"A successful peek through many different lenses by a highly motivated truth seeker who is also a meticulous researcher and an excellent storyteller, able to bring to life not just the ideas of three remarkable individuals, but the individuals themselves."
Peter Magnani San Jose Mercury News "Vividly written, about an exceptionally interesting subject, and imbued with the kind of gravity and understanding only someone who's been there and back can understand."
Ellen Cushing East Bay Express "The religion journalist weaves his own memoir into the stories of three key figures in Western religion: the author of Brave New World, an Anglo-Irish mystic, and the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous."
Kristin Yinger Los Angeles Magazine "I congratulate Don for an honest exposure of his own remarkable story, wrapped in the amazing tale of these three great spirits from history."
Carl T. Hall Pacific Media Workers Guild "Lattin's intriguing assemblage of vignettes illustrates how much of the eruption of new spiritual ideas in 20th-century California can be traced to a surprisingly few key people and moments."
Cherie Ann Parker Shelf Awareness (2 Copies) "Right up until the end, this book felt like one of those fancy cocktails: different liquors occupying different layers, each with its own distinctive color... The book is about wending one's way in and out of intoxicating substances in a noble but messy effort to discover some universal truth." San Francisco Chronicle "The key figure in this 'blend of memoir and biography' is Lattin, whose narrative arc might be the strangest. He somehow balanced his religion reportage with a descent into cocaine addiction and alcoholism, and he sees this book as a crucial element in his ongoing sobriety... 'One of the things I learned from AA is that many of us drink in an effort to quench a religious thirst,' he writes. 'It's how we get some temporary relief from the spiritual emptiness.'" Kirkus Reviews