Part 2: Into the Wastelands
by Steven Howard
Take this continued journey with Darien, now an eighteen-year old, as he breaks away from the restrictions of family and steps onto a path shaped by his past, one that leads him down into very dark places as he struggles to both hide from himself and find himself.
Follow him through his early adult years as a private, inner war plunges him into addiction. Witness the living of a life directed by the outside world, a life seemingly rescued from it for brief moments by a spirit guide named Sundeep — a friend, protector, and teacher who has been with Darien since before he was born.
Experience, firsthand, Darien’s decent as he approaches a point of no return.
“Steven Howard shares a powerful odyssey of the universal struggle to awaken to the Spirit within.” —Gary Simmons, Th.D. Author of “The I of the Storm: Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace;” “The Soul’s Conspiracy: Master Conflict, Transform Your Life;” and co-founder of the Q Process™.
About the Author
Steven Howard was born Donald Herbert Kirkpatrick and was adopted at the age of four when he became Donald Howard Camp. At the age of fifty-five, after a spiritual awakening, 15 years in recovery from addictions , and earning an MS in Counseling Psychology, he claimed the name Steven as the result of some major inner child work.
He also retired from a career in the corporate world and that was the beginning of his writing career and his decision to use the name Steven Howard for all his writings and other spiritual work.
Fast-forwarding to the present, Steven has become a certified Q Coach, has created and led workshops on the power of prayer, and has written and had published a spiritual trilogy of novels (The Darien Chronicles: Objects for Reflection, A Journey into Love), loosely paralleling the events and circumstances of his own spiritual journey. And most recently he has just released his first in a series of spiritually-oriented booklets. This one is titled “Living in the Moment” and he is keeping busy finishing the manuscript for the second one in the series, titled “Curiosity: The Gateway into Knowing.”
Married for forty-four years to his beloved soul partner, Paula, they now happily reside in The Villages, Florida.
Steven Howard
