Reddit reviews The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami

India is definitely the place for that! I am born in the US but visited India in my college years when I was getting interested in spirituality. I am blessed that I had some strong experiences in the US and had a few in India. You can take that as confirmation that you are on the right path. You are right, they will just happen when you least expect it. Sometimes I get experiences like deja-vu, but I just take it as a confirmation that I am where I am supposed to be. I had a few amazing ones that really pushed me into spiritual life as well.

When I was getting interested in spirituality I was a big fan of Paramahamsa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. A classic from earlier in this century. This is maybe off topic, but when I was visiting Kurukshetra I had a sadhu stop me on the road and wanted to show me things and then asked for money. He actually changed a rock into some sugar candy in front of me. I thought "OK whatever, he did some slight of hand". Then he had me pick up a rock in my own hand, close his hand over mine, then chanted a mantra and it turned into sugar rock candy within my closed fist. I ate it. I had read about those things in the Paramahamsa Yogananda book and it was happening. He then asked for money and wasn't happy with how much I gave. He opened his shirt and showed me scars and said he had been doing a lot of austerities!

An interesting experience. I eventually read more of Shrila Prabhupada's books and settled in as a Hare Krishna devotee. Shrila Prabhupada and even Paramahamsa Yogananda explained that those sort of mystic powers are not the end goal of self-realization.

This is also a great book, this person is still alive and has written an amazing tale of his travels from the US around the world in search of God. How he ends up in Himalayas living amongst the yogis and then meets his guru.
The Journey Home

The authors site: http://www.thejourneyhomebook.com/

I would like to suggest a book, written by someone who had similar views when he started his path. It's called "Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami". The author was born in 1951, and when he was around 18, he left home and started roaming the world, looking for truth. He was raised in a Jewish family, connected with Catholicism while in Europe, explored Islam while in the Middle East, and eventually made his way over land to India, where he examined various traditions there.

I don't want to give away any thing else in the book! It's a great read about a physical and spiritual journey. The author is now a prominent Gaudiya Vaishnava guru. His perspective, though, is that religion isn't about being a Hindu, Christian, Jew, or anything else. It's about learning to see God in everyone's heart.

I hope you receive all blessings on your own journey.