The assumption behind her work is that a human life can be understood in terms of a narrative of its thresholds. She identifies eight of these key frontiers. Each one is sketched in the light of the wisdom of our tradition and named in such an immediate and effective way that lends itself to easy identification. The assumption behind this is that experience does tend toward concrescence; namely, everything does not lie simply side-by-side or remain blurred forever. There are times when life sharpens, things come in to focus and, gradually, you become aware that you are standing before a
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