"A friend of mine once said to me that one cannot read books on consciousness without it eventually takings its toll. It has been a bit over a year now since I started my studies at the University of Philosophical Research, and it surely has taken its toll: Towers have crumbled. Constructs have collapsed. Perceptions have been shaken.
"I have always been an advocate of change, but I did not understand the power of transformation. When I began my Masters in Transformational Psychology, I was in the midst of several life changes. The very first book I opened for my studies, in cunning synchronicity, gave me answers to several of them. Since, I have found more and more..."
William Blake's "Death's Door" (engraved by Luigi Schivonetti - 1743)
A visual metaphor for the opportunity of life, which presents us with choices leading in different directions. Blake explained, "The door is opening, that seems to make utter darkness visible: "Age," on crutches, hurried by a tempest into it." Above is the result of another path in life that leads to the realized and fully conscious individual, "seated in light and glory."
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