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as achieving a greater visionary sense of one’s
potential for abundance, not to mention,
gratitude for all one may already have. And
to be sure, that abundance isn’t a reflected
in the proliferation of material goods. Rid-
dell refers to a message too often imparted by
media about the need for bigger, faster cars,
designer fashions, and other material goods.
“I saw a T-shirt that said, ‘He who dies with
the most toys, wins.’ I think when we reach
that point of being on our death-bed, we
don’t spend much time thinking about all
this stuff we’ve collected over our lives, rath-
er, we think about the relationships we’ve
shared with other people,” says Riddell. To
his point, the curriculum at Transformation-
al Arts College includes courses which en-
able one to be enhanced and enriched with
a greater perspective to beneficially impact
one’s interactions with others, with one’s self,
and the universe at-large.
The training is also fundamental to
bridging an alternative understanding in
mental health counseling. The psychothera-
pist, for instance, would move patients grad-
ually toward a point of understanding as to
what could be learned from whatever trau-
matic experience they may have endured. At
