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“Zachary gifts us with a vulnerable and vibrant storytelling of the most profound and timeless human journey. Riveting.”
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“A capitulation of the ultimate journey that few of us recognize within ourselves, and even fewer dare to traverse. Zachary describes a life that many of us dream for and the eventual realization that those fantasies never fill the wounds we carry, leaving us in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction. His tome will hit you where it hurts—and that’s a good thing.”
“This is truly the best description I’ve ever read of this process. The most beautiful writing.”
“Zachary takes us along on a hero’s journey on the path to enlightenment. This labor of love is fully consummated—thoughtful, intense and richly developed. Through sensitive and selective attention to detail he succeeds in evoking both the external, physical and the internal, mental context of the stations along the way. It is the next best thing to being there.”
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A Memoir of Dying Before You Die
To the psychosomatic rebels, skinless empaths, and spiritual eccentrics.
To the family scapegoats, societal pariahs, mystic artists, and wounded healers.
To the wild, unbridled souls who never truly belonged to this time and place and yet learned to do a convincing impression of a normal human being even though on the inside they were screaming.
You are the ones I love.
You who dance in the fire, flirt with the edge, and live in depths where most fear to tread.
You who descend time and again into the underworld to retrieve the bodies that we have all left – to laugh and dance as if death was but a silence between breaths.
I offer you another broken song of surrender to the divinity that is our inherent nature.
A story in the lineage of those who fought, stumbled, and swore – half-dead, half-mad – into the arms of Spirit.
Who were willing to tear out their hearts and eat them to find God.
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