass Knuckles 131
Chapter 22 Emergency Sabbatical 139
Chapter 23 India Calling 149
Chapter 24 Laid by the Universe 157
Chapter 25 Saint Teresa 165
Chapter 26 Into the Shadows 173
Chapter 27 Hellbent on Honey 179
Part 3 India
Chapter 28 Agra 185
Chapter 29 Mela-Mobile 193
Chapter 30 Light Karmic Rinse 203
Chapter 31 Troubled 213
Chapter 32 Kumbh Mela Redux 221
Chapter 33 The River 227
Chapter 34 The Grove and the Jungle 235
Chapter 35 Temples in the Rain 247
Part 4 Return Home
Chapter 36 The Way Back 259
Chapter 37 Mollie 267
Chapter 38 Back to the River 277
Chapter 39 Into the Woods-Then Home 281
Acknowledgments 287
