The Return to Everything

by Gary Young

Here is a story of adventure, love, heartbreak and finally supernatural encounters. This is a moving account of an extraordinary life. It speaks of intense inquiry into life or death questions and then of courage and survival in the terrible blood and mud of Vietnam. It tells the story of family life in a virgin rainforest paradise, of encounters with extraterrestrials in the Colorado mountain skies and of meetings with remarkable men in the high desert of Arizona. From the tropical beaches of Australia to the cornfields of Wisconsin, miraculous and mystical encounters unfold one by one, exposing eye-opening insights for all... A chance encounter with an odd candidate for a babysitter changed everything. It opened a door into what has been called, “beyond the beyond.” Gary tells us what it was like to go past “the near death experience” and on into the Ocean of Love. A tale that does not merely entertain, it is an illuminating probe into some of man's oldest and most meaningful questions. Your life will be changed.

172 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 19, 2013

About the author

Gary Young is a poet, artist, printer, and educator. His numerous awards include recognition from the Poetry Society of America—the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award (2013), the Shelley Memorial Award (2009), the William Carlos Williams Award (2003), and the Lyric Poem Award (2001). Gary has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, and his print work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Getty Center for the Arts, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He teaches Creative Writing, and is the Director of the Cowell Press at the University of California, Santa Cruz.