“Wonderful and entertaining read with lots of humor about a subject that is usually treated much too seriously. In the process of entertaining, he also manages to impart wisdom he has gathered on his journey. This is definitely a book worth reading.”
“Chances are, the spirituality you seek will not be found inside these pages, but after reading this book you will throw away all your preconceived notions about spirituality. Mark Johnson illuminates the ridiculous and divine in this outrageous tale of the self's ascent and descent, through both decent and indecent experiences, the profound, profane and mundane stuff that reads like an episode of GOD: This Is Your Life. It just so happens to be Mark's life, too. Beware, be aware -- this book may change your life. Welcome to the Far Side of Spirituality.”
“I loved this book. Mark is a straight shoot-from-the-hip guy who has lived through the modern spiritual revolution of the last fifty years. It's both funny and educational.
The ultimate message is one I resonate with: if you are not having FUN on your path, whatever it is, you are an overly serious stick-in-the-mud who, while getting their tough lessons in Earth Life, has missed the whole point of learning to be a Divinely Playful Human.”
“I thoroughly enjoyed reading Mark Johnson's book. This is a light hearted, good natured and fun read. Scattered here and there are keys to the kingdom of 'Now.' He also shows us, with all its difficulties, how to have fun with life, with ourselves and those we meet on the way. Bravo!”
Join Mark on his forty-year spiritual odyssey with some of the most fascinating spiritual teachers of the last half-century.
His travels take him from the mountains of Pennsylvania to exotic temples in China and eventually to the wild and dangerous hills of Malibu California.
Mark chronicles his ten-year training in an ashram in Florida, his year with a famous Zen Roshi in California and his intense, eight year apprenticeship to a powerful Daoist Wizard from China.
Written from the perspective of a self-proclaimed enlightened being, who insists that enlightenment and nature are both overrated.