| Author: | Steven J. Shupe | ISBN: | 9781301419715 |
| Publisher: | Steven J. Shupe | Publication: | October 26, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Steven J. Shupe |
| ISBN: | 9781301419715 |
| Publisher: | Steven J. Shupe |
| Publication: | October 26, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
"The Now or Never" is much like the fabled elephant probed by five blind sages who each perceive it in a different manner.
For some readers, the book will be an entertaining adventure populated by colorful characters, with India’s rich heritage and natural beauty providing an attractive backdrop to tale unfolding.
Others, while reading, will glimpse the light and shadow in a psyche truthfully exposed through a man’s twisting spiritual path, juxtaposed against a fictional tale in which characters spring from his scattered mind to frolic in both conflict and harmony.
Many readers who are tired of dry, spiritually-correct writings, may be refreshed by the abundant humor and gentle sacrilege that are used to delve into spiritual insight as well as to enhance the story line laced with intrigue, manipulation, kindness, murder, and perhaps, redemption.
The plot centers around a man who awakens each morning with a fresh case of amnesia, a predicament soothed only slightly by lush garden setting and the rumbling Ganges River outside his isolated ashram hut. He does his best to slowly piece together has past and present, while his future attracts a cast of characters eager to take advantage of his mental handicap.
Shri Shri Cy Bubba, a guru of questionable repute who caters to ‘the serious seeker or the gullible wealthy’, is the primary bump in our forgetful protagonist’s road. But getting shaken up by a trickster like Cy Bubba has it’s spiritual advantages, as does running into Alberta who thinks it a hoot to provide a series of…'innovative', shall we say, wake-up calls to a confused and pliable man with no memory.
Also, the protagonist periodically discovers pieces of his spiritual autobiography dropped along the path that were written just prior to his plunge into amnesia. They tell the true story of a man having lost his comfortable life, as a respectable engineer and lawyer, to a mind-bending spiritual awakening in the 1990’s filled with inter-dimensional spirit guides, psychic encounters, and reality shifts that sent him spinning off into the fast lane of spiritual highs and shadowy lows.
As the book draws to a close with fiction and fact intertwining to weave a fitting climax to the story, the protagonist/author realizes that he has actually been caught in a deeper, lifelong cycle of forgetfulness than the one recounted in the novel.
This amnesia of the soul sends the author off on a true-life search for his higher mind and to recollect why our spirits fell into human embodiment in a convoluted earth world. Three subsequent books in "The Nyxall Chronicles" follow this journey through soulful loss and exquisite discovery that climax in 2015 in the Peruvian Andes. The Chronicles may be read and enjoyed in any order since each contains a unique storyline, message, and resolution.
"The Now or Never" is much like the fabled elephant probed by five blind sages who each perceive it in a different manner.
For some readers, the book will be an entertaining adventure populated by colorful characters, with India’s rich heritage and natural beauty providing an attractive backdrop to tale unfolding.
Others, while reading, will glimpse the light and shadow in a psyche truthfully exposed through a man’s twisting spiritual path, juxtaposed against a fictional tale in which characters spring from his scattered mind to frolic in both conflict and harmony.
Many readers who are tired of dry, spiritually-correct writings, may be refreshed by the abundant humor and gentle sacrilege that are used to delve into spiritual insight as well as to enhance the story line laced with intrigue, manipulation, kindness, murder, and perhaps, redemption.
The plot centers around a man who awakens each morning with a fresh case of amnesia, a predicament soothed only slightly by lush garden setting and the rumbling Ganges River outside his isolated ashram hut. He does his best to slowly piece together has past and present, while his future attracts a cast of characters eager to take advantage of his mental handicap.
Shri Shri Cy Bubba, a guru of questionable repute who caters to ‘the serious seeker or the gullible wealthy’, is the primary bump in our forgetful protagonist’s road. But getting shaken up by a trickster like Cy Bubba has it’s spiritual advantages, as does running into Alberta who thinks it a hoot to provide a series of…'innovative', shall we say, wake-up calls to a confused and pliable man with no memory.
Also, the protagonist periodically discovers pieces of his spiritual autobiography dropped along the path that were written just prior to his plunge into amnesia. They tell the true story of a man having lost his comfortable life, as a respectable engineer and lawyer, to a mind-bending spiritual awakening in the 1990’s filled with inter-dimensional spirit guides, psychic encounters, and reality shifts that sent him spinning off into the fast lane of spiritual highs and shadowy lows.
As the book draws to a close with fiction and fact intertwining to weave a fitting climax to the story, the protagonist/author realizes that he has actually been caught in a deeper, lifelong cycle of forgetfulness than the one recounted in the novel.
This amnesia of the soul sends the author off on a true-life search for his higher mind and to recollect why our spirits fell into human embodiment in a convoluted earth world. Three subsequent books in "The Nyxall Chronicles" follow this journey through soulful loss and exquisite discovery that climax in 2015 in the Peruvian Andes. The Chronicles may be read and enjoyed in any order since each contains a unique storyline, message, and resolution.
