Maya Burke is twenty-two, adrift, and quietly certain that life is supposed to mean more than this.
Then she discovers a journal left behind by the father she believed was long gone — and the surface of her ordinary life begins to fracture.
His writings lead her across the country: to sacred places where the land itself seems charged with memory, to a hidden community preserving an ancient practice, and to altered states of perception she has no language for.
The community holds an audacious premise — that through coordinated intention and awakened consciousness, human beings can shape the unfolding of history itself. That the world can change from the inside out.
And that Maya may be part of how it begins.
What starts as a search for her father becomes a descent inward: into inherited grief, buried memory, and a knowing within herself that has been waiting — perhaps all her life — to awaken. Her own becoming and the world’s, she discovers, are not separate.
Waking Maya is not just a story about one woman’s awakening. It’s about the possibility that all of us, together, might wake up too.