Ramana Maharshi to the West through his books A Search in Secret India and The Secret Path. One day—sitting with Ramana Maharshi—Brunton had an experience which Steve Taylor names "an experience of genuine enlightenment which changed him forever". Brunton describes it in the following way: Brunton was in India during World War II, as a guest of the Maharaja of Mysore, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV. He dedicated his book The Quest of the Overself to the Maharaja and when the Maharaja died in 1940, he was present at his funeral. Brunton commented on Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian independence movement: In the 1940s and 1950s, Brunton occasionally stayed as a guest, for a few weeks at a time, about six months total, with the parents of controversial American author and former psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson. In 1956, Brunton decided that a third world war was imminent and the Massons moved to Montevideo, since this location was considered safe. From Uruguay, Masson went with Brunton's encouragement to study Sanskrit at Harvard. Brunton himself did not move to South America, instead spending some time living in New Zealand. In 1993, Masson wrote a critical account of Brunton titled My Father's Guru: A Journey Through Spirituality and Disillusion. In the 1950s, Brunton retired from publishing books and devoted himself to writing essays and notes. Upon his death in 1981 in Vevey, Switzerland, it was noted that in the period since the last published book in 1952, he had rendered about 20,000 pages of philosophical writing. A longtime friend of Brunton's, philosopher Anthony Damiani, founded Wisdom's Goldenrod Center for Philosophic Studies in 1972. Swedish publisher Robert Larson helped to start Larson Publications (USA) which completed the publication of the 16-volume set of The Notebooks of Paul Brunton in 1988. Brunton's son Kenneth Hurst helped form the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation which continues to publish and archive Paul Brunton's literary legacy. Bibliography Books Are You Upward Bound with William G. Fern (1931) A Search in Secret India (1934) The Secret Path (1935) A Search in Secret Egypt (1936) A Message from Arunachala (1936) A Hermit in the Himalayas (1936) The Quest of the Overself (1937) Indian Philosophy and Modern Culture (1939) The Inner Reality (1939) [published in the US as Discover Yourself, same year] The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga (1941) Wisdom of the Overself (1943) Spiritual Crisis of Man (1952) Miscellaneous Brunton, Paul. 1975. "A Living