The earth, says Teed, is concave and that we humans live on the inside surface of a hollow planet with the universe at its center so that we’re looking out—well, inwards actually—at the stars…

It was an unusually humid evening when I decided to walk over to the meeting about twenty blocks away. An expanse of unfriendly thunderheads were overhead that forced me to quicken my pace…

On one of the first evenings, I spoke with an old monastery friend over a few cups of sake. She had been ordained in the last couple of years and beyond her shaved head, there was a noticeable change about her…

Thankfully, and I rarely think of it this way, I had a dozen seizures. Not all at once or anything but over the next decade…