When the Student is Ready, the Master Appears    
 
This engaging book explores many intriguing questions about the unfolding of enlightened consciousness.
How does expanding awareness affect identity?
Might there be some common ground between the spiritual goals of enlightenment and salvation?
Do Eastern spiritual teachers and Western psychologists mean the same thing by the word "ego?"
Why do so many Eastern masters emphasize the need to transcend or dissolve the boundaries of ego, while most Western psychologists consider "ego dissolution" to be virtually synonymous with insanity?
How might such divergent perspectives be reconciled?

Excerpting from her personal journal, the author draws the reader into her own present moment,
 sharing everything through the intimate lens of experience and self-inquiry. Her candid story
offers a fresh and revealing perpsective on the process of growth toward self-realization.
Many of the book's transformational insights emerge in the context of the author's soulful
relationship with her mentor - the remarkable Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - as he guides her
 through sensitive and vulnerable transitions of inner awakening.

Betty Ruth Krueger,  writing under the pen name of Ananda Mouse, 
is a meditation teacher and 35-year veteran of the quest for liberation.
After graduating from the Honors College of Valparaiso University 
with an interdisciplinary degree in sociology, psychology, and the humanities,
she abandoned her plans to become a psychotherapist in order to pursue an unconventional career
 in the field of meditation and self-development, under the guidance of traditional Indian spiritual teachers.

"The writing is exquisite, and the anecdotes are utterly charming;
but what makes this book so powerful is the author's ability to bring us along on her journey toward self-realization
while sharing some of the most profound concepts about expanding awareness, in such a clear and practical way.
Reading this book is like taking Enlightenment 101 with a brilliant professor who also happens to have a grand sense of humor."
--Debra Halperin Poneman, Founder, Yes to Success Seminars, Inc., Amazon best-selling author, Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul

"This charming chronicle of one woman's adventurous quest for enlightenment is at times touching and hilarious.
It is a candid and heartfelt inquiry that effortlessly takes you from the sublime to the ridiculous (and back again) in a heartbeat."
--Ceci Balmer, RN, Yoga and Meditation instructor, Editor, God Loves Fun, Archive Specialist - Art of Living Foundation.

"This book provides a fascinating glimpse into one person's experience interacting with an extraordinary spiritual master -
a literate contribution to the timely, and timeless, discussion of enlightenment."
--Carol Kline, #1 New York Times best selling author of five books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series