Steven Robinson, a kindergarten teacher in Paraparaumu, New Zealand shares his journey of finding the spiritual path, as well as several stories of encounters with remarkable strangers. In Berlin – after he'd struggled to learn German as a foreign language – one of these strangers helped him to find his voice again,
Elisa mentions Waldorf education and Rudolph Steiner: https://www.waldorfeducation.org/waldorf-education
and Montessori: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
Steven mentions
Madame Blavatsky : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky
Jiddu Krishnamurti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti
Swami Advayananda: https://www.cvv.ac.in/management/swami-advayananda
Theosophical Society: https://www.ts-adyar.org/
Satya Sai Baba: https://www.sathyasai.org/
Paramhansa Yogananda: https://yogananda.org/
Autobiography of a Yogi (free PDF): https://www.freespiritualebooks.com/autobiography-of-a-yogi.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw8_qRBhCXARIsAE2AtRbi3Q32xnftBZ8D4HvAVWWF_ygcNJlNIkeR8449NvBQsjfgopDYEtEaAozfEALw_wcB
Maitreya the World Teacher: https://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_main.htm
Benjamin Creme: https://www.share-international.org/background/bcreme/bc_main.htm
the Master D.K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djwal_Khul
The Boy and the Brothers (book) by Maud McCarthy / Omananda Puri – free pdf download: https://web.archive.org/web/20030804095946/http://emergencenetwork.info/omananda/
Books by Benjamin Creme, including several that can be read for free online: https://www.share-international.org/background/printed/books.htm