Tom Cutter is in love with airplanes and has been from his boyhood. He faces a choice: he can remain in England as an employee in another man's aviation business, or he can set out on his own.
With little more than personal grit and an antique aircraft, Cutter organizes an independent flying service on the Persian Gulf. Opportunities abound, but so do dangers.
In Cutter's journey from provincial conservative to worldly entrepreneur, he is willing to accept pain and danger in his search for personal growth. He becomes fascinated by the spiritual beliefs of the local Muslim population, leading him to start his own religion called "The Way." Through his travels and teachings, Tom attracts a group of devoted followers and becomes a spiritual leader.
However, his unconventional beliefs and practices lead to conflict with some of the more traditional religious and political authorities in the region. Despite the challenges he faces, Tom remains committed to his beliefs and the pursuit of a more peaceful and harmonious world.
The novel explores themes of religion, spirituality, cultural differences, and the clash between tradition and modernity.
A man of knowledge is free... he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived. --don Juan
In 1961, a young anthropologist embarked on an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a Yaqui Indian's world of "non-ordinary reality" and the difficult and dangerous road a man must travel to become "a man of knowledge." Yet on the brink of that world, challenging to all that we believe, he drew back.
Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had ever entered before.
Her master calls her shaman. Her people call her witch. Gods, spirits, and demons won't stop calling.
In this first book of B. Muze's epic primitive fantasy, Yaku Shaman believes he has at last found his apprentice—a girl who talks with ghosts, spirits, and gods with equal ease. Unfortunately, his people refuse to accept her. The shaman forces Jovai to sacrifice every hope of a normal life, until the people, unaware of the dangers threatening them, revolt.