A Monk's Way: A Novel Journey into Spiritual Awareness: The Abbey Chronicles, Book 1

by Clark Eide

The book the Midwest Book Review calls "Impressively well written and consistently compelling...unfailingly entertaining."

If you enjoyed the "Celestine Prophecy" and the "The Power of Now", you'll be captivated by "A Monk's Way", the first book in the Abbey Chronicles series. Traditional religions don't seem to have all the answers, do they? Especially not for Jean Moreau, a modern day monk at the heart of a great religion. Strange? Maybe not…

Learn how this monk learns to think outside the box. Come along with him as he fights the temptation of an old flame and a dictatorial abbot. See how he teaches himself, and us, that the way to peace is not just through religion, but through the discovery of one's direct connection to the Divine.

See how Jean helps illuminate that path for us in his search for Awareness, the essential first step to that connection…

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Published December 19, 2023

About the author

I am a writer in several genres. My series, The Abbey Chronicles trilogy, are the memoirs of Jean Moreau, modern day monk at the fictional Abbey of Kervennec in France. Through trial and error, passions and emotions, his love of a woman, and struggles with his own demons, Jean Moreau arrives at answers and methods, some traditional but some not at all traditional, to satisfy the longing in his soul for Truth. The novels are entertaining stories incorporating thoughtful ideas on life and connection, as we follow Jean on his journey to personal gnosis. (You’ll learn a lot about monasteries, too, along the way!)

I love poetry and have written it all my life. I offer you a cross section of it in my book, My First 70 Years, Collected Poems. There is no art form more personal, more beautiful.

I also have a series of short books on Virtues, those unheralded but tremendously important key components to a happy life. It is all in my Jean Moreau’s Little Books of Wisdom series.

As a onetime entrepreneur and native of the United States, now living in France, my study of things spiritual has taken me around the world – from the USA to London, from France to Australia, and Ireland to India. My encounters and experiences have taught me that spirituality is about one thing only — direct connection to the Divine — as part of, or independent of, an organized religion. When we make the effort to go within and gain Awareness, we will find that connection, and the resulting path to temporal and spiritual contentment. In my writings, I’ve looked to synthesize what I have learned along the way and to incorporate that into story form and real life drama.

Enter the life and times of Jean Moreau. Enjoy the novels and see what you can pull from his experiences.