What a powerful piece!!

“Without an inner life, the landing is truly brutal. We feel that we’ve lost absolutely everything. We have no resilience to bear the collapse. We scurry in the dust desperate to find a new place to invest our faith.”

And it is in that rock bottom that many will find the beginnings of their real life, in the utter disintegration of the illusions they formerly lived for. I think that this is what John, (whatever he was on, he saw some rational stuff), may have referred to when he said “there is joy in heaven for one sinner that repents”. That uses archaic religious language, but I think it is this, when someone WAKES UP from the delusions, and begins to live in connection to all that he/she is.