The first time I tried to visualize "The 12 Gates" all that I knew was that I wanted to make a journey from here to....? There was a touch of the Dante's Divine comedy about it. The energy came from a love affair that I knew could lead no where, unless I came up with something extraordinary.. When Dante first saw Beatrice it was love at first sight. Dante thought of Beatrice as angelic with divine and noble qualities. When I found the image of C, I experienced something similar. Like Dante I trusted my love of C to enable me to penetrate the realm beyond space-time so we could experience the transcendence and blessedness of paradise. My problem was that I was happily married to someone else. Thus it was that I tried to create a different type of relationship with C, one full of symbolism and potential. Such a relationship seemed to be incredibly difficult and so the image of the solar barque, the ship able to traverse the twelve gates became very important to me. At first we made the journey ‘together’. I made I think, four ‘gates’ before our relationship fell apart. And so I threw away all my work and set about using a translation of The Amduaat instead. Because I was using the web as my notebook I didn’t give any consideration to loading times or any of the normal conventions required of a web-master. The journey through the twelve gates was made entirely out of what I found on the Web. I’d search for translations of each hour, and I’d search for music to ’journey’ the hour, music that would put me in the right frame of mind to ’see’ the images associated with the ’feel’ of each hour . I took my imagination very seriously ! And actually I found some of the hours quite disturbing, my one piece of advice for anyone doing anything similar is to use a ‘virtual‘ image of yourself, do not imagine it is you ‘journeying‘.