"...[This book] about some of the Course's basic principles as I understand them and relate them to various issues that affect our daily lives...[It] is about the practice of love, as a strength and not a weakness, as a daily answer to the problems that confront us..."--P. xvi.

"Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known. Such is his desire for her that he overturns his whole life--his disillusioned merchant-banker's life--and leaves everything behind, not caring that his lover is of no fixed address, nor that his search for her will take him to the beating heart of New Ageism in northern California. Each of his fellow seekers is in hot pursuit of that elusive something (happiness?), and in their eccentric...

Ashton is a small town. A skeptical reporter and a prayerful pastor begin to compare notes, then find themselves fighting a hideous New Age plot to subjugate the townspeople and eventually the entire human race.