AN INCREDIBLE SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE

A dying man’s final brushstrokes create an image that shatters another man’s life, sending him on a pilgrimage of self-discovery. He must cross the barriers of time, space, death, and even individuality. The prize? Joy beyond all darkness: a spiritual radiance of inner bliss and completeness, an all-consuming love: the ultimate human experience.

How many of us are called to undertake this pilgrimage? How many are strong and fearless enough to complete it? Are you?

Alan McKee has been a writer since the age of six, when he started to plot Superman and Batman stories with the luminaries of the so-called “Golden Age of Comics,” his father, Alvin Schwartz, Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman, and others from the DC stable. His first novel was accepted by Doubleday when he was 22. He’s ghostwritten audio self-development programs by Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins and other personal development gurus for Nightingale-Conant Corporation. He has also authored three Victorian mysteries. Alan is a visual digital artist who has exhibited internationally and pioneered the art form, making digital art, including NFTs on the computer with large and medium format photography for more than thirty years. Themes of climate changing focusing on the natural world of Gaia: Mother Earth.

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Myth, memory, and longing converge in McKee’s interconnected short stories, a visionary collection of fables about anguish, liberation, and the embrace of inner radiance. Each story revolves around a character on the brink of despondency, who encounters visions, voices, or uncanny figures that steer them toward a harrowing, revelatory path to wholeness. Bound together by the Lady of Eternity, a multidimensional being who represents the Divine Feminine, McKee’s narratives draw on archetypes of despair, innocence, and resilience. These modern parables present pain as a necessary rite for transformation; it also functions as a portal for his characters to glimpse transcendence. Themes of silence, suffering, and redemption recur throughout Embracing Radiance, and McKee’s invocation of the Divine Feminine, who offers healing and compassion, serves as an intuitive, maternal source of comfort and radiance. In “The Burning Child,” a knight must accept a wound that never heals; the abused child in “The Boy Who Loved Rain” finds emotional release during storms by controlling lightning; and “The Tree of Silence” describes a child’s withdrawal into self-imposed deafness following his mother’s death. Meanwhile, “A Radiance of the Past” details a writer’s life-changing encounter with a cryptic piece of graffiti, one that invites a feminine Presence to fill him with devotion and renewed purpose. McKee’s prose is lush, incantatory, and imbued with fantastical imagery: children who long to be fawns, houses that reveal enchantments, mothers who transform into wolves. These stories have a mythopoetic resonance, with characters serving as vessels for universal concerns rather than individuals with interior lives. McKee heads each story with his own evocative illustrations that serve as visual echoes of the dream states his characters inhabit, drawing readers into his mindset without providing easy interpretations. Contemplative and haunting, Embracing Radiance offers an archetypal vision of human tribulation and the forces that guide us forward into profound understanding. Takeaway: Symbolic narratives tap into emotional reservoirs of trauma and deliverance. Comparable Titles: Ramona Ausubel’s Awayland, Urszula Honek’s White Nights. Production grades Cover: B- Design and typography: A Illustrations: A Editing: A- Marketing copy: B+