New Memoir Reveals the Dynamic Experience of Living in the Ashram from the "Eat Pray Love" Book and Movie

Online, August 7, 2010 (Newswire.com) - "A Modern Quest for Eternal Truth" gives a rare view into the author's ten years living a colorful ashram life with the gurus from the book and movie "Eat Pray Love," before bringing the magic of this spiritual life to Hollywood for an award-winning television and film career, where the author helps to start or uplevel the careers of many, including Simon Cowell, Charlie Rose, and Suze Orman. A new set of arising challenges brings the author to Cardiff by the Sea for a life of creative service, where she writes books, produces uplifting documentaries, records devotional singing CDs, and creates a website with hundreds of pages of free multimedia spiritual resources. Her story is told honestly and intimately, with humor, insights, and life lessons intended to uplift the reader's life.

Along with the 400-page book, "A Modern Quest For Eternal Truth" gives access to a multimedia online component featuring videos, music, photos and more to enhance your experience and enjoyment of each chapter (http://www.amodernquest.com).

Reviews of this memoir include:

A beautiful and poignant spiritual odyssey that is equally provocative and touching, informative and enlightening, humorous and heartbreaking.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

In a larger sense, this memoir is a dialogue between Indian spirituality and Western psychology. The question that Janis answers is: "Can a westerner come to know Indian spirituality and flourish in its depths, even when it is alien to western ways of knowing?'" She answers with a resounding "yes."
- Publishers Weekly

It's a good story, and for those of us who are interested in what exactly goes on in those ashrams, it's hard to put down... Few writers so far have told the tale of what it is like to live and study, heart and soul, with the likes of Muktananda.
- RALPH: Review of the Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities

It is a book that is very difficult to put down-the kind that keeps you up at night beyond your bedtime.
- 21st Century Books

About the Author

Sharon Janis is the author of "Spirituality For Dummies" and "Secrets of Spiritual Happiness," and is an internationally renowned devotional singer of Sanskrit, Christian, and Buddhist chants, including her enticing rendition of the Guru Gita chant sung in "Eat Pray Love," which is playable online at http://www.guru-gita.com as part of Sharon's popular website of free multimedia spiritual resources. Sharon (also known by the Sanskrit name Kumuda) lived a decade of the ashram life described in the "pray" section of Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love," before heading to Hollywood for an award-winning television and film career, editing and producing many popular television shows, including Hard Copy, X-Men, Candid Camera, and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. In the mid 1990's, Sharon then moved to Cardiff by the Sea for a time of solitude and writing, with the purpose of sharing the valuable teachings she'd been given in a unique and entertaining way that would help uplift the world. Visit her website at http://www.nightlotus.com.