HEADING TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT

Within two years of leaving the "fishing business" I found that I had managed to follow Hans Sebbelov’s instructions. I had learned to meditate—my instructor was Kenny Edwards who was much better known at the time as lead guitarist for Linda Ronstadt’s band the Stone Ponies. I had moved across country having secured a simple job working on a loading dock for a computer modem company. My other duty was to drive the CEO back and forth to the airport in a new Lincoln Towncar—it turned out I was his favorite driver, probably because I could make the trip faster than anyone else in the company.

As soon as I had saved enough money I quit my job, broke up with my half-Japanese girlfriend and headed off to a small seaside resort village in Spain where Maharishi had rented a hotel and hundreds of private homes (it was off-season) and was holding a teacher training course for over a thousand meditators from around the world. I arrived eager to learn whatever Maharishi had to teach. I was open and eager and about to embark on my journey to enlightenment.