Enigma: Discovering the Moments that Form Your Life

by Charles Stoll

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Joshua Chambers is facing a catharsis when he learns that 14 of his friends have perished in a tragic blaze. In an attempt to make sense of his life, Joshua returns to his earliest memory, sitting in a stroller in his dad's orthopedic shoe store being adored by a customer who teaches him about trust and love. Joshua then traces the forty significant events that created the person he is today. Joshua travels from the purity of his grade school love, Cathy, to a more mature relationship later show more in life with Chris. Their discussions challenge conventional beliefs and Josh discovers that there is an authentic power in allowing one's body, mind and spirit to find its own balance.From his fraternity days to an African Baptism with incredible interpretations of "God," his talks with Valentino, who is dying from AIDS, and his brief stint in jail, Joshua constantly grows and evolves. Everything leads to an inevitable triumph of the human spirit when Joshua dances in heaven as a conscious vibration. Enigma portrays philosophy, spirituality and sexuality as they actually exist in the present day. show less

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This is the story of Josh, or as he's only called a couple of times in the book, Enigma. Josh didn't seem like an enigma to me, we see him as a typical two year old. From there we see him as a precocious child (I liked this and thought it was going to go somewhere interesting) and then followed him as a typical, middle class teen who rebels a bit from that middle class upbringing (but nothing many young adults have done). And that's where I had a problem with this novel. I never felt like I connected to his belief in the three: physical, mental and spiritual. I kept thinking Josh had some possibilities but he let his show more drinking and drugs block him from fully realizing and moving forward with actualizing those beliefs - in other words I belief his 'physical' superimposed on his spiritual and mental possibilities. If this is going to be a fiction book about a person's philsophical or spiritual journey I want there to be some type of growth or change for the better. If it's a non-fiction book about a philosphical or spirtual work tell me your journey and how your philosphy fits.

As I mentioned there were moments, or glimpses into this belief in three but it's almost as if the author doesn't want to us to understand - as if he alone has the ability. show less

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