Table of Contents

An Introductory Meditation - Part One - Coming through the Woods . . . - The Sea Today - Why We Need Coloured Periods - Copy? - Gloria - Yellow Woman - Touching Up Eternity - Heaven Written Low - The Joys of a Shelfless Life . . . - Night Climbing by Grail Light - An Alchemical Aperitif - Beyond Measure - Hatless in the Rain - Dragon Paint - The Picture Window - The Mummy's Curse - Helen Keller at the Beach - Part Two - A Gift of Blindness for Our Time - The Mystery Question of Parzival - Creating Out of Nothing - A Last Word: No Mistake About It . . .

About the Author

Learning to read at age five from a young adult book on evolution, having out-of-body experiences as he grew older and waking up as an adolescent with the certainty that he had a soul, gave a budding Michael Ridenour a growing sense of reality that culminated with a Christ-experience in his middle teens. But he didn't know what to do with any of it. A few degrees in physics, math, French and English literature left him intellectually richer but clueless. A two-year stint teaching English to Buddhist monks in Thailand, though enormously satisfying, still fell short. Then he discovered the spiritual perceptions of esoteric Christianity and spiritual science given by Rudolf Steiner. This grounded him in esoteric literature and enabled him to complete a book on the Templar architecture of Chartres Cathedral (Hermetica Press, 2009). Then, several years later, the same stream flowed into his book, The Greatest Gift Ever Given (Temple Lodge 2017). He continues his career as a writer and Waldorf teacher in Southern California.