Publisher's Synopsis
In Sleeping with Lions, the author takes you on a spiritual safari that started in her difficult childhood with a mentally ill mother. One of her earliest memories is of wanting to know, what is love? When she was eight years old, she had a vision of a beautiful man with what she thought was a towel on his head. He became her Guardian Angel, her inner voice. Little did she know that the answer to her question, as told in Sleeping with Lions, was right there in that vision. Twenty years later, she saw the wildly popular film called Born Free. The story of how Joy and George Adamson rehabilitated their pet lioness Elsa and returned her to a wild life in Kenya spoke to the author of an unconditional, letting-go kind of love, the kind of love for which she had been searching. She wrote a fan letter to the Adamsons, and Joy replied. Leaving her one-of-a-kind job as Executive Secretary to a top Hollywood motion picture talent agent, after corresponding with Joy for two years, she set out for Africa. Far from finding love at Joy's camp, where she worked as her assistant for six months, the author encountered a woman whose mood swings and volatility were eerily reminiscent of her own mother's mental illness. In the end, Africa, Joy, and George Adamson, and their cheetahs and lions, served as a bridge for what became the real purpose of the author's journey. After Joy, it took her to Nairobi where she spent three months with the Veterinarians, Drs. Sue and Tony Harthoorn. Through them she traveled to an ashram in India. In that rarified atmosphere in the foothills of the Himalayas, her quest for unconditional love and what it means to be truly free ended when she came face-to-face with her Guardian Angel, and he became her Guru.
