A Recovery Journey

In this second volume, the author focuses on the psychological and spiritual changes he continues to experience in his life-long awakening and recovery journey.

From the fearless drunk who placed himself in life- threatening situations, he became the sober and stable person able to recognize the difference between a rational, healthy fear and self-deceptive paranoia.

Over time, because of his connection to others, he was able to surrender many of his grand-narrative fantasies and his belief that social and professional roles defined his identity.

That surrender enabled the author to write his first novel in which one of the characters opened him up even more to a cathartic world of forgiveness he never thought was possible.

Happiness, he also discovered, was the end result of connecting to others, not because of an exterior divinity, nor because of his many-leveled delusionary hopes.