When the experience of Essence arose in my own process, I knew instinctively this was the next step. But, with no map, no orientation and no reflection - this understanding went dormant. Years later, I found Hameed's book and it just made sense. Here was an exquisite explanation and expose of what I had experienced on my journey so far and, of what had been missing or misunderstood. Essence and the Elixir of Enlightenment touched some part of me that had become weary and even despairing and ignited the flame once more. 'Coincidentally' I saw a tiny ad for a workshop on 'Essence' in Sydney and signed up without realising it was this same Work. This is how the Magic happens. My soul has always delighted in the description of the Work as providing a map to traverse our sacred inner territory and in the invitation of the Work to be 'in the World but not of it'. At my first retreat, I was so moved by the Presence of the Teacher and the radical clarity and cutting through of the teaching that I was gone, and, over the years...gone, gone and more gone.