Empty Bowl: Pursuing Truth in a Messy World by Rikki West

The Empty Bowl: Pursuing Truth in a Messy World is Rikki West’s memoir of searching for truth and a sense of belonging. It follows questions that began in her Catholic childhood through scientific study, a Silicon Valley career and the work of sobriety.

West recounts encounters with meditation, yoga, Buddhist practice, therapy and other approaches before reconsidering her assumptions about God and the self. These are personal experiences, not instructions for drug use or a universal recovery program.