Want Answers? You Have to Live Them

Even when it's uncomfortable

The Intention to Know (Fig. 19), Thought Forms, Annie Besant, 1905

Something strange happened when I wrote an essay about lightning for Catapult last year. After months of imagining the piece, I finally wrote it in October 2020. My ideas came together quickly, in three or four days. But after that initial burst of inspiration, the essay stalled out like …