Rude Awakening: Perils, Pitfalls, and Hard Truths of the Spiritual Path
For all the books on spiritual practice, few have explored the real difficulties involved in becoming enlightened or even just sane through a psychospiritual process. P.T. Mistlberger provides a much needed road-map to the basics of spiritual myopia, idealism, inflation, and narcissism, and in so doing serves as a good spiritual therapist and coach. --Richard Grossinger,author ofPlanet MedicineandThe Bardo of Waking Life, and publisher of North Atlantic BooksAn insightful distillation of decades of hard-won spiritual experience. There are few seekers, I suspect, who will not resonate with its message and benefit from its advice.--Richard Smoley, author ofThe Dice Game of Shiva, andInner ChristianityAn insightful distillation of decades of hard-won spiritual experience. There are few seekers, I suspect, who will not resonate with its message and benefit from its advice (Richard Smoley, Author, The Dice Game of Shiva and Inner Christianity)  P.T. Mistlberger has a unique gift in that he writes with such integrity and authenticity that he is able to cut through all the spiritual fallacies, forcing us to question the very motives that underlie our desire for liberation and truth. Rarely have I read such a well written, brutally honest account of the spiritual path (Paula Marvelly, Author, Women of Wisdom)