Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali

Craig Smith was good looking, charismatic, outgoing — a gifted musician whose songs were recorded by some of the biggest names in entertainment. His future success seemed assured, but the clean cut Craig Smith became the schizophrenic Maitreya Kali, a self-proclaimed psychedelic Messiah. Mike Stax spent fifteen years piecing together one of the most tragic stories of the 1960s and