We had a workshop yesterday afternoon here in my home in London (23/10/10). 16 people came. I found myself describing the pointing experiment as 'leading people up the garden path'! The path, from the feet upwards, leads to a threshold, the 'bottom line', the place where your body disappears into vastness... Here is a gateway. Step through that gateway and you enter the greatest of palaces. Douglas Harding sometimes talked about these experiments being humble gateways. He was brought up a Christian and sometimes used Christian imagery - Christ, God in human form according to that tradition, was born in a manger, in the humblest of conditions. Well, the source has now given us these humble experiments, so easily dismissed as 'children's games', as gimmicks - what could be simpler than pointing your finger, or easier for society to dismiss as silly if not stupid, and certainly not deep! - certainly they could never lead us to God... But put aside this social derision, our embarassment, our 'adult knowing' and 'maturity' and employ these humble pointers, and discover that they really do guide us all the way 'up the garden path' into vastness, into our eternal Home, into our One Self.