What motivated you to become a writer?
After 18 months of travel, I ended up on an island in Indonesia called Gilli Air. I realized I had to tell the story. I began to write if you could call it that. It took years to develop with some excellent advice and editing for my writing to evolve. There has been so much to learn, and one of the biggest obstacles I have discovered is all of the conflicting advice about how to write and edit. It’s a vast gray area.
Some of the events in the book are frankly pretty hard to believe. Didn't you exaggerate……….just a little?
What occurred in the Himalayas took me a long time to accept. They were way out of the possibilities in Western thinking. Later, senior monks in Thailand happily validated the incidents. Historically, in Asia, especially during the Buddha era, incidences such as those that occurred with me were commonplace. But using models of quantum physics, seemingly beyond belief events can readily occur beyond linear explanation. All I knew is that I had to get the story out for others, knowing it wasn't about me, but what is possible. We picked highlights for the book, but there were many, many, more stories to be told, including the last five years.
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