In this wide-ranging conversation, Hugh Leeman sits down with actor, writer, Zen priest, and activist Peter Coyote to trace a life shaped by outsiders, mentors, rebellion, and disciplined spiritual practice. Coyote reflects on his childhood in New York, the profound influence of Susie Nelson, and the early awareness of race, class, Jewish identity, and American hypocrisy that made him skeptical of power. He recounts the peyote experience that led Robert Peter Cohan to become Peter Coyote, his years with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Diggers, and the radical experiments in free food, free stores, communal life, and antiwar organizing that defined the counterculture. The interview moves through his acting and writing career, his work with Ken Burns, and his belief that storytelling can reach beyond ideology when it refuses simplification. C ...