Finding the Beauty Way: One Man’s Memoir About Accidentally Meeting … God?

For Luke, it began with a sudden swirling current rising around his spine, as if something ancient had finally awoken. In an instant, the world he had built—business, long-term love, belonging—cracked open, and instead of wondering what to make for dinner, he found himself wondering whether he needed an exorcist. Doctors named nothing; his therapist named too much. For a year, he moved through days that felt like smoke, haunted by a sorrow he could neither escape nor understand. Then a guide offered a curveball: “Luke, this isn’t a problem—it’s an upgrade people seek. It’s a Kundalini Awakening.” To which he responded, with great spiritual maturity: “Kunda-WHAT? Why the f**k would anybody want this?!” Armed with nothing but curiosity, courage, a backpack, and the faint hope he wasn’t dying, Luke sold nearly everything he owned and left home in search of answers. In strange lands, healers laid hands on old wounds, mystics read the language of his longing, dancers returned him to his own heartbeat, and snails ensnared him in slowness.