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In Search of Dorian Gray
How is it possible to go from taking drugs with rock stars in London and New York to sipping tea with Ayatollahs and Sheikhs in Tehran and Beirut? Wow, this is hard to explain. So, I need to go further back. When I was a child, I spent all of my energy trying to get…
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Love, Hate and No Exit
French philosopher and playwright Jean Paul Sartre famously wrote, ‘Hell is just—other people’. I reread his play No Exit after the fallout with my shaman doctor. I do remember reading it in French class during high school, but revisiting it again now was illuminating. In the play, three characters arrive in Hell expecting fire and…
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My Monster Fairytale
Once upon a time, a foetus was conceived without her mother’s knowledge. One day, the mother had a tummy ache and so she went to see a doctor, not knowing that he was evil. Using his high voltage X-ray machine, the doctor secretly planted a horrible monster in the foetus’s stomach that feeds on human…