The Golden Frog

More than just a novel, ever-increasing insights into the profound mysteries of life are revealed as the reader reflects on the words and experiences of the characters.

A captivating adventure about life’s mysteries, The Golden Frog follows two friends through their lives as they pursue the deepest understandings of life and existence. Bruce becomes a psychotherapist trapped in the web of conditioning, while Nathaniel ventures to India, emerging as a revolutionary thinker. As Nathaniel awakens to the wisdom deeply rooted within him, mysterious events unfold. Through insightful and heartfelt interactions, he challenges all notions of reality. Witnessing Nathaniel's remarkable journey from ordinary to extraordinary, Bruce is changed forever.

The Golden Frog, winner of The 2004 Chelson Award for Literature, is more than just a novel. It is based upon the authentic spiritual experiences of the author. The reflective reader will find that it unravels spiritual mysteries which have baffled humanity throughout the ages.

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Behind the Story of The Golden Frog

I remember a summer morning when I was a small child. The fresh dew, moist and cool beneath my feet, gently covered the backyard. The warmth of the sun's softly diffused rays foretold of another hot summer day. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of something magical, something that left its enduring impression upon me. It was the shimmer of a golden frog leaping within the hedges. On all fours, I pursued it, hoping for another look. For a brief instant, there it was again, leaping between the branches. The next instant - gone.

I didn't understand why the experience touched me so deeply. But my enchantment with it has always remained. The unfathomable mysteries of existence are my passion - the common theme stringing all the events of my life together, like pearls on a thread.

As an adult, I mentioned my golden frog experience to a saint I was visiting in India. He simply smiled, nodded, and said, "In time, you will discover its significance for yourself." The look on his face told me he knew something, but wouldn't tell. After writing The Golden Frog, in remembering that interaction, I can't shake the feeling that somehow he knew about the book.

How did this book come into being? I can view it in different ways. In one sense, it is the expression of the essence of all my life experiences. From another perspective, it was a heartfelt flow seeded by a moment of insight into the golden frog.

Ever since childhood, my passion has been to fathom life's deepest mysteries. It led me from philosophy to physics and even a monastery in India. It has left me humbled. The mysteries of life cannot be comprehended through mere information. It is all too subtle and sublime. The Golden Frog is an adventure about the place we feel inside us that can never be grasped, but can at times be touched. It is a story about every person's final frontier - that which lies within. The Magic is inside you.

-       Michael Mamas 9/04