Chronicles is a series of short Novellas based on the characters and concepts explored in the full-length novel “The Fourth Awakening.” The story picks up where the second novel in The Fourth Awakening series, “The Gathering Darkness”, leaves off. While each Chronicle is a stand-alone episode that can be read independently, it is a part of a much larger and continuing story.
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Penelope Drayton Spence is seeking to interview people who have arrived at the Fourth Awakening either through their own efforts or having it thrust on them unwittingly. With no noticeable outward changes, these people are difficult to identify and even harder to convince to talk about their experiences. The problem for Penelope is that when she can locate a potential candidate they have a nasty habit of simply vanishing.
The goal of each Chronicle is to present an Enlightened “Archetype,” and explore its characteristics. The archetypes are derived from and based on research conducted by the book’s second-author, Jeffery A. Martin, that involved over a thousand of these individuals worldwide. More about that research project can be found at: NonSymbolic.org.
In the first Chronicle we meet a professional gambler in Las Vegas, Daniel Wooten. He is a middle-aged, confirmed bachelor with no religious moorings. Wooten has never meditated, hasn’t been in a church in decades and hadn’t shown the slightest interest in his spiritual side until the moment he found himself enlightened.
The Fourth Awakening by Rod Pennington & Jeffery A. Martin has been the Amazon Kindle #1 Bestseller in “New Age > Mysticism” in the US for over three consecutive years. It has also been #1 in the UK in “Thought & Practice > Mysticism” for over two years.
