Imaginez...
Vous êtes en vacances à Bali et, peu de temps avant votre retour, vous consultez un vieux guérisseur. Sans raison particulière, juste parce que sa grande réputation vous a donné envie de le rencontrer, au cas où...
Son diagnostic est formel: vous êtes en bonne santé, mais vous n'êtes pas heureux.
Porteur d'une sagesse infinie, ce vieil homme semble vous connaître mieux que vous-même. L'éclairage très particulier qu'il apporte à votre vécu va vous entraîner dans l'aventure la plus captivante qui soit : celle de la découverte de soi. Les expériences dans lesquelles il vous conduit vont bouleverser votre vie, en vous donnant les clés d'une existence à la hauteur de vos rêves.

"L'Homme Qui Voulait Etre Heureux" is the story of an American teacher who takes his vacation in Bali and meets up with shaman/sage/healer Samtyang. He is not sure why he feels the urge to meet Samtyang, but has to tell him something after coming so far to meet him. So he confides that he is not a happy person, offering some rather lame reasons as to why he isn't happy. He only has a few days left of his vacation, but meets with Samtyang almost every day and gains insights into why people do what they do and what is preventing him from being happy.

This book was written two years after Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love" in which she too meets up with a Balinese sage. So it's kind of a "copycat" book in that respect. It can also be compared to "The Celestine Prophecy" in that it conveys consciousness-raising ideas in a fictional format. These ideas are nothing new or mind-blowing, but it has been fairly popular in France, and I see its popularity as all to the good. Sometimes people just need to be reminded of what they already know.

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