This memoir invites us in to the very hard work of not just acting our stories out but remembering them, examining them and finding both the tragedy and hope available in our own stories.

I found it interesting how this reflected his healing, as his story became more straightforward and less fractured. In this conversation, Blaine describes his process of finding the goodness in his story, and how embracing his story allowed him to express his creativity more fully. In some ways, we don’t see ourselves, and I have said this many times, we don’t have the capacity, even when we’re on Zoom, and we can see our own face on the other side, we don’t really see our own face without bias, without judgment. I could definitely see how this might cause some struggles for those who have been experienced similar trauma! And, I think what I, what I keep thinking about with regard to curiosity, is, well, let me take that again.Desperate to find hope, he gave up a budding career and took a major life detour where he discovered that facing his past was the key to unlocking a new kind of creativity.

Former creative director for Willow Creek Community Church, Hogan is currently a full-time filmmaker.But it connected me back to the places that I thought that I had, made peace with and realized that I had not, because where I was going was so directly connected to where I had come from. Through powerful personal revelations, he invites you to take up the practices of radical imagination and real creativity so you can tell a better story with your life. Dan: Well, it is a sweet gift to be, with a brilliant, truly imaginative author who also happens to be a dear friend whom I don’t see often enough. It has been taboo for so long for men to speak out about how they experience violation and harm; but here is Blaine, setting a much needed precedent that tells a tale of pain and redemption. Exit the Cave takes a candid exploration into the reincarnation trap, by unpacking a plethora of diverse information from ancient texts and near death experiences, to movies such as Dark City and Westworld in an attempt to deconstruct and understand Plato's Cave allegory.