Dr Veronika Petkova: 'The Pearl we seek – as the highest element within each human being, constituting the very core that makes our existence possible at all – is already present in each of us. It will be envisioned as a radiant light, a star, a sun, but it really is the dark presence in what we experience as a nothingness.'

Note: It is advisable to have some experience of SIREN, an earlier novel also available on this site