Last week I inter­viewed Quak­er heal­er John Calvi for a Friends Jour­nal author chat. John has long worked with trau­ma vic­tims and those suf­fer­ing from AIDS and he tells part of that sto­ry in March’s “Car­ry­ing Light to Need.” One of the parts of this that fas­ci­nates me is his shar­ing of los­ing much of his spir­i­tu­al insight after a recent ill­ness. Reg­u­lar read­ers of this blog know I love sto­ries of Friends who are able to sense prompt­ings and to have that abil­i­ty and then lose it is a piece of the mys­tery of where it comes from. I’m remind­ed of Anne E.G. Nydam’s “The Con­duits” from the Novem­ber 2022 fic­tion issue; I can’t say more with­out spoil­ers but read it and you’ll see what I mean.