Depression and other mental disorders have haunted humanity from the very start of civilization, and are still a great enigma even in these so-called enlightened times. They are spiritual and psychic maladies that are potentially both destructive as they are misty trails to higher states of being. A new memoir by a best-selling author and highly regarded scholar turns an unsparing eye on his own struggle with psychosis and finds, within the very illness that causes so much suffering, the resources for deeper love, understanding of the human condition, and the liberation from interior Archons. In this work, he reveals not only his battles against a life and soul destroying mental disease, but how he used the wisdom of the Gnostics, the inspiration of great mystic thinkers of the past, and esoteric theologies to rise above the storms of despair and avoid being swallowed by the void of nihilism. And how he encountered the Grace of the Divine in the strangest places when he needed it the most, before he lost his life in more ways than one. A very important and powerful episode for any person who has been or is victimized by these disorders, as well as anyone who has dealt with them through family or friends.
Eric Wilson, best-selling author of The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace
, Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
, and Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film
, as well as Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University.Eric's interview for The New York Times
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