Follies of an Awakening Fool

Follies of an Awakening Fool begs the question: "What happens when you repeatedly fight the Universe's wake-up calls, pushing them aside for your own desires? Then, when you finally succumb because the knocking on the door is too loud, the answers begin to make sense. In the end, you realize that, maybe, all along everything was happening for an even greater purpose; maybe you weren't really fighting the Universe at all. Divinity is a boundlessly wise force.

Melmin, the main character, cuts his teeth in the world through a 20-year naval career, with a lot of confusion and growing general discontent with the world as he sees it. Every turn brings a seemingly new low in his life, culminating in some of his worst horrors coming to fruition. And then he gets a call from the Universe when he's at the bottom of the well, finding a mystical life awaiting him in the Awakening shift of consciousness occurring across the globe. Was it a pre-ordained path, or a decidedly stubborn amnesia of his childhood innocence?