The Deep Zone

This book is dedicated to Elizabeth Burke Tabor, who makes everything possible.

There is as much biomass beneath the earth’s surface as there is above it.

—Thomas Gold, PhD, Cornell University

They believed in a reality with many layers. The portal between life and where the dead go was important to them.

—William Saturno, PhD, Boston University

Only the Devil has no inner demons.

—ancient Cuicatec saying