it's 2008! when did that happen?

I’ve finished the book. And I’ll review it in sections. There will be some spoilers with regards to the very end, but they were things I knew before I read the book and it didn’t really change the way I felt about it. So, on to India. When the author is in America she discovers yoga, she went to a yoga place in the states and her brand of yoga (sidda) has an ashram (the term ashram is usually used to refer to an intentional community formed primarily for spiritual upliftment of its members, often headed by a religious leader or mystic.) somewhere in rural India. She spends 4 months in the ashram, doing yoga, meditating, chanting things in Sanskrit, meeting really cool people, and finding God. I’ve never been more jealous of anyone in my life. I mean come on, 4 months to do nothing but eat fantastic food (Bread! Pasta! Pizza!!) and then 4 months to do nothing but meditate. Does it get any better than that? I don’t think so. The only drawback I could see is the fact that it was frequently 100 degrees by like 10 in the morning. That doesn’t sound like fun to me. She says some really interesting things, and it’s really quite interesting to be on her journey with her. She’s honest about it being hard and about not feeling like she’s any good at meditating. And then when she talks about her breakthrough’s you really are happy for her, and, again, a bit jealous. There is one quick part at the end of the section where she says “Your job, then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help you move ever closer to divinity. The yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayrs and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship-just so long as those prayers are sincere”. I mean, hello!! The best challenge EVER. Ok, so then the author goes to Bali. She is on the hunt for a medicine man that she had met years earlier. I think I could have stopped reading this book after the India section and been happy. The Bali section didn’t do much for me. She falls in love and blah blah blah. There really was no point to this third part of the book I didn’t think, so I have nothing much to say about it. She meets some nice people, does some nice things, lays around. I felt like this part of the book just didn’t really have a point. Maybe if I wasn’t single I’d like it, but being that I am, it annoyed the shit out of me. Kinda like that freaking ‘bubbly’ song. Uuuuuggggggghhhhh. Makes me want to kick her. Not crinkle my nose.
Anyway. That’s all for now folks. I really do recommend the book, it was a fantastically fun read and the good part outweighed the irritating part. Happy 2008!