Chasing the Avatar is now available in bookstores!
Have you ever searched for all the answers to life and never found them? Have you ever
had a demanding thirst that was never satiated? Have you ever looked for that great high never to attain it? That was me,
all my life until finally I found the answer. I found the elixir of knowledge, the high of all highs. I found a guru! Quickly,
I came to believe, like so many Hindus, that she was an avatar—a human incarnation—of the violent, voraciously
destructive goddess Kali. So, what did I do? I did what any hungry, thirsty, reckless seeker would do: I dropped all I was
doing, everything I had and even who I was in order to chase after the avatar.
Maya is a young woman
with the brightest, most promising prospects in the world—a doctoral student at Harvard University, teaching and advising
undergraduates; yet, she’s drowning in intense discontent. In the midst of her anguish, she meets Cha Ma, a Hindu guru.
Immediately, she believes that Cha Ma is an avatar—a human incarnation—of the goddess Kali, the most malevolent
and destructive of all Hindu deities. Spellbound, Maya runs off to India to live in the guru’s ashram as a Hindu. Her
choice hurls her parents, Paul and Marie, into emotional, physical, and spiritual battles far beyond their wildest imaginations,
for they must fight for their daughter’s life and soul, as she teeters on the edge of her very existence.
Spirits supernaturally collide as they battle for the lives and souls of Maya, her parents, and the people attached to them.
As Maya seeks the truth, she finds that dabbling in things not of God makes way for the insidiousness and slipperiness
of evil and the danger of sliding deeper and deeper into darkness.
