Here’s the other approach: Instead of declaring war on Alzheimer’s, embrace it. Take the whole bloody mess as your dharma. Take it as your new calling. Name it. Claim it. Live the experience of Alzheimer’s consciously, fully. Talk about it. Investigate it. Look high and low for the meaning in it. Experience it. Open to the possibility—yes, even to the slim possibility—that this ordeal could be some kind of crazy initiation into wisdom. The Tao te Ching says, “If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.”
