Return to Freedom by Duke Tate

Return to Freedom by Duke Tate

In 1999, Duke Tate became deathly ill after getting bitten by a Wolf Tick on The Appalachian Trail in Connecticut. Less was known about Lyme Disease at the time, so his strange symptoms went untreated even though he had all the telltale signs of Lyme. After over a year of being nearly bedridden, his family finally managed to get him treatment by a medical doctor with extensive IV and oral anti-biotics for Lyme. The medicine worked and he became well enough to re-enter culture and live on his own, but he was still chronically fatigued. As days turned into years, he pretended like he was well and started dating and working but was truly struggling with fatigue on a daily basis.

Then something mysterious happened in the summer of 2004 - he was struck with a severe chemical sensitivity to new paint while painting his new apartment in Oxford, Mississippi where he was preparing to attend The University of Mississippi as a paralegal major. That first mysterious hint of chemical sensitivities, which he knew nothing about at the time, manifested into full blown Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) slowly over the course of the next two years. Duke was sensitive to absolutely everything: new paint, cleaning chemicals, perfumes and colognes, EMF's, mold and pesticides, causing him to move out of three rented places prematurely.

Along the way, he encountered a Mexican Sufi master named Ali Dede who ran an Institute in Mexico. Dede was an enlightened doctor who had trained all over the world and agreed to take on Duke as a student and as a patient. Over the next few years with Dede, Duke learned a tremendous amount about energy therapies, alternative health, the body, nutrition and optimal diet, and in time, with Dede's help, he freed himself from the bonds of chemical sensitivities and Lyme Disease. Duke has been physically well since 2009 and lives a joyful life in Southeast Florida with no chemical sensitivities anymore.

Tate, Duke: - Duke Tate was born in Flowood, Mississippi in 1980 to Ken and Charme Tate. He is married to the lovely Wiphawan Tate and the couple have two sons, Chirayu and Phiraphat. The author of 12 books in 4 languages, his book The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate was released in 2020 and selected for The Times Literary Supplement's 2020 Books of the Year List. It has also been featured in Mississippi Magazine's Heritage & Culture section, The Clarion Ledger and The What We Are Reading Today section of the mass circulated Arab News. Selected by Amazon as a Great on Kindle book, it is a #1 Bestseller in the Architectural Firm category, and has reached #1 in three additional categories. Duke attended high school at the Kent School, located in the lush Housatonic valley of Connecticut. His constant essay writing in his English classes there eventually shaped him into the writer he is now. Duke penned his first novel, The Opaque Stones, in 2014. After many subsequent edits, it has since been re-released as The Pearlmakers Trilogy. He has since gone on to to write three books about his time studying under Sufi masters in The Tradition, called the My Big Journey series. He has also written two fantasy adventure novellas in his Big John series. He likes to write about magical realism, life, spirituality, and health. He lives in Thailand for part of the year with his amazing wife, their sons, and their dog, Sugar.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781951465001
ISBN 10	1951465008
Title	Return to Freedom
Author	Duke Tate
Series	My Big Journey
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearl Press
Year published	2019-12-03
Number of pages	116
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.