In this book the author of On Having No Head investigates the most poignant problem our life poses - what lies at the end of it. He asks us to check four things. First, that to discover whether we are perishable, we must first discover what we are. Second, that outsiders are in no position to tell us this: they can only tell us what we look like at a distance. Third, that what we are is obvious as soon as we dare to look. And fourth, that we turn out to be in all respects the opposite of what we had been told. This revolutionary conclusion is arrived at by doing the nine "tests for...

This book, by the author of the well-known spiritual classic On Having No Head, is a kind of Pilgrim's Progress for the Third Millennium. It is also a condensation, in the form of a romantic adventure story, of Harding's major work, The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth. Concerning which, C.S.Lewis wrote to the author: "Hang it all, you've made me drunk, roaring drunk... My sensation is that you have written a book of the highest genius. Thanks to the nth "