This work is a narrative unraveling of a process of human trans­formation that interrupts the psyches propensity for creating the conditions for suffering. The self privileging of ego consciousness is posited as the origin of suffering. Relief from suffering is accomplished by bringing forward the content of the unconscious. The condition that allows the content of the unconscious to come forward is disrupting the boundary separating consciousness and the unconscious. As the boundary fails and ego consciousness is dethroned, unforeseen yet yearned for knowledge becomes available to...

Two Roads East is a story told along the road less travelled, a daughter's ultimatum forces Sophie Vella, a Washington human rights lawyer, to make a bold move which begins an unexpected journey to the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. She's no ordinary tourist when she joins eleven others on the Mountain Adventures' bus at Paro airport; they're planning trekking, she's planning a coincidental meeting with a man she swore twenty years ago she'd never talk to again. Steve Andrews is manager of Two Roads East, Bhutan's largest foreign aid project, and he has no way of knowing that Sophie is in the...