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I'm a spiritual coach and writer. My new book is Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, from Namaste Publishing. Shapes of Truth, which describes a recent, spectacular discovery about the human soul, was released in 2021. My wife, Anne Lamott, and I have a book on writing coming out on Penguin/Avery in Spring 2026.
Every once in a while a short story of mine gets published. They've appeared in two Flash in the Attic anthologies that Amazon carries, and The MacGuffin.
My literary heroes are all over the place: Faulkner, Henry Miller, Ishmael Reed, Virginia Woolf, Poe, Yeats, Olds, Dostoevsky come to mind. My spiritual heroes likewise: Lao Tzu, T.S. Eliot, Dogen, Jed McKenna, A.H. Almaas, Gurdjieff, Trungpa, Adyashanti, Patanjali, and whoever wrote the Gospels, Mahabharata, and early Buddhist discourses.
More at shapesoftruth dot com.
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