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Wistman's Wood - A Tale of the Moors and Beyond
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In an ancient oak forest on Dartmoor, Michael receives an impossible vision: human consciousness has been constrained for millennia by a flaw encoded in our DNA. To fix it, he must orchestrate a mystical ritual at eight sacred sites around the world-simultaneously, at the summer solstice.
With the help of a mysterious guide named Clair and network of believers spanning continents, Michael assembles guardians at Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Delphi, Uluru, Mount Kilimanjaro, Angkor Wat, and Chartres Cathedral. As the solstice approaches, the world watches-some with hope, others with scorn.
When the ritual succeeds beyond anyone's expectations, the aftermath is subtle but undeniable: people begin making different choices. A CEO prioritizes sustainability over profit. A politician votes her conscience. A mother truly listens to her daughter.
I visited Wistman's Wood on a spring morning much like the one that opens this book. Standing among those gnarled oaks, I felt something I can only describe as presence, not threatening, but ancient and aware. It was the kind of feeling that makes you question the boundaries between the material and the numinous, between what we can measure and what we can only sense.
That experience planted the seed for this novel, but the question that grew from it was larger: What if human consciousness itself has been constrained? What if we're capable of so much more, more empathy, more foresight, more connection-but something holds us back?
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