TC Gopalakrishnan received his doctoral degree in Coastal Engineering from the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA in 1978. He served on the research and teaching faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, the North Carolina State University and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait. Aside from his professional involvements, he was interested in the philosophic issues of life for the last forty years or so. This led him to the messages of Ramana Maharishi, Lao Tzu, J Krishnamurthy, UG Krishnamurthy, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Eckhart Tolle, Marcus Aurelius and similar Masters. In Quest of the Deeper Self is the outcome of his reflections on those and his wish to share the outcome with others. Gopalakrishnan is a member of the International Association for Near Death Studies. He lives in Kodaikanal, a hill town in south India, with his wife Banumathy who also received her doctoral degree from the North Carolina State University, in Organic Chemistry. Their recent involvements were with the Kodaikanal International School as teaching staff in the subjects of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Now they are both retired and currently involved in developing a fruit farm at a village 20 km from their residence. They are associated with CLOAAT, an organic farm and learning center for appropriate technology near Kodaikanal. They have a daughter and son who are both married and settled.
