AFTER THE AWAKENING

A Field Manual for the Disoriented, Disillusioned, and Devoted

Introduction: The Fault Line

You are holding this book because something happened to you.

I do not know the specifics. Maybe it was a hospital room. Maybe it was a garage. Maybe it was a Tuesday at 2 p.m. when the ordinary cracked open and something unnameable poured through. Maybe it was slow, a months-long erosion of everything you thought was solid. Or…