She Said He Said
Is Asher from The Telepathy Tapes Real? Don’t get me wrong. Both of us have enjoyed our five minutes of fame, on the whole. Being featured on The Telepathy Tapes led to our book, which, after a short flurry of interest in…
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Who Are the Outliers?
The Pyramid Structure The vast majority of societies are constructed in a particular way and have been so in one form or another since the writing of records began. It involves having leaders, supported and advised by a cluster of experts,…
The Problem with Words
Asher’s relationship with words has been unusual, to say the least. For the first six years of his life, he was a solitary and almost silent child. He avoided social contact and, he tells me, spent much of his time…
Three sides of a coin
Coins, when you think about it, do have three sides. Certainly, we’re more accustomed to seeing the familiar, flat heads or tails surfaces, but there is also that narrow, curved rim that connects the two. In rare circumstances, that is where our…
Of Yogis, Anchorites, Shamans and their like
Wisdom in Solitude? I’ve often mused that if, like some latter-day Carlos Castaneda, I claimed to have ventured deep into little-known lands — a rainforest or desert, perhaps, or three-quarters of the way up a mountain in Bhutan — to…