part of breakfast. 10 pistachios 10 raisins 2 hard-boiled eggs milk with pure bee honey. this is what the one taxi driver told me to eat to make me feel happy.

last night another taxi driver gave me a book called ECKANKAR Ancient Wisdom for Today: How Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel Help You Find God. I asked him if it was a cult. He shrugged energetically and said, "That depends on how you define 'cult.'"

The book says you can often recognize the Astral Plane by the sound of the roaring sea.