Over the last 10 years, I’ve spent a lot of time investigating the phenomenon of spiritual awakening. In my Ph.D. thesis, for example, I investigated the cases of 25 people who believed that they had ...

This is part 1 of 2. I mentioned several months back that I’m writing my memoir in fits and starts. I’ve actually been "trying" to write it for at least a decade. I know, Yoda: "Do or do not. There is ...