To amplify the benefits of ecophenomenology, this chapter reassesses the connections between The Tempest and Margaret Atwood’s novel Hag-Seed: Shakespeare’s The Tempest Retold (2016). Both texts harmonize the biological and the psychological, and they confirm humans’ reliance on storytelling to make sense of experience. Reading them in tandem offers fresh insights into the concept of the ego tunnel, formulated by philosopher Thomas Metzinger. Atwood’s novel outlines the intimacy of the self/world relationship, which The Tempest anticipates. Likewise, Hag-Seed expands on the vibrant interiorizing necessary to navigate the world, especially in its heightening of the prison-theme that registers more inchoately in Shakespeare’s play. Finally, the novel replicates the metadramatic properties of its source, calling upon a performance of The Tempest to enact revenge. Both texts thus confirm the taut linkage between esthetics and the neural activity that underwrites the self. Whereas an oppositional or transgressive energy infuses most Shakespearean adaptations, Hag-Seed evinces a recalcitrant fidelity to its source. This enables Atwood to imagine a version of humanness that stretches back to Shakespeare’s era and enfolds our own. This revved-up universality holds the key to Hag-Seed’s transformative potential.