High in the Andes

About the Book

High in the Andes is a spiritual adventure novel charting the fantastic events that happen to its main character, Narada. On an archeological tour through the ruins of Peru he stumbles across a secret and mysterious attraction. Beyond his wildest amazement, Narada is actually drawn back to his former Incan colleagues of the priestly class with whom he lived 450 years ago. Therein begins an extraordinary process of self-discovery, reflection, and ancient memory recall as Narada receives the esoteric teachings of this highly evolved group of spiritual masters; including discussions on forgiveness, energy, healing, meditation, reincarnation, and more. Readers will recognize in Narada’s story the struggles common to many seekers on the path of spiritual development. They will identify with him as he strives to understand the teachings, and find their own innate wisdom reflected back.

About the Author

William M. Kaufman has been an educator throughout his adult life. A student of spiritual philosophy and transpersonal psychology, Mr. Kaufman has also studied many of the world’s major religious traditions, and has been a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation since 1977. He is a spiritual counselor, as well as a student and proponent of alternative forms of healing. William is a Reiki Master, and a practitioner of Mari-El and Reiki energy healing. He has traveled extensively throughout the world, and has lived, studied and worked in Sweden, Brazil and Japan. He is fluent in Portuguese, and formerly fluent in Swedish, having completed his junior college year in Sweden. These international experiences helped increase his awareness of the diversity of cultural and healing practices that abound. Mr. Kaufman has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, a master’s and doctorate in Comparative Education from The University of Chicago, and a master’s in counseling from West Virginia University. He is a licensed, practicing psychotherapist, a certified hypnotherapist, and also does substance abuse counseling. In addition, he brings to his practice past life regression therapy, having completed Dr. Brian Weiss’ professional training course. Dr. Kaufman has published in the Journal of Research in Education and has delivered papers at several professional conferences. He is the recipient of a grant from the Mellon Foundation to deliver a paper at a world education conference held in Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Kaufman is also the author of THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF ILLNESS, for which he received two generous grants from The Lifebridge Foundation in support of its preparation and completion; AN EXPLORATION OF TRUTH, A Tapestry of Fact and Fiction; and THAT WHICH FLOWS AS ONE, A Struggle to Love. They are all available through AuthorHouse, and other book distributors. For more information about the author and these books, please visit his web site: www.WilliamMKaufman.com.