If you ever wanted to know how is like to see the world from the eyes of a severely mentally ill person, this is the ideal book for you.

At least two of the main characters are alter-egos of the author, that suffers in real life from schizophrenia (sees and hears things that are not there and has disorganized toughs) with delusions of grandeur (thinks that he is in contact with superior beings that have chosen him to give him special information and a mission).

The entire narrative is a derange hodgepodge of events given mystic and religious interpretations taken from a wide range of cultures an traditions like Christianity, Gnosticism, Hermetism, Greek mitology, Dogon mitology, Judaism and a very long etc. all intermix with a few science fiction elements, mainly satellites and artificial intelligence.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the book is the fact that the author - and by extension his alter egos - knows that he is crazy, but he can't do anything about it. He has moments of lucidity where he knows that nothing of what he believes is real and is all in his mind but he then continues with his crazy fantasies just the same.

Because you are following the train of though of a crazy person, this book is not an easy read, but it's perhaps the best written representation of mental illness that you will be able to find.