Dawn Treader

About a year ago, my therapist recommended that I read the Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis. It's part of the Chronicles of Narnia series. I was visiting my sister-in-law SG's library today and I saw some of the other Narnia books on the shelf - which reminded me of this book and one passage in particular. In the book, Eustace (an annoying little boy) gets turned into a dragon. The experience gives him a better appreciation for his friends and for the importance of being nice to them. After Eustace becomes a boy again, he tells Edmund (one of his friends) about his transformation from dragon back to boy. Note: It's a lengthy passage so I created a seperate page rather than post the text here.

Aside from the obvious Biblical allusions (which permeate all of the Narnia books), the thing I found significant about this passage is that as part of our personal transformations, we must strip away multiple layers of imperfections. Most of the time, we think we've made a lot of progress and then discover that we didn't tear deep enough. On some level, we probably know we should go deeper but it's too painful so we just scratch the surface. Genuine transformation, however, requires the courage to go "right to [the] heart" and have "it hurt worse than anything [you've] ever felt". Kind of reminds me of Wilber and his opinions regarding transformation.