A Visit to the Garden

This book is about many things-growing up, human conditioning, delusions, and depending on the reader's perspective, drugs, a mental hospital, and God. It focuses on the unusual account of an eighteen-year old youth who receives a stark warning at the hieght of an absorbing, mystical adventure into the inexplicable. "People who've seen what we've seen can spend the rest of their lives in a mental hospital." On the third day after this grave warning, the youth is committed. What happened before and during his commitment that would later evoke recurring associations, as facets of the adventure fell in and out of focus? What did he see and experience that would persist in his mind for the rest of his life? His oft-repeated recollections and the mystifying memories would always arouse the same questions. What was it all about? What really happened? There would be comfort in the acceptance that God knows, but as for himself . . . everyday . . . he would remember.