By all outward-facing measures, Luke’s life was a roaring success. A top 40 under 40 award recipient for distinction in entrepreneurship in his homeland, a relatively harmonious and loving nuclear family life, friends all over the world from years of travel and a romantic love he believed was quite simply the greatest love of all time. He could think of no other relationships on earth as easeful, soulful and perfectly matched as his. By many inward facing measures however, his inner life felt anything but harmonious. For much of his life, Luke battled depression and a deep sense that he was all alone in the universe. That none of any of existence really mattered. It was only funny that “matter” made up the contents of existence and that we then spend our lifetimes wondering if it even matters.
Near the end of 2021, Luke experienced an energetic eruption around his perineum that sent energy swirling upward around his spine toward and seemingly out of his head where, once the energy reached his crown, gave him an overwhelming sensory perception that he was connected to the entirety of the universe and all of its contents. It came swirling back down his spine as he felt everything, including every person, as himself. The energy was so profound that his nervous system felt like a loving atomic explosion had ignited its every fiber. For some time, he couldn’t stop shaking. The entire experience was a pure sense of loving awareness. Among many he had already had in less dramatic fashion and would then come to experience in ever more dramatic fashion. In that exact moment, there was no fear, no anxiety, no linear time and his sense of self eviscerated. Outside of that moment and around that time, it was totally disorienting. Having no context for this event, and many others he experienced, he spent a year seeking help from many different doctors in the Western health system. He “specialist”-hopped – thinking he was going insane and that his body was failing him. He had no idea what had happened.
Three weeks and two days prior to this event, he would have been overheard saying to a friend “i’m with the love of my life. We never fight, we love the same things and have the same vision for our futures. She’s my person forever. i just know it. i’m so happy with her.” Three weeks after saying this, Luke told that same friend he was now out of their house. He and his beloved had suddenly, out of seemingly nowhere, broken up. His life as he knew it, was gone.
It was two days after leaving the sanctity of a perfect love and their home of 13 of their 15 years together, when Luke experienced what he came to understand was a rare phenomenon – that seems to increasingly now be happening to people. Luke’s entire world-view, sensory perception of reality and understanding of life completely shifted. In the coming months, having one magic-like experience after another that he would not have believed had he not directly experienced them, Luke came to answer all of his existential questions.
“finding the Beauty way” is a creative memoire that documents the events leading up to this overwhelming moment in a life – and those that followed – as well as how a new reality has been shaped since.
“finding the Beauty way” tells the beautiful, heartbreaking and true story of one man’s spontaneous connection to the source of energy he believes all matter emerges from. And how that has transformed a life where consistent depression privately plagued what was publicly seen as a “successful life” to one where consistent states of flow, joy and, above all, equanimity are the textures of its daily inner canvas. A life of speed and pursuing happiness transformed into a life of slowness and actually being happy; without sacrificing financial nor worldly matters. In a world racing toward technology to extend human life-spans – whilst most human’s perception of time as they age is increasingly speeding along – “finding the Beauty way” shows us we can extend our perception of time a lot more easily and without needing to wait for scientific discoveries by selling us “the pill.” By tuning into ourselves and what’s here and now, we can all find that there is nothing required outside of ourselves.
Luke believes that if he lives to 132 years of age it will have felt like 200 or more years at his current pace of experience. One where transcendence, a deep sense of unity to all people and all of Nature, joy, creativity and fun make up a life. No drugs required. This among many surprising revelations, “finding the Beauty way” is one man’s accidental discovery of what it is each of us is truly made of, where we come from, why we’re here and what happens when we die: it’s All nothing short of magic!
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