| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: was going on in the room around me, but no sensation of touch. I
thought that I was near death; when, suddenly, my soul became
aware of God, who was manifestly dealing with me, handling me, so
to speak, in an intense personal present reality. I felt him
streaming in like light upon me. . . . I cannot describe the
ecstasy I felt. Then, as I gradually awoke from the influence of
the anaesthetics, the old sense of my relation to the world began
to return, the new sense of my relation to God began to fade. I
suddenly leapt to my feet on the chair where I was sitting, and
shrieked out, 'It is too horrible, it is too horrible, it is too
horrible,' meaning that I could not bear this disillusionment.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: are the vast clay-brick ruins of a primal city whose name is not
remembered. As the ship drew into the harbour at evening the twin
beacons Thon and Thal gleamed a welcome, and in all the million
windows of Bahama's terraces mellow lights peeped out quietly
and gradually as the stars peep out overhead in the dusk, till
that steep and climbing seaport became a glittering constellation
hung between the stars of heaven and the reflections of those
stars in the still harbour.
The captain, after landing, made
Carter a guest in his own small house on the shores of Yath where
the rear of the town slopes down to it; and his wife and servants
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: I hurried into the next room. Yes, sure enough, there was a
similar mantel and fireplace there, similarly closed. In both
rooms the chimney flue extended well out from the wall. I
measured with the tape-line, my hands trembling so that I could
scarcely hold it. They extended two feet and a half into each
room, which, with the three feet of space between the two
partitions, made eight feet to be accounted for. Eight feet in
one direction and almost seven in the other--what a chimney it
was!
But I had only located the hidden room. I was not in it, and no
amount of pressing on the carving of the wooden mantels, no
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