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The Echo of Monsters

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Pub Date Jun 28 2026 | Archive Date Aug 27 2026


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Description

This story is a psychological excavation, a deep dive into guilt and fear, and the crushing weight of trying to survive our mortality. It proposes man has to descend before he can ascend from his worldly experience and overcome death.

The story also offers something else unsettling: a journey into the mind of a man unravelling under the pressure of his own ideas, beliefs and shedding everything he imagines he knows.

Will this story offer you the ultimate release from all suffering?

It doesn’t offer sympathy; it offers a mirror. And crucially whether redemption from the human condition is possible.

It invites you to consider you have suffered enough, that is why you are reading this.

Welcome, you have answered the Call.

For a moment let’s return to the self you imagine you are; you feel trapped inside fear, which is largely unconscious, and often becomes overwhelming. Perhaps the pain seems inevitable for an open deep heart, such as the dread of being lost, alone or anonymous.

In short you are exhausted by the pretence.

The story is intended to navigate you to the truth of who you are.

The more predisposed you are to your sense of self, the more resistance you will have in accepting the content.

Read it slowly. Let it provoke you. Because we need one another.

This story is a psychological excavation, a deep dive into guilt and fear, and the crushing weight of trying to survive our mortality. It proposes man has to descend before he can ascend from his...


A Note From the Publisher

David. H. Rankin has been involved in the founding and development of a spiritual healing centre in rural Spain. This story was inspired by the peace and tranquillity he discovered there. The project began four years ago and remains ongoing. He hopes this book may show the reader that there is an alternative to the birth-death cycle, commonly referred to as the human condition.

David. H. Rankin has been involved in the founding and development of a spiritual healing centre in rural Spain. This story was inspired by the peace and tranquillity he discovered there. The project...


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ISBN 9781806347063
PRICE £5.99 (GBP)
PAGES 256

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