Juma Espinoza: Your Future Is Behind You
An anthropologist explains why everything you call obvious is a story a group of humans once agreed to believe, why the Andes walk backwards through time, and what a team of well-meaning students got catastrophically wrong about a woman with a television.
Kym Masterson: Healing Is Never an Event
At twenty she lost the sight in one eye. At twenty-four she lost the use of her legs. After four and a half years of hospital she discharged herself, got her mother to drive her to the Brisbane city library, and started reading. What she found in those books is why humans now get on a plane to Thailand to work with her. She doesn't talk about her methods outside private sessions. I had to talk her into this one.
Todd Peyton: You Cannot Solve Body Problems Through Your Head
Twenty years as a psychotherapist. Eight years working for the US military. Seven years ordained as a Buddhist monk, off and on. Then a personal crisis he had no tools for. Todd Peyton on why he stopped trying to think his way through, and what Kundalini is actually for.
Isao Kato: This Life Is the Dream. When We Die, We Wake Up.
A Japanese corporate executive walked away with no plan, sat in one ceremony, felt almost nothing, and then found himself surrounded by roughly thirty dead spirits. Thirteen years later he does entity extraction for clients around the world, without a single plant medicine, and talks about death like a man describing his commute.
Frances Carrington: He Walked Into the Room, and He Was the Room
Thirty years of Vipassana. Eighteen years in India. Three meetings with the Dalai Lama. A childhood in a house where the poltergeist threw paintings off the wall. Frances Carrington on what shamanism actually is, and why the practitioner never interprets your experience for you.