Just as she had once explored mountains, she began scouting the inner landscape. She started with Unity, a metaphysical church near her Marin County, California, home. It was a revelation, light-years away from the “Old Testament kind of thing I knew very well from my childhood.” The next stop was Native American spiritual practices. Then it was Buddhism at Marin County’s Spirit Rock Meditation Center, where she has attended a number of retreats, including one that required eight days of silence.