While the book is entitled Epiphany in Time, it may also be called Epiphany of Life. The author, as he states in the introduction, has over many years had on the air conversations with people of a variety of background on all kinds of topics. Nothing was scripted, nothing was set as a goal. They were spontaneous conversations on the topic of spirituality.
Rather than write chapters about the different viewpoints, the author decided to create an amalgam of the ideas floating around the airwaves and created a fiction/fantasy book that tests our understanding of what faith and fate are and how much we control our lives.
The main character in the book is Charles Mandrin, a professor at a university in California and a convinced atheist, full of belief that his conviction is correct. Religion is a fantasy, created and used to sedate people, but really without any grounding in reality and there no shred of evidence that it really can be supported by a rational, educated person. To his amazement, Charles then notices that things do exist and powers act beyond his control. What could that be? Religion? Faith? Spirits?
Charles embarks on a journey in life as well as in spirituality. He leaves California behind and finds himself in the remote jungles of Guatemala seeking a crystal of magical powers, thought to heal. But an accident happens and Charles finds himself in the future, unplanned, beyond his control and not really what he had planned for.
Charles now has to evaluated how he had lived his life, free from the restrictions of a well planned career and an environment he grew accustomed to. In the future, he is free to think back about the decisions he has made and how much of his life he has really lived, both by control of others and through self-determination or (maybe) even influenced by fate.
This book will keep the reader wondering about his or her own life. We live our lives taking things for granted, getting into routines and realizing to our show that things beyond our control tend to happen that can really annoy us (at best) or leave us totally helpless and unprepared (at worst). While we do not time travel into the future as an unknown environment, accidents happen and a situation may arise where we feel lost and helpless. how would we react and where would we gain our strength from to move on. The reader must ponder how much of our lives we control and how we tackle the big unknown called future.
This is not your typical fantasy story because of the spiritual angle, the story has significant more depth and is a book that will require the reader to think and ponder as he turns the pages.
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