Playland of the Kings is the story of a man’s quest for Truth, his spiritual identity, and his connection to Life--a true New Age, Truth seeking, travel and adventure story.
Part One of the story—Rainbow Colored Eyes--is the candid and authentic journey through the terrain of the mind and spirit of a young man seeking to know the world he is floundering in and find his place in it. Eric’s exploration into manhood begins when he makes a break from the expectations of parents, friends, and society and, on a whim, quits university in Boston to head out with his older brother on a road trip across the country to Vancouver. He wants to find out what life is all about. He wants to find something worth living for. He wants to know what his destiny is. From Vancouver, the trip becomes a solo journey to San Francisco, and then on to Guatemala, Central America, and South America.
He is often conflicted between joy and despair as he faces fears, both internal and external, in a self-constructed rite of passage that takes him to the summits of mountains, into the deepest jungles, and into war torn countries. He faces his fears and insecurities, too often with the assistance of drugs or alcohol, on a path that leads to growth and of understanding of what it means to be a man. He discovers that both breath-taking beauty and mind numbing ugliness can exist together in the world. He also discovers that they can co-exist in the person, and more specifically within himself. The reader is taken on a delightful and torturous ride with Eric and is given the rare and privileged opportunity to witness the unapologetic psychology of a young man striving to be more than just a man.
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