- Preface
- The Blessed Golden State
- The Mead Sisters
- Welcoming the New Century in Los Angeles
- Work begins in Pasadena
- Four weeks with the Meads: The Swami’s Californian family
- The World Teacher sets foot in Northern California
- At Turk Street, San Francisco
- His Many Moods
- Recasting Lives – Ida Ansell
- Recasting Lives: Tom and Edith Allan
- Intensely Touching Lives – Frank Rhodehamel and Some Other Blessed Ones
- Swami Vivekananda Arrives in Alameda (East Bay)
- A fortnight in the Redwoods of Northern California
- Last Fortnight in California