The World - Robin Wildt Hansen

Arkin Fisher is a young man in desperate need of spiritual initiation. He has supernatural visions that are so powerful they make it very difficult for him to act normally and manage his life. His reality breaks down, and he ends up in a psychiatric ward with a full-blown spiritual emergency. He is given the possibility to enter a drug-free spiritual healing programme, but only if he stakes his brain in a bet with the ambitious psychiatrist, Dr Memphis. Arkin's spiritual healing entails astral projection to a reality whose physical laws are governed by the logic of myth. Each region of this spirit world appears as the inside of a Tarot card. Arkin makes his way up the Tree of Life, through the Tarot cards, in his quest for the Tarot card of completion - The World - where everyday reality and magic fuse to become the Gold of the Alchemists. To have a chance to reach this goal, however, he must work on himself and his relationship with his spirit guides and other mythical creatures. The World takes the reader on an intense ride through the Tarot cards seen as locations in magical reality. It explores the relationship between astral travel and mythology on the one hand and, on the other, happiness and success in the normal world.