{"product_id":"almost-home-dharma-social-change-and-the-power-of-love-paperback","title":"Almost Home: Dharma, Social Change, and the Power of Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMirabai Bush\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis memoir tracks the author's remarkable life across several tumultuous decades, from NASA to an ashram in India and finally to the foundational role she played in the establishment of Eastern spiritual traditions in North America. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, Mirabai is among the most influential people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the 1970s. Her life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in secular modern culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In 1972,\" Mirabai Bush writes, \"I was a 30-year-old American traveling in India, with the smell of incense in my hair and mantras repeating in my ears. Back then, if you had told me that I would someday be training employees of corporate America to apply contemplative practices to help them become more successful, I would have said you'd been standing too long in India's hot noonday sun.\" Yet as soon as Mirabai Bush returned to the U.S. in 1973, she started a company called Illuminations and was featured alongside a young Steve Jobs in \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore recently, she helped create Google's wildly popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Mirabai Bush is called in to work with educators and judges and social activists and soldiers. Her odyssey from India to now tells a defining narrative of our time, and it's not just a story of tools that help us be more successful. It's a rediscovery and reclaiming of contemplation as a vital practice in our modern lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMirabai is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director until 2008. Under her direction, The Center introduced contemplative practices into education, law, business, environment leadership, the military, technology companies, and activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has been teaching workshops and courses on meditation and contemplative practice in life and work for many years. She co-developed the curriculum for Search Inside Yourself for Google, the first program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence; it has been attended by tens of thousands of Google employees. A founding board member of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization, she directed the Seva Guatemala Project, supporting sustainable agriculture and integrated community development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is the author, with Ram Dass, of \u003ci\u003eWalking Each Other Home: Conversations on \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoving and Dying and Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service\u003c\/i\u003e. She is co-author with Daniel Barbezat of \u003ci\u003eContemplative Practices in Higher Education: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePowerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eContemplation \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNation: How Ancient Practices Are Changing the Way We Live.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was Chairperson of Love Serve Remember Foundation and has been a board member of Lions Roar, Omega Institute, Seva Foundation, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Military Fitness Institute, and the Dalai Lama Fellows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 410\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772741988600,"sku":"9798993613208","price":31.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/VBj0Lzeeu9798993613208.webp?v=1780401047","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/almost-home-dharma-social-change-and-the-power-of-love-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}