Actually, I often don’t reply to the e-mail and letters sent to me at all because it is clear that the writing is the process and that no response is required. I’m being used as the target recipient in a process of Spiritual Autolysis in which my only role is to exist as an ideal in the student’s mind. This can be a very intense and accelerated process. It is not uncommon for a writer to send me a message every day apologizing for the one they sent the day before, embarrassed that they could have been so foolish, and enthusiastically sharing their newfound level of comprehension which, if all
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