SANJAY SAYS

The Most Mind-Blowing Book You’ve Never Heard Of

How an obscure book, a chance encounter, and a radical shift in perspective are changing the way I see reality

I could have sworn I saw a spoon around here somewhere — created in DALL-E

I’m constantly on the lookout for ideas I can turn into new ways of thinking or being or doing. Most of them don’t have any appreciable or consistent effect, but every once in a while I stumble onto something profound.

Psychedelics and IFS therapy… these have been profound stumbles into insight.

Stumbles that led nowhere include hypnotism, affirmations, 20 years of talk therapy, biofeedback, antidepressants, lucid dreaming, eating an apple a day, cold showers, subliminal tapes, health spas, recreational drugs, and alcohol. Some of them are fun and harmless, but insight? Nuh-uh.

And now, I’ve stumbled onto a marvelous, unsettling, and profound book that has left me vibrating with energy — one that nobody has ever heard of. Yes, I’ll tell you the title eventually, but I want to tell you a story first.

I hadn’t seen my friend Stefan* in a decade. We used to work together, but he was let go from our company under implications of impropriety. He also had a drug habit and an alcohol habit. A bit of a mess, my friend Stefan, but he was a…