Starting the search for knowledge

Now, apart from my friend Sasha who pointed me to Buddhism, I have no idea who to turn to to discuss "these things": to my knowledge, nobody I know knows anything about it!

I find another ally nonetheless: my new friend Fabienne from work. I share with her my newfound excitement and I can see that she totally relates! She knows nothing about Buddhism; her thing is yoga. I start understanding that this "thing" I am excited about is "spirituality", and that yoga and Buddhism are two "spiritual paths", i.e. methods to probe into the great mystery of life… For now, I am very thirsty for knowledge, i.e. books.

I ask her if she has "spiritual" books to recommend. She recommends Hands of Light from Barbara Ann Brennan, a book about Energy Healing, a subject touched upon in The Celestine Prophecy (so… it really exists!) and Thought Power, a manual from Swami Sivananda, the founder of her school of yoga. I get them both right away. She also invites me to do a yoga retreat with her, and I accept!