This book is a search through time. The author departs from the many "how to" manuals of successful living and instead delves into various ancient documents that together tell a compelling story of life. It is an epic that he skillfully shortens and retells as a personal journey of discovery. Taking the old sources seriously as worthwhile literature, he avoids both the overly-religious use of these documents as well as their easy dismissal by skeptical modern science. The result is a book written in a popular style, an enjoyable and relevant chronicle of "the fascinating flow of life as the...

"The story, not the technique" - In order to travel down The Long Flowing River, the author frankly assesses some inadequacies of science and religion, and goes a different way by exploring an ancient epic story. Here is a contemporary spiritual search that is paradoxically as old as the hills, about personal meaning and yet not about the author's own biography. As he says in the Preface, his search "had to be less subjective and much broader in scope.... not just a private matter as there were some major issues involved." The book questions why some of the best in religion and spirituality,...

"The story, not the technique" - In order to travel down The Long Flowing River, the author frankly assesses some inadequacies of science and religion, and goes a different way by exploring an ancient epic story. Here is a contemporary spiritual search that is paradoxically as old as the hills, about personal meaning and yet not about the author's own biography. As he says in the Preface, his search "had to be less subjective and much broader in scope.... not just a private matter as there were some major issues involved." The book questions why some of the best in religion and spirituality,...