The Geography of Truth

What if the world’s places were not destinations, but messages meant for your heart?

The Geography of Truth turns the globe into a living atlas of meaning. In more than one hundred short, lyrical prose pieces, Feroz Anka walks through ancient temples and modern megacities, war zones and quiet monasteries, subway platforms and deserts, asking one persistent question:

What does each place reveal about the human soul and its direction?

Across eight parts, you move from the first forgotten altars of humanity to the glass towers of capitalism, from Cairo and New York to Gaza, Kashmir, Darfur, Tehran, Konya, Tibet and beyond – and finally into the inner geographies of heart, dream, memory, intention and sacred silence.

This is not a conventional poetry book and not a travel guide.

It reads like a chain of meditative essays and prose-poems – spiritual, political, tender, angry, and full of questions.

Inside, you will walk through:

• Stone geographies – Göbeklitepe, Harappa, the pyramids, Stonehenge and other “devices” built to remember the sky.
• Modern labyrinths – Paris, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Dubai, Seoul and more, each exposing a different fracture in the modern mind.
• Lands of pain and resistance – Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Bosnia, Rohingya camps, Kashmir, Darfur, Somalia… places where maps are drawn with blood and yet hope refuses to disappear.
• Inner continents – the heart as the oldest temple, the grave as a small room at the edge of eternity, dreams, memory, intention, grace, and sacred silence.

Written in a voice that is poetic but accessible, Anka speaks to readers who are:

• Tired of easy spiritual slogans, yet still hungry for something real.
• Wounded by injustice but unwilling to give up tenderness.
• Suspicious of institutions, but unable to silence the intuition that there is a truth, and it is calling.

Open this book when the news breaks your heart, when you cannot sleep, when you feel far from God or from yourself. Let the world’s scattered places become a quiet conversation between your feet and your soul.

You were born to walk.

Let this be one small step back toward direction.