"One day without any warning he took me with him on a trip to the East, where I met some holy men and saw indescribable things. When we returned, he gave me a book. At first it seemed totally indecipherable, maybe even stupid, but every time I read it I got more and more into it. Meanwhile, I felt that the end was getting closer, but I continued to work stubbornly to follow his teachings until one night, suddenly, I felt as if something inside me had broken. Like a river that breaks its banks and overflows, as if something unknown being born inside me wanted to invade every remote corner of the Universe. I felt sensations that even today I cannot express in words, I had crossed a boundary unknown to me. The tests which I underwent periodically indicated a slow but progressive regression of

