In 1998, at the age of 22, the author of this book-who refers to himself only as "John Smith"-experienced a terrifying vision of hell after going on a massive bender of booze, cocaine, and crystal meth. For two days and two nights he was shown the alcohol-saturated region of the underworld that awaited him at the end of the road of excess, on the other side of death. Was it real, or just a drug psychosis? An atheist and a raging alcoholic at the time of this nightmare, John came to believe that establishing a relationship with God was the single most important thing in life. Haunted by demonic visions for years afterward, John takes readers through the extraordinary journey of spiritual awakening that culminated in his sobriety and finally allowed him to heal from the darkness of his past. His desperate quest to make sense of what he had seen led to an encounter with the universal truths at the heart of the world's religious traditions, and to his ultimate acceptance of the ages-old view, held by the mystics of every faith, that consciousness itself is the seat of divinity-and the key to understanding both heaven and hell. Full of strange hallucinations, miraculous discoveries, and astonishing moments of synchronicity, Through the Invisible is a thrilling adventure into the uncharted regions of the human mind and spirit, and the moving record of a lost soul's return to the light. A rare and powerful account.