{"product_id":"9781936671113","title":"Path of Lightning","description":"Author and poet Barbara Schmitz offers a heartful, funny, and deeply moving \"spiritual autobiography\" that brings the reader along on each stage of her fervent inner quest for mystical experience.\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a Catholic girlhood in Nebraska, she graduates to an unlikely apprenticeship with Allen Ginsberg at the Naropa Institute; a dedicated transcendental meditation practice; and finally to thirty years of joys and struggles with a Sufi teacher (Shahabuddin Less) with whom she travels to Bali, Turkey, India, Kashmir, and the Holy Land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncisive as lightning-the meaning of her Sufi name, Vajra-her questions and yearning are our own, and she doesn't let God, her teacher, or herself off the hook.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pinyon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062959915248,"sku":"9781936671113","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936671113_p0.jpg?v=1763658756","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936671113","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}