The Stages do not heal us. We catalyse healing. We the student ultimately have to do the true healing work ourselves.

The Stages do not heal us. We catalyse healing. We the student ultimately have to do the true healing work ourselves. We must consciously identify our fears, trace them to their traumas dating back to childhood, feel the terrors and horrors surrounding them – and the ugliness of their externalised manifestations – and have the strength and willingness to move forward through them anyhow. We provide the engine, the gasoline, and the driving, and the stages study, an specialist of the inner terrain, just helps to read the map. And when the road gets rough and rocky, which it invariably does, there’s nothing like a good map reader.