"When it comes to spirituality and life, Turak is as authentic as it gets. Wonderful read!"
—
Michael Keaton
, actor
Not Less Than Everything: One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment
is the inspirational true story of how author, August Turak overcame depression and meaningless despair through a daring quest for life’s ultimate meaning and purpose.
A search for transcendence.
As a troubled young college student in 1971, Turak was seized by the idea that the mystical experience various religious traditions call Enlightenment, Satori, Nirvana, Samadhi, the Unio Mystica, or Cosmic Consciousness not only exists, but might be attainable by him.
This sparked a life altering quest as Turak became in turn,…
…the
first student
of a rough-hewn,
hillbilly Zen master
;
protégé
of the founder of the
IBM Executive School
client
of a mystical psychologist doing government funded research with
LSD
…a
member
of the original team that launched
MTV
: Music Television;
…a successful hi-tech
entrepreneur
and even a frequent
monastic guest
at a Trappist monastery.
It was this same spiritual roller coaster that dropped him off twenty-five years later in a tiny room of a rundown motel in Baltimore, Maryland deeply depressed, fearing for his sanity, and with nowhere else to turn. Or so it only seemed…
Through a series of true, wildly entertaining spiritual adventures and practical life lessons, Turak offers his readers an accessible,
universal blueprint
for a life overflowing with joy, peace, higher purpose and above all gratitude.