Memoir forthcoming.

"And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.”
— Denis Johnson

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

― Alan Wilson Watts

But it's hard to trust people with egos, hard to avoid such communities becoming cults or just muddy little eddies of unrealized potential dominated by toxic people. Which is to say, I don't know if such a community exists or can exist. And I'm not sure it's best to isolate in that way, anyway.

Comes down to LaFleur's capacity to self-reflect, self-evaluate, and hold himself accountable. If he can't do that, this problem doesn't get solved. If he can (and he seems like someone who can), then they'll adapt.

Satan's shoes, worn infinitely, by me.