The late spiritual teacher Ram Dass once wrote, “What I’ve noticed in most of the institutions I’ve been part of is that for the first few years it’s very exciting, and everybody feels challenged and at the living edge. Then everybody figures out how to socialize the game, how to appear to be changing and not actually changing and everybody, because they have children and families now, has to get insurance policies… They’ve got to make the thing stable, and that sort of tempe