James Swartz
James Swartz was born in 1941 in Butte, Montana. After graduating from the University of California and moving to Waikiki, Hawaii, to start a business, he began his spiritual quest at age twenty-six, when he experienced what he calls a “life-changing epiphany” at the local Post Office, which he recounts in his book Mystic By Default, led him to study with Swami Chinmayananda. Today, he and his wife Sundari teach traditional Vedanta around the world, and he has written two books on the subject.
