A Soul Suspended: Adventures with God

A radical spiritual awakening seems like the happy conclusion to an arduous spiritual quest. It turns out to be the beginning of a far more disorienting journey. Immersed in an eclectic blend of Western Magick, Buddhism, and African-Diasporic religions, Ona Kiser engages with angels and demons as she tries to find her way in a strange new reality. Instead she loses everything she relies on: her guiding spirits, her magick, her visions, her home, her pride, her will.

An encounter with a demon leads to an unanticipated request to be baptized in the Catholic Church. Yet this conclusion, too, is upended. With passion and raw honesty, Ona recounts a growing intimacy with God that slowly overwhelms her struggles between love and fear, until she finally gives up her heart entirely to the sweet embrace of her Beloved.