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What if during the psychedelic 1970s, a somewhat “normal” guy stumbled through an open portal in time and space, allowing him unprecedented access to abnormal phenomena and unexplainable events? And what if the side effects were so disturbingly horrific, that the penance for his “state of higher consciousness” meant a 30-year sentence of severe panic, somatization, flashbacks, depression, and hypochondria from an “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?”

Another fantasy novel you say? No, tragically it is the all too true memoir of one Daxx Danzig. “From Acid to the Body of Christ” is a dark journey to the underbelly of the human psyche with a “bright shiny” conclusion. It is complete with delusions, debauchery, lycanthropic transformations, narcissism, humor, music, and numerous quirks and afflictions that eventually lead to self-redeeming salvation. The book is a study of ever-conflicting dilemmas symbolized by the evil “purple microdot” (The Protagonist) and the eventual wafer representing Christ’s body, which one receives when saved (The Antagonist). Throughout the madness is death, lurking as a constant and underlying menace at each rabbit hole he manages to fall into. Although there are no anthropomorphic creatures that sit on mushrooms smoking hookah pipes, there are many similarities drawn from the parable known as “Wonderland” (life?).

His perspective comes from being the original and possibly the only “metrosexual” male of intellect growing up in the state of Mississippi. Being unable to venture from his “comfort zone” (a well defined five-mile radius from home) did not prevent him from becoming a Vice President of Security for a major hotel and casino, or a deputy sheriff in the most God-forsaken prison in the south. Imagine Barney Fife walking the catacombs of Alcatraz!

Mr. Danzig is now a certified K-12 Physical Education/Creative Writing teacher for a school district in Mississippi, where he resides with his wife and three children. He has written health and fitness columns in the Pulitzer-Prize winning Sun Herald newspaper along with many other regional publications. His true passion however, lies in the humiliation and degradation of exposing his secrets to America in this tell-all manifesto from a unique and wondrous journey. Laced with “pop culture” and stream of consciousness writing style, the project is a memoir with very slight embellishment or deviation from his disturbing experience.

Welcome to the nightmare that is... Daxx Danzig.