The EIGHTFOLD PATH is here!

Your nervous writer friend has been absolutely on tenterhooks (without knowing precisely what a “tinterhook” is…) about EIGHTFOLD PATH, the new book. And since FB gave me a vacation on the day it came out, I’m going to pretend that day is today.

The first reviews are trickling in, and so far they are either raving, or “WTF did I just read?” which is almost as good.

I wanted to discuss the creative urge that triggered the project ten years ago, the composition of the stories, and the process I went through in getting it published. Looming large is the amazing gift of collaboration with Charles Johnson, one of the best and wisest men it has been my honor to know.

I have always sought answers for dealing with life, and let’s connect this with the ADHD “Life Ritual.” Understand: my ritual with Jason, for my son, is intimately connected to the rituals I use personally (meditation and Morning Ritual) or with Tananarive (“Blessing Dance”)

It is, in other words, a “Mastery” program scaled down to have a lower first step. But it is the SAME path. If the path of mastery includes techniques designed to produce extraordinary energy, aliveness, perception, focus, and so on, and you measured these qualities from 1 to 100, aren’t we ALL “on the spectrum”? I mean, really? And while most of us have an “average” amount of these different capacities (say, around 70) some develop or are apparently “gifted” with more (80%? 90%) and some due to varied factors, including environment and genetics (and who…