See-Shells (or, The Shellshock Redemption): A Novel of Enlightenment

Ah, there you are.You’ve found it at last.You may tell yourself you are only curious, but everything in your life has led you precisely to this moment. Open this book if you like. Just do not pretend you were not warned.At first, See-Shells (or, The Shellshock Redemption): A Novel of Enlightenment may appear to gather a collection of unattached stories: different genres, different times, different places, different people, even different dimensions. But the pieces refuse to stay separate. Each chapter opens like a shell. Each shell belongs to one long story. And the deeper you go, the harder it becomes to believe the disjointedness was ever accidental.You can approach this book as speculative fiction, as spiritual literature, or as an experiment set up for you by your future self. However you name it, expect to feel lost at first. Expect to recognize yourself in places you did not plan to. Expect the separate pieces to grow less separate as you go.Most of us suspect, if we are honest, that we are very good at lying to ourselves and very poor at escaping the consequences. See-Shells takes that suspicion and builds a novel out of it.Some books take you to other worlds so you can escape the one you know. This book does something less comfortable. It leaves you on a beach full of shells and asks you to pick them up one by one, only to discover some disturbing aspect of yourself inside, again and again.Find the story within the stories. See the connections? The repetitions? See how the whole thing starts to betray itself?Ferret out the truth for yourself in all our lies upon lies.Drawing insight from Western and Eastern spiritual traditions and modern metaphysical thought, this novel plays with the boundary between redemption and enlightenment, not as rival doctrines but as two angles on the moment when you finally stop defending the stories that are quietly ruining you.It does not propose a system, a secret technique, or a list of reassuring steps. It does not give you easier stories. It shows you what your stories have been doing to you.A metaphysical novel of awakening structured as an initiation, See-Shells speaks to readers willing to be baffled, occasionally offended, and perhaps gladdened in ways they did not expect.And when you reach the last page, do not be surprised if you feel as if someone who knows you very well has just helped you remove your own blindfold.If you would like a safer book, there are many. If you would like one written as if someone has actually been watching how humanity behaves and at last tells the truth with a crooked smile, you have found it at last.Keep going.~See-Shells contains over 25 black-and-white illustrations throughout to visually augment the reader’s journey.~ Read more