Since the publication of Flight in January of this year, I’ve had an abundance of conversations around the growing normalcy of what was once considered paranormal, namely altered states of consciousness, the fluid nature of reality, NDEs/OBEs, Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs), and close encounters of various kinds. Through these conversations, two things have become clear to me:

I’m not nearly as isolated in my experiences as I thought, andAll of these experiences are like i...