This book is an account of a spiritual adventure. The language of personal experience has been distilled into the language of analytical theory; rather than reminisce, I preferred to describe the intangible or spiritual world as I found it to be. But it remains an account of personal experience. So what the book lacks in background, I hope it makes up for in authenticity.

The adventure began as an attempt to create an indwelling or sense of communion between two people, between myself and another. A sense of communion demands mutual trust, or it becomes unbearable; and without that mutual trust most people would seek to escape from it as quickly as they could. The more complete the indwelling, the more complete the mutual trust must be, until in the limit nothing less than absolute trust will do.

So the adventure, begun as an attempt to create an indwelling, soon became an attempt to create absolute trust. This was not so easy, since it meant the elimination of sin in any shape or form. Indeed the creation of a sense of communion is the only way I have ever conceived of sin being eliminated, whether the communion be between God and man, or between mankind. The fact that it has to be eliminated, if the sense of communion is not itself to be ….