Over the course of the next decade, School began to inhabit me in unexpected ways. I got involved in artistic and physical endeavors that I’d never tried before; I devoted substantial time and resources to recruiting for School; I traveled with School; I formed enduring relationships with other students and saw less of my “life friends” and family; I developed a deep relationship with Sharon, becoming part of her inner circle; I started a family; my mindset, my worldview, and my sense of myself began to conform with the Work’s teachings. My private law practice flourished. My inner and outer lives began to merge with School. Certain of the secrets, mysteries, and intrigues of School were revealed and still more were presented—it was like for each revelation there were to be two more mysteries. I fell deeper under the spell of Sharon Gans.