Not Home Right Now

“DO NOT LET YOUR THOUGHTS WANDER,” says a woman’s familiar voice. She is speaking into a microphone in an isolation booth, her mouth pressed so close to the sensitive diaphragm that we seem to feel more than hear the mutual caress of her lips as they savor each distinct syllable of an English translation of a fourteenth-century theological text on the Buddhist afterlife. This voice wants to guide us past fearful passions and worldly attachments and into an ecstatic beyond. In d