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Book I: The World That Shaped the Man
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781764512190
Publisher: Conde Cagalitan
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Comfort was meant to protect him. Instead, it became the world that shaped him.
Born into a life of ease, predictability, and inherited stability, a man grows up believing the walls around him are safety. Only when the first cracks appear does he begin to see the truth: comfort is not neutral. It forms, defines, and confines. It teaches him what to fear, what to desire, and who he is allowed to become.
When the familiar world collapses, he is forced into a confrontation he never expected-a struggle not against an enemy outside, but against the shaping forces within. Every attempt to climb out of the well exposes another illusion he once mistook for truth. Every upward reach becomes a battle between the life he inherited and the life he must claim.
As he ascends, he faces the quiet seductions that kept him still, the securities that disguised themselves as love, and the self-made lies that promised peace while stealing his strength. The climb becomes a reckoning with identity, agency, and the cost of awakening.
*The World That Shaped the Man* is the opening volume of *The Metaphor of the Well*, a trilogy exploring the human journey from inherited comfort to conscious becoming. Stark, intimate, and unflinching, this book invites readers to examine the forces that formed them and to ask the question that echoes through every darkened chamber of the self:
What remains of you when the world that shaped you begins to fall away?
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