Another One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In 1959, social psychologist Dr. Milton Rokeach had the bright idea to put together in the same room three paranoid schizophrenics who each thought they were Jesus Christ. For two years they had a regular meeting in which these troubled souls tried to work out for themselves what it meant to have three incarnations of God’s son exist and interact simultaneously. It makes for some astounding dialogue, and is captured wonderfully in Rokeach’s resulting book, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.

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