So here you are, visiting something called Portals. What are they - you don't know. Do you want to take the time to explore the experience? Be careful -- you may meet some resistance, the natural resistance of the conscious mind. Because the conscious mind doesn't know what it has not yet experienced, it resists the company of the Unknown. It prefers to cling to what is known, what is familiar.

Of course, what is known is from your past. Staying in what is known simply reproduces the past. But, what if the conscious mind discovered a way to feel safe inside what our Western culture has misrepresented as the terrifying and dangerous Unknown? There IS a way and Quantum Mind invites you to journey there with us. We encourage the welcoming of the Unknown so as to create our lives from our potential rather that from our limiting past.

The Portals as they are presented here are really different approaches or invitations to experience the Whole, individualized Self. Each Portal provides a unique perspective on the Self while at the same time connects and reinforces the other Portals. It can be likened to viewing a statue from different angles. The statue may appear very different from the northern angle than the southern angle. And you may prefer the silhouette as viewed from the west far more than when viewed from the east. In this scenario, the statue has not changed, you have.

These Portals offer us tools and methods for what Quantum Mind calls the "Return Trip." This is the most important trip of our life because it is the purpose of our life. Let us explain. Our soul once existed in oneness with God. It had no object - it was the ALL IN ALL. Then from some sacred impulse, the soul went off on its own to gain a learning that it perceived as being necessary. It became individualized, with specific knowledge, traits and abilities.

The soul was still aware of its connection to Source, but now the particularized self that was anchored in the body, perceived a separation had occurred. This was the beginning of duality and the tendency of the particularized self to look outside itself, to externals, as its source and safety. This was the trip outward.

The Return Trip is very similar to the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son. The notion of separation isn't a distraction anymore for we remember that our soul is still connected to God and has actually never been disconnected. The Return Trip is a journey inward to our Source. And each movement we make toward Source is met with celebration and welcoming for that which was lost, is found; that which had been forgotten, realized.