The Craziest Thing That Ever Happened to Me, or, Existential Kink and My Shadow

I feel awkward about writing this, because the truth is that if someone else had written it, I wouldn’t believe anything they said. I’m generally a guy who doesn’t believe in magic or magical-seeming things. I’m a mechanistically-minded person. I certainly do not believe, in general, that people can achieve instant global changes in their consciousness through reading weirdly-titled spiritual self-help books written in a funky feminine vernacular.