The Forbidden Flame: The Mystic’s Path Beyond Doctrine, Nation, and Name

The Forbidden Flame: The Mystic’s Path Beyond Doctrine, Nation, and Name is a spiritual declaration for the ones who walk without maps, kneel without altars, and burn without permission. This is not a book of religion. It is a book of return—return to the flame that cannot be caged, bought, or sanctioned. In every age, mystics have been born—souls who glimpse the Real not through doctrine, but through direct experience. They do not ask for approval. They do not seek conversion. They are lit from within, and for this, they are often exiled from the very temples built to honor what they know. Raised in an atheist China where “God” was a forbidden word, Laing Z. Matthews felt an ancient longing he could not name.