"Montgomery's photographs capture the reality of Americans in crisis, in all our flawed, tragic, ridiculous glory." -Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty American Mirror is award-winning photographer Philip Montgomery's dramatic chronicle of the United States at a time of profound change. Through his intimate and powerful reporting and a signature black-and-white style, Montgomery reveals the fault lines in American society, from police violence and the opioid addiction crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the demonstrations in support of Black lives. Yet in his unflinching images, we also see moments of grace and sacrifice, glimmers of solidarity and tireless advocates for democracy. Like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans before him, Montgomery has made an unforgettable testament of a nation at a crossroads.

Two Roads East is a story told along the road less travelled, a daughter's ultimatum forces Sophie Vella, a Washington human rights lawyer, to make a bold move which begins an unexpected journey to the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. She's no ordinary tourist when she joins eleven others on the Mountain Adventures' bus at Paro airport; they're planning trekking, she's planning a coincidental meeting with a man she swore twenty years ago she'd never talk to again. Steve Andrews is manager of Two Roads East, Bhutan's largest foreign aid project, and he has no way of knowing that Sophie is in the country with a life-changing message for him. But that's only part of Steve's problem, he's just been accused of major fraud and faces life in the brutal Hangrila gaol unless he can find twenty million dollars missing from his road project. His impending gaol term becomes the perilous hitch in Sophie's clever plan, it leads her on a wild chase across mountain passes and through river valleys, and ultimately to the rediscovery of love lost long ago. For Steve, the inopportune becomes the opportune as Sophie is the only person who can help him retain his freedom, but in this land of mountains and mists and ancient traditions, that comes at a price. He must answer a question she's been waiting two decades to ask, and his answer may change both their lives.

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This work is a narrative unraveling of a process of human transformation that interrupts the psyche's propensity for creating the conditions for suffering. The self privileging of ego consciousness is posited as the origin of suffering. Relief from suffering is accomplished by bringing forward the content of the unconscious. The condition that allows the content of the unconscious to come forward is disrupting the boundary separating consciousness and the unconscious. As the boundary fails and ego consciousness is dethroned, unforeseen yet yearned for knowledge becomes available to consciousness thereby initiating the possibility for transformation. Implicit in this work are assumptions of self-motivation and self-organization that configure a theory of autopoiesis or self-making. Rendered from a myriad of fields including psychotherapeutic intervention, psychologically assessed business management practices, elite athletic performance and high risk professions this work offers a participatory methodological approach for those wishing to engage in growth and transformation and the disruption of human suffering.