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A hiker, lost and injured in the mountains in the

midst of a

storm, comes upon a small chapel.

Carved on the wall

are

some messages in an

alphabet he has never seen

before. An

old,

bearded monk arrives and introduces

himself as

the

Keeper of the Knowledge.

“The Knowledge? You mean those carvings on the wall?”

“Those inscriptions convey the core of the Knowledge.”

“But what IS the Knowledge?”

He peered closely at me, and I felt he was somehow looking
through me. Then he said, “The Knowledge enables one to—”
He cut himself off and shook his head. “No, I’ll not say more. Not
now. Not until . . . not until you’re certain you want to know more.”

“No? Why not?”

“Because if you once absorb and learn to live by the Knowledge,
then your life will change. Forever. If you absorb the Knowledge,
if you make it fully a part of how you view the world and how you
live in it, if you live as the Knowledge teaches, then, yes, your
life will change forever: You will live better and happier and more
productively.”

My ankle was too painful to stand on. I slumped back into a
wooden pew.

“Change my life? These carvings? How?”

“The Knowledge provides a way of taking active control of the
events and circumstances you encounter in life.”

My face must have shown that I didn’t understand. He went on:
“In other words, the Knowledge provides a methodology for
joining the Reality Tracks that lead to beneficial outcomes.”

I felt my head spin. “Methodology? Reality Tracks? Beneficial
Outcomes?” In a sentence, it seemed we’d jumped from the
medieval to the world of high-tech. Was he a Harvard M.B.A.
disguised as a 12th Century monk?

“Perhaps you are thinking that a few words carved on an old
church wall can have no real impact?”

“Something like that,” I responded, trying to be polite to the old
monk. He’d saved my life, after all, and it was his chapel, his little
monastery, his whole world.

“Einstein wrote even less—E=MC2—and changed the way the
universe was perceived.”

“But E=MC2 was . . .” I groped for a way to express it “. . . was
only a symbolic way of expressing a much larger concept.”

“Then why do you assume these messages convey any less?”