The Bleeding Mind [Ian Wilson]

[Stigmata] [Phenomenon] [Divinity]

The Bleeding Mind

Ian Watson

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, UK. 1988. First edition hardcover. Uniform yellowing throughout, some rubbing and a few dings to the edges of the dust jacket. An excellent copy. 

From the publisher:

"As Ian Wilson argues, stigmata are of rather more significance than merely as some minor religious freak. If, by whatever means, the mind really does cause the flesh to change..."

Why is it that the wound and the flesh are so key to the Catholic conception of Christ? It's as though Christ never escaped his earthly bonds, and instead remained in this world as a traveling mutilating thoughtform, resulting in the bloody eruptions of the stigmatic. A deep read into a nauseating phenomenon.