Journey to Mandalam: Adventures in Consciousness - Mandalam Adventures, #1

Jeremy has no idea what he's getting into when he stops at a small cafe in a little town in Oregon near the Pacific coast. But he decides to stay. After all, it seems like such a nice little town. Perhaps if he had gone outside and looked up into the night sky, he would've seen a starship from the planet Tandalar which was presently encountering an overpowering Presence while testing out a new space drive.
Inside that ship lay several beings shattered by their experience, slowly picking themselves up from the floor of the craft. Meanwhile. a middle-aged eccentric in the same small town in southern Oregon suddenly feels the need for some company to help explore a huge anomaly near the coast of Oregon. Before long, chance and serendipity bring five people and a group of star travelers together for adventures into other dimensions both inner and outer where they come into contact with various other beings, all in pursuit of their own unique destinies.
Adventures and insights abound around speculations on who they are, how they and the cosmos came to be, and why it chose them and not others to go through the travels and travails of time that unexpectedly wanders across differing dimensions of space and consciousness, both of which, it turns out can sometimes be manipulated. In the end both star travelers and humans are transformed in various ways, solving old problems and opening up new horizons with the promise of further adventure, controversy and discovery.
This is the first of (thus far) two books in this series. 376 pages.