B. STEVEN VERNEY
"This book captures the thrill and magic of the spiritual path and how things make more and more sense the bigger the picture gets."
— David Lynch, Filmmaker
"The Best of All Possible Worlds falls within the genre of philosophic novels like Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Millman's Way of The Peaceful Warrior – Those who enjoy philosophic discourse with their novels, or who are seeking a lucid introduction to Transcendental Meditation will enjoy this novel."
— Blue Ink Review
A spiritual, philosophical novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds begins in 1973 when Sam O’Connor, a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts meets and falls in love with Amy Sanders who has just finished her MFA at the university. As Sam begins to envision their life together, Amy tells him she’s leaving the following week to study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Switzerland in order to become a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation program.
Crestfallen, Sam resigns to spend part of the summer with his Irish Catholic family in Greenwich Village working at the bakery-café his parents operate and own. Within a week, he receives a call that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has invited him to join the course. He hastily leaves the village behind and embarks on a course that will alter his life forever.
