Steve Forest is admitted to the hospital after a bad accident and subsequent near-death experience near the summit of Mt. Everest.Within three hours of arriving: * A doctor informs him he'll be a paraplegic the rest of his life. He's been a high-altitude mountaineer;* His wife serves him with divorce papers in a screaming fight in his hospital room. With the encouragement of the Light, he'd returned to his life from his near-death experience to be a better husband and father;* The widow of his best friend, Dan, confronts him with Dan's death on the mountain. He doesn't know what to tell her;* He continues to be deeply confused by immense conflict between his 'old self' and an identification with a 'new self' emerging from his recent experience.Steve doesn't know what to do. Then Jack appears .

and the adventure, and the dialogue begins.