Editing Spiritual Teachers for Grammatical Honesty

Cancelling the “First Person Plural Omniscient”

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This elegant experiment — and its haunting consequences — arose out of a conversation I had with my partner and a mutual friend (both psychotherapists) after the death of our late friend Michael Stone, a young Buddhism and yoga teacher who died suddenly of a fentanyl overdose, while struggling with…