It was after reading this book that I found the path of Eckankar. Many ideas and beliefs that I had held all of my life were represented by Harold Klemp, and, for the first time, I was able to feel as if someone truly understood me and believed like I had. If you have found this book then it is for a reason. Read it and let your heart determine for you its own truth. No one else can do it for you.

Save your money on this book! The entire book of "Child in the Wilderness" is in this so called Autobiography (including the introduction). The rest of the book contains excerts from "Soul Travelers of the Far Country." There is nothing new here, and Klemp makes it very difficult to sort times, places, and people out. I think Klemp graduated from high school in 1960, and may have two or three brothers and a sister. Nothing is forth coming and piecing people and events together is difficult since he jumps from past to future often. This seems like a deliberate attempt to confuse people much as Twitchell did through his distortions of truth. In this year 2000 rewrite Klemp still expouses that Eckankar and the Mahanta are not only greater than ALL of the other religions of the world and their prophets and saviors, but also of their GOD (pgs.385-386)! The GOD of the other religions of the world resides on the Mental (4th) Plane while the Mahanta (Klemp) resides at a level of consciousness on the 14th plus Planes. However, the religion of Native Americans and of the "Penecostal movement" and other emotional or 'heart religions' reside on the Astral (2nd) Plane. The only new thing I saw was on page 455 where Klemp says, "Peddar Zaskq, like the Yavata..." Yavata refers to an Eck (Eckankar) Master teaching on the Inner Planes. Klemp goes against his own missionary teaching advice by not using "common language" with the public. There was no need to use this word. Anyway, Klemp has an opportunity to say something new and different, but goes to the past to recycle old dogma. This book is a fraud when it states that it is an "Autobiography!"