Crisis and initiation

When things go wrong they are probably going right

Like the Phantom of the Opera in Gaston Leroux’s eponymous novel, the initiate moves through secret tunnels, not of the opera house, but of the mind. They are enveloped in a cloak that conceals them from ordinary eyes and masks their faces, hiding from the uninitiated the scars that have marked their souls as the price of crossing the threshold of chang…