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Pete.
    “In a way, yes, but not the same. I think the gates will be enough to get you going. You won’t have to go to hell, but I think . . . no, I know the gates are the way for you to begin your awakening. I can take you through the gates,” said John, excitedly, as he brought his hands together, “And I will be your gatekeeper.”
    The two men fell into a relatively lengthy conversation about the gates. During the discussion, John was able to devise a plan for Peteto travel through the gates as a way for him to begin his awakening process. As John began to deconstruct the gates, he made an interesting realization and went to fetch a copy of the King James Bible. It had been a long time since he opened his Bible, and he wiped dust off the cover as he walked. He remembered the creation story in the Book of Genesis, but he wanted a more accurate reference as it related to his personal experience with the gates. Something about the story and the gates meshed for him.
    As John began to highlight the key elements of the creation, he realized the story did align with the gates. The first gate represented the earth as it was first formed, followed by water, or the dividing of the seas from the land. Gate three was fire, which represented the volcanic creation of lands and the prelude to atmosphere, or air, which was gate four. Gate five was life, all life, not just man, but every living thing on the face of the earth. Life, as expressed through man and woman, brought forth an awakening of the physical senses, as in sound, gate six, and sight, or light, gate seven. John knew that sound and light represented more than man’s physical abilities, they also represented intelligence, or a desire for knowledge and self-awareness. Lastly, the eighth gate, the stars, represented man’s interest in God and the heavens.
    With the eight gates more easily defined, John used his journal entry to better detail the positive and negative of each gate. He found that each gate had at least one recognizable strength and weakness, or positive and negative attribute. The negative was a distraction to self-mastery and limited growth or hindered the path to enlightenment. The positive, when leveraged against the negative, offered the strength to overcome the distraction and allow progress through the particular gate.
    John discovered that the earth gate was about survival and fear; water, was passion and guilt; fire, agency and shame; air, love and grief; life, joy and anger; sound, truth and lies; light, insight and illusion; and the stars, heavenly energy and earthly attachment. The patterns were clear and easy to recognize once he filtered out the visuals,and he was surprised at their simultaneous simplicity and complexity. They were, in essence, finely balanced steps of mental and emotional progression; a literal gateway to awakening.
    They discussed the differences between the traveler’s and the gatekeeper’s roles in the journey through the gates, and both men realized that many of the associative feelings and descriptors needed to successfully pass the gates required a script, or a narrative, as a reference. Though John himself had traveled the gates, he wasn’t entirely confident that he could take Pete through them without the use of notes, so he spent the next hour and a half writing out a rough narrative for each of the eight gates.
    While John wrote, Pete left to wake Bonnie for breakfast and said he’d relieve John as soon as he was done. The smell of Marissa’s fresh tortillas filled the house, and John’s mouth watered at the thought of chewing on a fresh, hot, flour tortilla that was slathered with melted butter. Paul’s wife had proven her value to the group many times over. She was not only a great cook, but she was hard working, organized, and entirely selfless. Given Paul’s quirky personality, he wondered how he managed to end up with Marissa. They seemed so different, but he knew that sometimes different just worked.