Essays

Writing that stands beside the book rather than inside it.

The book is one continuous story, and there was a great deal that did not fit into it: how different religions describe the end of the world and what they seem to agree on; what prayer is actually doing; the body as the ground of any subtle perception; and several first-person accounts that belonged nowhere in the main narrative.

Some of those texts will move here.

This is not a blog. There is no schedule, no promise to publish, and nothing to subscribe to. Texts appear when there is something worth adding — and if there is nothing, there is nothing.

This section is being assembled. In the meantime, the book is here.