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JOURNEY TO PALENQUE - In Search of THE 10 MYSTERIES OF REALITY
The Journey to Palenque is a 223 page philosophical/spiritual novel about a wealthy forty six year old real estate man named Charlie Westbrook who lives in Malibu, California. After tumultuous college years (booze and drugs), the death of his mother and coming out of a tailspin of self-inflicted misery, Charlie is living the dream with his beautiful wife, Catherine and twins age twelve.
Then he loses everything important to him. His wife and kids die in a head-on collision. Charlie sells everything and lost, escapes to San Miguel de Allende Mexico. The tragedy and drug and alcohol habits from his past get him known quickly as a drunken Gringo.
One night he’s thrown out of a bar in a stupor onto the street. A young woman taps him on the shoulder and tells him he must come with her. She takes him to a blind man, her grandfather, who is a mystical teacher. (Charlie had been generous to him as a beggar on the street.) After sharing with Charlie the first "Mystery of Reality", he sends Charlie around the globe to eight other countries where he encounters other mystical teachers who teach him the other nine mysteries of reality. These teachers are extraordinarily unique and interesting characters. In addition to Xavier the blind man, there is the beautiful Ingrid in Norway, hundred year old Vilhelm in Amsterdam, 4’ 11” Peruvian Alejandro in Peru, Kashmiri, an Indian expert on reincarnation in Mumbai, India, about to be excommunicated Father Giovanni in Rome, a gypsy in the South of France named Kizzy Lala and a waiter in Soweto South Africa.
Each chapter reads also like a travelogue, the reader getting to experience each place such as Amsterdam, Machu Picchu Peru, Norway, Rome, and South Africa. These are all places the author has been and writes from his experiences there. In the South of France Charlie is joined by Suzanne, a female fellow mysteries seeker and after some initial friction they end up in a love and sexual relationship.
In the end, Charlie finds the peace he was looking for and the reader has been introduced to 10 core ideas of quite a revolutionary way of thinking.
The mysteries are based on the content and ideas of books like the Course in Miracles and the Disappearance of the Universe.
Then he loses everything important to him. His wife and kids die in a head-on collision. Charlie sells everything and lost, escapes to San Miguel de Allende Mexico. The tragedy and drug and alcohol habits from his past get him known quickly as a drunken Gringo.
One night he’s thrown out of a bar in a stupor onto the street. A young woman taps him on the shoulder and tells him he must come with her. She takes him to a blind man, her grandfather, who is a mystical teacher. (Charlie had been generous to him as a beggar on the street.) After sharing with Charlie the first "Mystery of Reality", he sends Charlie around the globe to eight other countries where he encounters other mystical teachers who teach him the other nine mysteries of reality. These teachers are extraordinarily unique and interesting characters. In addition to Xavier the blind man, there is the beautiful Ingrid in Norway, hundred year old Vilhelm in Amsterdam, 4’ 11” Peruvian Alejandro in Peru, Kashmiri, an Indian expert on reincarnation in Mumbai, India, about to be excommunicated Father Giovanni in Rome, a gypsy in the South of France named Kizzy Lala and a waiter in Soweto South Africa.
Each chapter reads also like a travelogue, the reader getting to experience each place such as Amsterdam, Machu Picchu Peru, Norway, Rome, and South Africa. These are all places the author has been and writes from his experiences there. In the South of France Charlie is joined by Suzanne, a female fellow mysteries seeker and after some initial friction they end up in a love and sexual relationship.
In the end, Charlie finds the peace he was looking for and the reader has been introduced to 10 core ideas of quite a revolutionary way of thinking.
The mysteries are based on the content and ideas of books like the Course in Miracles and the Disappearance of the Universe.
138 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 3, 2012
About the author
Daniel Acuff
28 books3 followersDaniel Acuff Ph.D. is considered to be one of the leading experts on marketing to children and kid-attractive products, programs and characters in the world. He is the author of the foundational book: What Kids Buy and Why - the Psychology of Marketing to Children. As a consultant for more than twenty-five years, he has assisted more than fifty major corporations with their kid-targeted new products and programs and their marketing. Companies include such as: Disney, Mattel, Hasbro, Nickelodeon, ABC TV, Hallmark, Kellogg's, Kraft, Nestle and Marvel. He assisted M&M Mars in the creation of the M&M characters. Dr. Acuff is the author of ten books, four screenplays and hundreds of articles focusing on the likes and dislikes of children, kids, tweens and teens.
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