In this episode, I speak with comic book artist and author Yumi Sakugawa. Yumi’s book, Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With The Universe has made it onto a couple of my book recommendation lists. It’s a gem. It takes abstract and sometimes esoteric spiritual concepts and puts them into simple, playful language.
A good portion of our conversation is centered around one of the ideas in that book: having cake and tea with your demons. This is a metaphor for the spiritual and philosophical idea that, instead of avoiding the dark or undesirable parts of yourself, you should face them…