This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared
Chapter One
The Soul Stretches Out to Contain Itself
A MAP OF THE JOURNEY
YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH THE WORLD HALF ASLEEP. It isn't just that
you don't know who you are and that you don't know how or why you
got here. It's worse than that; these questions never even arise. It
is as if you are in a dream.
Then the walls of the great house that surrounds you crumble and
fall. You tumble out onto a strange street, suddenly conscious of
your estrangement and your homelessness.
A great horn sounds, calling you to remembrance, but all you can
remember is how much you have forgotten. Every day for a month, you
sit and try to remember who you are and where you are going. By the
last week of this month, your need to know these things weighs upon
you. Your prayers become urgent.
Then the great horn sounds in earnest one hundred times. The time of
transformation is upon you. The world is once again cracking through
the shell of its egg to be born. The gate between heaven and earth
creaks open. The Book of Life and the Book of Death are opened once
again, and your name is written in one of them. ... read full excerpt from This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation ebook
