About the Author -- A note from the Publisher

It was 1984, I had recently returned to Los Angeles after a three year hiatus in Seattle. After arriving back, I was informed that my ex-roommate and friend Shiva Yogi was dying of cancer. As soon as I could I paid him a visit to convey my condolences regarding his condition. To my surprise, although he was practically bedridden and living in a small apartment, he was quite peaceful and seemed to radiate an inner glow. He told me that he was writing a book and wanted me to publish it. I was taken aback because I had no idea why he chose me to give the manuscript to, as I had no previous interest in publishing nor had any idea what it involved. He ignored my protestations and concerns and informed me that a mutual friend of ours was typing it as the words for the book came to him.

He explained that when he went into what appeared to be an apparent coma, he was having an experience of the ‘other side’ and then upon regaining consciousness, he would relay the information he had received. He said that the book was writing itself and that it would be about life and the afterlife and that the title would be, “Do We Meet Again?”

I reminisced that Shiva Yogi had been a successful business man. He was an American of Scandinavian descent who had owned his own advertising firm, with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City. In 1984 he had been retired for many years. He was in his late seventies and had been involved in a Yoga group for the past ten years. He relished Eastern thought, studying the teachings of a Yoga master, who gave him his spiritual name.

A few weeks before his death in the fall of that year, Shiva Yogi handed the manuscript to me with that look of, ‘you know what to do’. I willingly yet somewhat anxiously accepted it.

I did have it edited at that time and then placed it in an old briefcase. Over the years I moved several times. The briefcase came out of one closet into another. It sat in the last closet for eight years. Then in late 2001, my wife’s Buddhist teacher, H.H. Buddha Maitreya, recommended to all his students that they clean out ‘old stuff’ as a symbolic gesture for letting go of past events and people. While cleaning out that storage closet we found the manuscript in the old briefcase I had it stored in. I thought I had lost the contents of that briefcase somewhere along the way.

Lo and behold, we had just become publishers the previous year, self publishing a book my wife and I co-authored entitled, “Couple’s Journey”. After rereading the manuscript and seeing that “Do We Meet Again?” seemed even more pertinent than in 1984, we decided to publish it.

Somehow all this came together with such exquisite timing. Besides our being set up to publish, the world had changed since September 2001, and we felt that “Do We Meet Again?”, which gives a more loving, heartfelt understanding of life and death, could be particularly helpful to many people who are now trying to get a deeper sense of life as well as obtain a better understanding of the purpose of their own lives.

Each of us has to die. It’s natural, inevitable, and final to this particular incarnation. Why not contemplate this unavoidable phenomenon? “Do We Meet Again?” invites you to do just that in a moving, thought provoking manner.

As we mature, dealing openly and directly with our own mortality is a great service to our own self.

So read on and watch and feel what happens.

The Publisher

Book Description -->

Purchase Do We Meet Again -->