Berkeley, CA

Dan Millman's alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley is where he shines as a world-class gymnast, meets and marries his wife Linda, and joins Joseph as a student of a service-station mechanic/spiritual guru, Socrates.

Honolulu, HI

Dan Millman's stop-over point when returning home from India, Honolulu becomes the beginning point of his spiritual quest. In an out-of-the-way motel, he remembers his teacher Socrates saying that when he is ready, he will meet a banker in Hawaii who is a shaman. Dan begins a systematic search of the 22 banks in Hawaii's biggest city on the main island of Oahu, growing ever more frustrated and disheartened. After being evicted from one, he sits desolately on the sidewalk and is cheered by an elderly lady, Ruth Johnson. She invites him to her suburban house, and as he heads back to the motel, slips him instructions for...