In this book the author shows how psychological and spiritual sufferings are interwoven , and how tradition with its answers can collaborate with psychology to alleviate them. He starts by questioning the Western notion of normality, saying it reduces human and apiritual potentials for growth to a king of average neurosis. He speaks of depression or depression-like reactions as an opening door towards spirituality, if dealt with in the rigt way. He attempts to discriminate between pathology and mysticism in what is called by psychologists regression and dissociation, and can be in some cases the awakening of the spiritual childhood or liberation of the hind from social conditioings.