The Backwards Buddhist: My Introduction to Dzogchen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439259511)

Settled in midcoast Maine, Barbara Fleming has found home after a life filled with moves and resettlement. Mother of two and wife for over 36 years, government employee, public librarian, art teacher, artist, student and seeker, graduate of the College of William and Mary with a highly prized degree in Medieval English History, graduate of Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts with an MLS degree and drop out from the MBA program at SUNY Binghamton after finding it basically incompatible with the concept of ethical behavior, she chose to share some of the accumulated tales and rites of passage marking a long and varied career marked with consistent intellectual pursuits interspersed with periods of work including everything from apple picking along side of full-time migrant workers for whom she gained boundless respect and gratitude to working in the Pentagon as well as the public libraries of diverse populations, to building her own business, to teaching the self taught skill of painting. Upon graduating from motherhood, she turned her attention to self-development and became a student of eastern philosophy. It is from this vantage point that she chose to write this particular book. The wealth of experience gained in the diversity of her experiences brings her character to life in these pages. Humor and insight along with a continuing desire to explore new limits makes this perhaps the first of a series of very personal adventure tales.