Follow an Idiot into the Woods

About this book

What happens when a boy runs into the woods to escape a storm...and never really stops running?Follow an Idiot into the Woods is the origin story of the Society of Divine Inner Connection-told not by a founder, but by the mosquito who has been following him since the beginning.This is not a self-help book.It is something rarer.A true account of how a culture grows from almost nothing.A desk carving in sixth grade.A joke shouted across a mountain.A cape made from an old T-shirt.A walking stick planted at a summit no one else had named.David Kenneth Swinson grew up in a house where peace came and went like a relative who never stayed for dinner. The woods above Big Bear Lake became his first medicine.What began as escape slowly became invitation.Fire circles.Night hikes.A rag-tag club called SDIC.A community that formed the way trails form-not by design, but by enough people walking the same directionlong enough that the mountain finally remembered the path.Part memoir, part cultural origin story, part spiritual journey, this book follows the trail from childhood in Big Bear to ceremony in the desert...from a house called the Love Templeto a jungle temple in Mexico grounded in Truth, Simplicity, Gratitude, and Love.Along the way, a mosquito comes to innerstand something important.The temple was never the building.It was always walking inside the people.For readers of Mark Nepo, Brené Brown, and anyone who has ever felt more at home in the woods than in the world.