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a cosmic, comic “Three Stooges” skit! Our three frightened friends had twisted every word of Gaston’s presentation into a fanatical, ironclad indictment of the whole Montreal group and their motives. Chris and I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. Confused and bombarded by our friends’ frenzy, we alternated between reacting with horror and humor. Certainly, it wasn’t funny to witness our close friends in such a state of panic and terror. However, the extremely righteous and sanctimonious way they denounced the whole philosophy of the Montreal group verged on the absurd and ridiculous.

I might add here that throughout my subsequent decades of working with people undergoing spiritual initiations, I have discovered that the personality will often project an illusion of “evil” upon any person, event or source of information that rocks its boat, threatening its insulated, controlled world. I have also found that what people fear most is authentic love, which often comes in the form of radical truth telling.

Chris and I, conversely, were experiencing a spiritual healing and awakening from the initiation in Montreal. Our friends’ fearful overreaction to the miraculous spiritual gifts of Gaston was challenging us to evaluate our experience even more thoroughly. Yes, Chris and I were also freaked out on a psychological level. However, we viewed our mental resistance as a normal, expected reaction to a mind-blowing experience. Our everyday paradigm was busted wide open by Gaston. The familiar security of our mainstream perceptual framework was shattered. Stretching our cultural envelope beyond its limits, we were thrust way outside our box of normal experience.

Contrary to our three

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