THE SHADOWS OF DHYANA
Ever since losing his entire family in a car crash 10 years ago in England when he was just a child, David has suffered from nightmares. The same one, time and time again: of his own meaningless death, as a soldier in British India centuries ago.
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When, as an adult, living in Australia with an aunt, he finally gathers the courage to confront the past, he learns that the crash may not have been an accident, and of the sudden death of his grandmother at the same time. He travels to England with his girlfriend Greta and has an extraordinary meeting with his senile grandfather. Surprisingly, the nightmares stop, and David instead mysteriously starts dreaming the life of Milan, mixed race, half Indian and half English, born two centuries before in British India ruled by the East India Company, and accepted by neither Indian nor English.
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In modern day England, David’s life comes under threat from mysterious enemies and he and Greta flee. David races against time to understand the source of the danger and how to defend against it.
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He is aided in this by his dreams of Milan. As the stories unfold, two centuries and a world apart, they become increasingly steeped in Indian mysticism, with psychic powers edging towards the supernatural, and the stories begin to merge.
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The historical setting for MIlan is a fascinating one: British India before the Indian Mutiny. It was a time when 1/6th of the world’s population, living in the Indian Sub Continent (comprising modern day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar), were ruled, not by an emperor, king or parliament, but by a company. A time when a few thousand British employees of the East India Company, mostly convinced of their own cultural and moral superiority, governed 200 million “Indians”, people with a far older culture and radically different values and religions.