In Gifts of the Spirit: Prophecy, Automatism and Discernment, Los Angeles-based performance artist Ron Athey "completes" his memoir ("Gifts of the Spirit") in ecstatic communion with 16 writers, six typists, musicians, a hypnotist, and vocalists who speak in tongues. Athey has been writing his memoir since 1980, when he moved away from the Pentecostal and […]