A Transformative Adventure

“The labyrinth is thoroughly known…where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence.” —Joseph Campbell

The drafts below discuss my hike of the John Muir Trail at age 16. It was a key experience for both my development into adulthood and—much later—the development of Mindful Biology. (Entries should be read in numerical order.)