Natural Synchronicity Novel
by Leonard
Natural Synchronicity follows two wanderers searching for freedom beyond debt, borders and inherited identities, on a metaphysical journey that begins to dissolve everything they thought they knew about themselves, the world, and what it means to belong.
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About the novel
Natural Synchronicity begins at the edge of the metaphysical, with an image of a field preceding form, before moving outward into the lives of Iona and Koan.
They are two travellers moving through landscapes, cultures and states of attention: walking long distances, travelling by train, sitting in cafés and forest clearings, encountering the pressures of social systems while searching for another way of being within the world.
The novel's movement is philosophical and experiential. Conversations, journeys, relationships and moments of silence gradually become part of a larger inquiry into freedom, identity, belonging and the apparent separation between human beings, places and ideas.
Iona is a metaphysical wanderer with a deep dissatisfaction with the bureaucratic and debt-driven structures of modern life. Her journey through the strange cities of Cananga moves between meditation, wilderness, relationship and the question of whether freedom can still be found beneath the machinery of the age.
Koan travels from the damaged outback of a colonised homeland through his own entanglement with social convention and toward the possibility of a life lived closer to Earth, relationship and direct experience.
Their journeys eventually converge at a summit where familiar identities and assumptions begin to break apart. What follows comes at considerable cost.
Beneath the surface runs a quieter question: how much of the world we experience has been shaped by inherited structures, habits and assumptions?
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How to approach the novel
Natural Synchronicity is best approached as a consciousness journey rather than a conventional narrative.
It may particularly resonate with readers who feel some distance from mainstream ways of living; who are drawn to wilderness, wandering, meditation and philosophical inquiry; or who suspect that beneath familiar social structures there may be other ways of understanding freedom, relationship and belonging.
The novel was originally finalised in 2016.
Its voice is sometimes mystical, idealistic, irreverent and deliberately beatnik.
It is also the literary root of the wider Natural Synchronicity project.
That project has since expanded into film and the land-based practice of Ethiculture, exploring our place within the natural world.