Ezekiel's Awakening Into Light

Take an eye-opening journey through the trials of spiritual enlightenment with Ezekiel's Awakening Into Light by Aubrey Wharton, a thoughtful meditation on following your own unique path. Ezekiel left his life and love behind to become a devotee of an ashram on the other side of the world, but it didn't take long before he struck out again on his own, to the great chagrin and rebuke of his brother monks. Leaving his two-man transcendental band behind, Ezekiel embarked on a "journey to nowhere" - more specifically, to Florida, abandoning the life of pure asceticism and brotherhood for solitude and study on his own terms. However, even after decades of isolation, his past came to find him, in the form of his 35-year-old son, Maurice. Ezekiel's awakening is sparked by this unexpected visit, from a son desperate to deliver on a promise to his mother. Ezekiel returns to Guyana to reconnect with Myra, the woman he had left behind thirty-six years earlier, but three decades apart have changed them both in innumerable ways, and while the initial passion of their reunion is bright and authentic, dark resentments lie just over the horizon. The titular character's revelations then come in disjointed stages throughout the book, as he renegotiates his relationship with love, family, and duty. Though Ezekiel had spent decades focused on himself and seeking truth, the real test of his wisdom doesn't come until he must face his past, and all that he had abandoned during his quest for enlightenment.