Innovative, multi-layered, and collaborative, Journey Through an Open Door chronicles the steps along the heart-directed – and doorway opening – pathway of balancing the intuitive with the rational, the feminine with the masculine, the grounded with the cosmic.

Rooted in the beauty of nature’s year along the Maine coastline, Journey Through an Open Door beckons you into an expanded landscape inside yourself – a bridging of ordinary and non-ordinary realities.

The doorway opening core material – twenty commentaries – shared within the narrative of Journey includes: Remembering, Playfulness, Power Places, Guidance, Relationships, Where is the Future?, All Mirrors are Magic Mirrors, The Land of Enchantment, The Dawning. Further enhancing the magical process of mystic opening are:

Fifty-six keys to expansion

Annotated journal pages

from Journey Through an Open Door

With the heart of a poet, the temperament of an explorer, the openness of a child, and the balance of one who walks comfortably in two worlds – the inner and the outer – Tritia Hamilton provides the narrative which is the background for the core material of Journey Through an Open Door.

A mystic and seer from early childhood, Tritia’s pathway of balancing between the inner and the outer -- the mystical and the mainstream -- has been ongoing and intensely private.

Shortly after beginning dance at age 10, Tritia experienced a creative awakening in the form of kundalini rising. A strong connection with nature helped her retain balance between her inner experience and her perceptual shift of the outer concepts of reality. Together with dance and her love for nature, her expanding energy awareness was also enhanced by her yoga practice, begun in 1974.

Tritia’s eclectic background of discovery and expansion includes sojourns in close proximity to a number of "worlds" -- from the arts to the corporate, from the diplomatic and military to quiet coastal fishing villages, from rootedness in a beautiful landscape to her travels as an offshore sailor. Her experience as navigator, while in her twenties, continues to serve her as metaphor. "I am still navigating," she says with a smile, "among the worlds."

Within several lineages, Tritia is recognized as a medicine woman. "Moving Energy, Moving Earth" is the umbrella point-of-view under which she writes, consults, teaches, and facilitates ceremonial circles. Her celebratory Earthdance has been described as "joyful, attuned movement of energy in dance-form – harmonious with Earth rhythms, while also acknowledging the benevolent Spirit of a wider universe."

Tritia is currently writing and narrating a CD titled The Goddess and the Rainbow Bridge, a Dreamtime journey of enchantment whose inspiration flows directly from the final pages of Journey Through an Open Door. Forthcoming is a book titled Facing the Sun.

In the spaces between the risings and the settings of the sun, the colors have become more intense. Is this only my perception? Or is this "real"? I do not know. What I do know is that I am enjoying the dance of light which illumines the lush greens of the outer world landscape in June of this year. What I do know is that, for me, the most accurate way to perceive is feeling. And I am feeling change. Earth sings a song, and her tone is changing. Of this I am aware.

I feel Earth beckoning, calling to me clearly. Earth is singing to my heart a song of heart direction, and vitality -- a new vitality which stirs my cells. I am feeling this song -- intensely and profoundly. And it is my choice to enjoy it.

It was also my choice to cooperate with a journey -- living Journey Through an Open Door. The writing of this book has been supported by a benevolent rhythm, a rhythm which has been most apparent in June of each year when Summer arrives smiling. June shows me Earth is a garden and reminds me that I am here to enjoy this garden -- to notice, and to appreciate -- with an unlimited view.

Summer Solstice focuses the power of the garden. During the writing of Journey Through an Open Door, each Summer Solstice has tapped me on the shoulder and said,

"Pay attention. I have something new for you."

Early in August of 1997, I spoke with a new acquaintance while at a conference in

Vermont. After several brief conversations something we mentioned prompted a gesture which quite startled me. He reached into the chest pocket of his polo shirt and withdrew a small cobalt bottle. Handing it to me he said, "This is from the Chalice Well in Glastonbury. I collected it from the lion’s mouth fountain there during the Summer Solstice of last year. I knew I brought this with me for a reason. It’s yours."

Four weeks later I received a message from the same person. "I don’t know if you have cover art for your book, Journey Through an Open Door. I believe I have the image you would choose to use. I would be so pleased as well. The photo was taken in Glastonbury at the Chalice Well. The ‘open door’ is the entrance to ‘King Arthur’s Court’ with the healing baths on the right and Mary’s waterfall on center. I believe I took this picture for you over a year ago at the Summer Solstice."

Though Journey Through an Open Door was largely complete when I received his message, my new friend had not yet seen the manuscript. He certainly did not know that the book’s introduction had been written precisely at a Summer Solstice. Within two months his photograph was indeed accepted for the cover of the book you now hold in your hands.