The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
For years, psychedelics were my religion.
All I ever wanted was The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever, the panacea, the cure for what plagued me. From those first moments when I tasted the earthy pulp of a psilocybin mushroom, it was love. Psychedelics were my sacrament. They shot me into cathedral vaults. The promise of eternal life through chemicals glittered seductively, but hid a yawning abyss.
The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever tells my story of psychedelic devastation and spiritual rescue. It chronicles my trajectory from acid enthusiast to soul-weary druggie to psychedelic refugee. I finally found The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever—in the last place I thought to look.
- Prologue
- The First Taste Is Free
- Godless Light
- Initiation
- Glutting the Sensorium
- Darkness Risible
- Magical Love
- We’ve Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden
- With Gods Like This, Who Needs Demons?
- Through the Valley
- It Is Well with My Soul
- Tasting the Real Thing
- Title: The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
- Author: Ashley Lande
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2024
- Pages: 260
- Format: Logos Digital, Paperback
- Trim Size: 5.25x8
- ISBN: 9781683597605
Ashley Lande is a writer and artist based in rural Kansas, where she lives with her husband, Steven, and three children.