THE ONLY PILLAR
Atheist Felix Andrews’ introduction to LSD radically immerses him within a rich spiritual world complete with principalities and supernatural phenomena. Without any foundational certainty, Felix’s life is volatile. Lacking wisdom and guided by demons, at nineteen, he embarks on a quest to cure cancer that inevitably leads him to homelessness. Living in his car and driven by the agony of cognitive dissonance, he scrambles across the continent seeking wholeness. His profound encounters with the living God eventually drag him to the very place he once despised: the foot of Christ's fated crucifix.
“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
The Only Pillar is a true story, broken down into vignettes told in the present tense in order to imprison the reader within Felix’s head at the time of each event. The past tense would sanitize and moralize Felix’s history. Written especially for the sake of a pre-Christian audience, The Seeker is about exploring ideas and stretching them to their logical conclusions. Ultimately, the sufficiency of Christ is displayed.
The Church is in need of representative stories which acknowledge the draw of psychedelic experiences, only to then demonstrate the superior spiritual power that comes from radically seeking after Jesus.
"The Only Pillar is riveting and bizarre. This book inhabits the intersection of psychology and spirituality as it exposes the great truth that God is not done working supernaturally to chase down and restore filthy sinners to Himself."
Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Youth homelessness and psychedelic drug use are astoundingly common in America. One of ten adults between the ages of 18 and 25 experience homelessness each year. Hallucinogen use is currently at the highest rate ever recorded. One in four US adults have used a psychedelic drug at some point. Eight percent have used a psychedelic drug in the past year. This rate is highest in men. Our culture has a growing fascination with psychedelic drugs, using them to achieve what they see as meaningful and life-altering experiences. This true story provides a bridge for psychedelic users and curious minds to make it all the way to a transformative belief in Christ. The message The Only Pillar inevitably portrays is that there is, in fact, only one ultimate reality and that, if sought, it can be uncovered. And Who is the singular God of that singular reality? JESUS IS GOD.
