Enlightenment is a process for most of us, starting with an opening and ending...who knows? This book offers metaphors to illustrate the stages of awakening. Some of these metaphors are exalted and resonate with words and images we associate with the divine. Many others have a surprising and decidedly unexpected association to anything we might normally see as spiritual. All of them point toward the higher and deeper growth toward wholeness and the awareness of the divine nature of all things.