6Step-6Prepare for change

DOI: 10.4324/9781003170402-7

Sit in a room and read—and read and read.

And read the right books by the right people.

Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a

nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

(Joseph Campbell)

At step-6, we are no longer in limbo; we have decided, and what we must do now is prepare for what that decision will bring. We are in the new world, but we have yet to learn the ways of the new world. Step-6, then, is the prequel to the main event of the next phase and the trials and tribulations that lie ahead. Step-6 in many ways is a mini-respite from the intensity of what just happened. We are packing our bags for the climb, for the adventure we have decided to take, and we are ...

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