Hero Path: Change begins with the ashes

"At the beginning of every spiritual realization stands death, in the form of 'dying to the world'…At the beginning of the work the most precious material which the alchemist produces is the ash." –Titus Burckhardt

As an author, I'm fascinated with change: what facilitates it and why people resist it. Change is the soul of storytelling. Resistance and delay are the stuff of page turners. If there aren't any problems or dangers or intrigues, then we don't have much of a story—or even a joke to ...