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Faith and Resistance
I have never been more disappointed in humanity. My healing journey continues to get more difficult the closer I am to unwinding the knots of scar tissue in my facial nerves. I have never felt less safe or more alone. And never, ever this angry. I spent five decades of my life trying to tell…
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Mirror Neurons and Empathy
Right now, I feel like a walking, talking nervous breakdown. Essentially, that is what I am doing: by finally healing the pinched nerves in my face and throughout the vagus pathway, the scar tissue – my monster – is losing its physicality. Thus, my energy and its accompanying monster logic, which has long kept my…
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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…