Just as the rainbow has seven colors, but many shades, so the Rainbow Climb has seven main stages, but many steps. To illustrate, I post little story examples, based not on outer, but inner reality. For those not accustomed to symbolic story-telling, I add just a hint of analysis at the start, to show there is more here than meets the I.

At an early stage of the climb, we usually progress by learning the hard way. If we don't "get it" that our understanding is harmful, Experience will show us that a Law prevails. What goes round comes back to hurt us, as in this scene called, Butterflies Are For Battering, Or, A Lesson In Cruelty.

At the next stage, we are asked to pause and examine our understanding. Now who has never made of the heart a harlot? Who in their heart has not slept with a lie, and not been made pregnant by that lie? And who has not, at some point, been called to pause, and to reflect—as in this scene in a quiet corner of the Harlot Hotel, called Mirror.

Next, having gained a broader understanding, we may feel compelled to broadcast it. The part that's "got it" needs to convince the rest of the psyche. But old habits die hard. It's easier to evangelize, to try and change the world before we ourselves are transformed. In that case, the inner resistance is met out there, as opposition, power struggle, and, a failure unexpected in common hours. I'll soon post a further episode here. (NOTE: This material is an excerpt from a work-in-progress)

Jumping to a more visionary stage, here are some poems from a suite written for the Rainbow Climb.

For a brief movie on shifting from left brain control to letting a deeper part express in our art, click here.