The Five Pillars of Power - A Companion to The Gate, a novel

Introduction: From Fiction to Freedom

Billy spent his childhood staring at a broken gate. Split open by a winter hurricane, it yawned wide in his backyard—jagged, menacing, never fixed. His father promised to order the parts. The parts never came. And the gate remained open, a gaping wound in the fence line that should have kept him safe.

What Billy didn't know then was that the gate was never meant to be repaired. It was meant to teach him something essential about the architecture of human survival: some things break open not to destroy us, but to show us the way through... This book sheds light on how to do this—and why.