Explore spiritual emergence as a rite of passage through the myth of Inanna and the stages of ending, transition, and renewal. Part 3 examines how spiritual crisis can bring disorientation, transformation, and a deeper sense of purpose.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside! Rumi1 Living in New York City was its own kind of spiritual practice; a maximalist, ecstatic, tantric whirl that I had no preliminaries for. My outer world never stopped moving; between bedbugs, the art scene, landlords who didn't speak my language, commuting from Brooklyn to Manhattan to work under the table to make rent, and trying to write