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The Mystic Gate: The Sacred Portal of the Mysteries
The Mystic Gate The Sacred Portal of the Mysteries Author:James Clark The Mystic Gate is about the author's discovery of the sacred entrance into the inner world of the unconscious where all spiritual experience takes place. It begins with the author's first trip to India in 1968, which culminates in a discovery of spiritual awakening. Returning home to California in 1969, the author soon discovered that to mainta... more »in and increase this 'new consciousness', he had to choose between the way of the world and the way of the spirit. Upon returning to Europe that same year, he soon realized that it was easy to identify those forces of the world he had to struggle against, but it was another task entirely to find the way within to which he had been called. Spending that summer in Amsterdam, and descending into a state of increasing confusion and despair, the author decided to return to India to continue his Quest. In India the author at last discovered what he had been looking for, the mystical entrance into the secret otherworld of myth that lies within. The book concludes with a vision of the 'wasteland' of this world, and a look at the counterculture created by the psychedelic experience that began as a fellowship of spiritual discovery, but which ended with the realization that each person ultimately had to find their own Way.« less