On March 17th, a seven-ton space rock broke apart over Ohio. A week later, a guy named Jeff had a dream that told him exactly where to go to find a piece of it.

Nothing about this meteorite is special other than that Jeff really really wanted to hold a piece of space in his hands, and a dream showed him where it was. But what about all the people who dream about something for years and nothing ever happens? Why do some prayers get answers and not others?

We don’t have the answer. But the question gets us to suffering as a teacher, to the Hebrew origin of the word “Satan” (which just means impediment), and to the idea that maybe wanting something your whole life and never getting it is its own form of divine expression.

Also: this is Tom’s last episode.

He’s leaving the show to pursue something that’s, in his words, something calling him imperiously. He read us the opening of The Wind in the Willows to explain why. He says the show transformed him.

Likewise, Tom.

And the show will go on. Our mission will be the same: to joyfully explore all the things they said weren’t real.

And in the open epilogue…

How an abusive inner critic won’t let you accept compliments

The relationship between shame, addiction, and problem-solving

Why holding two contradictory truths at the same time is the path to a higher vibration existence

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