The first part of this twenty-year saga, Brian and the Rainbow Men , recounts how Brian, a most unlikely seer, survives an awesome spiritual emergence in 1980, during which he is brainwashed and tasked psychically by knowledgeable voices in his head over a four-day period without sleep to enlighten mankind as to how and why it exists at all and the role it is eventually destined to play in the evolutionary path of universal intelligence from its explosive genesis to a state of conscious perfection; without getting himself persecuted in the process. Under threat of a terminal solution for mankind if he fails in this cosmic task, Brian is granted just seventeen years to produce what can only be classified as a whimsical scripture with a difference for the so-called new age in which he lives. After waiting some ten years during which he slowly recovers from the adverse effects of his psychic ordeal, he sets about his task by first enlisting the help of his inner literary self, Byron Warbash, and a jolly band of cartoon characters called the Rainbow Men. In this way Brian feels he can both disseminate what is in effect an extremely radical yet logical and benign philosophy and still appear to be nothing more than a deluded clown with a split personality. The revelation is there for all freethinkers to take on board, but hardcore traditionalists fearing to change their status quo beliefs can if they choose just scoff at the clown's audacity and simply laugh all his overtures to scorn. There is of course method in Brian's apparent madness. The psychic master that enrolled Brian into what is known as its Cosmos Club advised him thus: Brian you've been given all the clues relative to the purpose of this universe and man's place in it. But, remember: There are to be no more martyrs and no more religions. Stay the clown, Brian; we like you that way. And who is Brian to disobey the edicts of a ruling Cosmic Trinity, comprising the Leading Light, the Guiding Power and the Ultimate Force Itself?

On the back cover of Brian and the Rainbow Men it states that this is a delightful book, presented in a unique whimsical style; it's thought-provoking and quixotic; and it takes the reader past the labyrinth of the mental psyche and into a para-psychedelic journey. With this summary, I emphatically agree.