The Pearl of Great Price: The Spiritual Journey of a New Age Seeker to the Light of Christ and the Eastern Orthodox Church

I am a native San Franciscan currently living in Sacramento, CA. I have been married 30 plus years to Gregory Hughes, my spiritual buddy and the love of my life. Due to health issues in my early 20s I began a spiritual journey. I was seeking inner peace, for I felt my soul and body were connected. If my soul could heal, perhaps so could my body. I was a lapsed Catholic who studied Eastern religions. I had a guru and Tibetan lama, practiced prayer and fasting, and meditation techniques. I studied metaphysics and the life of the soul, which I later taught to others. Yet, after twenty-five years of seeking, I was depressed and spiritually unfulfilled. Thanks to my husband and the grace of God my spiritual journey ultimately allowed me to convert to Christianity, find God and open my heart newly to Jesus Christ through the study and practice of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. I am now quite involved in the study and spiritual practices of the early Christian Church. I am the author of two published Orthodox books, The Pearl of Great Price and In Christ I am a New Creation, Part I. I am currently working on my third Orthodox book in this series about faith and a book about my saint, St. Veronica.