The Book That Should Not Exist A Novelette of Neuroscientic Exorcism and the Debt Between Science and God.

Dr. Elias Vogel is a neuroscientist whose life has become an experiment in exhaustion. After years of stimulant dependence, manic productivity, and suppressed grief, his mind no longer obeys its own architecture. When Vogel is assigned to document the psychiatric case of Anna Richter — a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder — he sees only another tragic collision between trauma and neurochemistry. Her dissociation, hallucinations, and religious delusions are textbook. Her fixation on medieval imagery is predictable. Then she begins reciting passages from a manuscript no one has digitized. Anna's symptoms soon escalate beyond diagnostic language. She speaks in archaic Latin. She reacts violently to religious symbols she should not recognize. During dissociative episodes, her speech cadence, memory retrieval, and EEG readings diverge from known psychiatric patterns. At the insistence of her devout family, Vogel reluctantly collaborates with Father Matthias Riedl, a Jesuit historian and reluctant exorcist. Riedl introduces a suppressed 14th-century codex known as the Codex Rhenanus — a manuscript describing possession as neurological debt: borrowed clarity, stolen time, and consciousness hollowed out by false energy. The codex's contents begin aligning with Anna's neurological collapse. And then with Vogel's. As Vogel documents an exorcism under clinical conditions, the ritual produces measurable anomalies — heart rate spikes, speech alterations, amnesia, and an EEG signature that matches Anna's during her worst episodes. The manuscript's ink appears to change. Its illustrations evolve. Its margins begin recording events that have not yet happened. Vogel's own mind fractures under stimulant abuse, insomnia, and creeping paranoia. He becomes convinced that the book is not symbolic — but responsive. Blending neuroscience, theology, and historical possession accounts, The Book That Should Not Exist refuses to resolve whether Anna is psychotic, possessed, or something more destabilizing: a human interface between chemistry and metaphysics. The novel explores: • bipolar disorder and borderline fragmentation • trauma-induced dissociation • stimulant-driven false clarity • religious delusions and symbolic possession • the ethics of diagnosis • the neurological cost of obsession • the spiritual cost of certainty Neither psychiatry nor faith emerges unscathed. Because some debts are not chemical. And some books do not want to remain unread.