This is a book of works which explore the mystical paths to illumination, drawing as a life's odyssey, from mythic and mystic sources, Hellenic, Indian Vedic and Buddhist, and, ultimately, Christian epiphany, using lyric symbolism and straight prose, to invoke a sense of life as the evolution of the soul. War, spiritual connection, emotion, pain, are explored as traveling to freedom and enlightenment, hopefully release, ascent to truth, a lens into...