🎸 How Tom Petty Healed My Life by Helping Me Change My Dream of It > Likes and Comments

Over the ensuing years (which, being a music buff, I tended to label “Shoegaze,” “Grunge,” “Hip-hop,” etc.), people tended to get more and more—not less and less—dualized in sneakier and sneakier ways as the collapse of the Soviet Union had no measurable impact on my own life.

But another event from 1989 actually did, at the very least, memorably shift my perspective on—and experience of—this slippery “reality” we’re deeply conditioned to take for granted.

I’m talking about the release of American rock star Tom Petty’s iconic song about dreaming big and living large in a world dominated by facts and figures, “Runnin’ Down a Dream.”

“What makes Sol’s writing work isn’t that he’s a guru talking down to you. It’s the opposite, he’s an approachable guide, helping you unlearn what we’ve all been taught about ourselves, individually and collectively. This isn’t a book of abstract theory, and it never wanders off into esoteric elitism or ungrounded mysticism. It’s a genuine handbook, practical in the best possible sense for elevating your consciousness and taking your power back.” —Emma Lyons, founder of Trauma Matrix