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A Mirror in a Mirror - by Michael Kaufmann

I am very pleased to introduce a guest post by my Reiki teacher, Michael Kaufmann. Michael has a lighthearted approach to teaching which make his workshops thoroughly enjoyable; whether it is a Reiki Attunement or a weekend seminar on Japanese healing techniques and meditation.  When I was a child I accidentally discovered a way to contemplate infinity using only two mirrors, one handheld and one on the wall. I was wondering what would happen if I looked at a mirror reflected in another mirror.  I played around and then suddenly there was a moment when an endless tunnel of reflected mirrors opened up, a window into infinity. In my excitement, I took my father's tripod and mounted the handheld mirror onto it, trying to make it as still as possible to make the tunnel as deep as possible. As the chain of reflections fused into a dark vanishing point in the "distance", I felt that this dark point was a piece of the same infinity that I saw when I looked at s...