Changes

Let the Tower fall

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Once upon a time, I spent 10 days in silence at a Vipassana meditation retreat. A white-robed guru/sage sat on a raised stage at the front of the airy white hall and over the speaker system a voice intoned, changes, changes, changes.

Some changes come with a bang. They’re the Tower in the Tarot. Sudden, cataclysmic, consciousness-blowing, pattern revealing, life-changing changes from which…