One sibling in my family was nearly destroyed by religion. The clergy in our diocese committed a monstrous crime, the scourge of sexual abuse known to many Catholic communities. Another sibling was made whole by religion, after losing a son to murder and finding that no one but God could salve her wounds. There are no clean lines in our clan.

On the trail, I repeatedly heard the term deep walking. My fellow pilgrims were an odd assortment of spiritual stragglers of a certain age. But there were also many young people. And for the young, as I heard it described, a pilgrimage is a way to do religion.

At a Benedictine monastery in a tiny village in northern France, it was strangely moving to eat dinner in utter silence among a handful of men whove shed all material comforts to engage in rigorous daily aerobics of the soul. I missed Wi-Fi, Twitter, emails and endless digital updates, until I didnt.

At a stopover in Laon, a city of shimmering stone 300 feet above the plains of Picardy in France, I tried to fathom the power of miracles. About 80 percent of Americans believe in them. As a pilgrim, I had to dampen down my doubts, to try to see things in another dimension. Miracles are not contrary to nature, as St. Augustine wrote, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

I was less moved by one of the high shrines of atheism, in Langres, the hometown of the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot. The town is just one step short of being Diderot Disneyland, which only the French could pull off. But after deep immersion in his beautiful, busy mind, I still felt a bit empty. Religion is story, a narrative about a force much greater than us, enigmatic by nature. Atheism has trouble telling a story.

In the Swiss Alps, a permanent prayer started to honor Maurice, said to be the first black saint, has been recited day after day, year after year, century after century by a rotating band of monks known as the Sleepless Ones. The martyred Maurice, who was from North Africa, is revered. His modern comeback has much to do with the vibrancy and growth of Christianity in Africa at a time when Christianity in Europe is dying off. If present trends hold, within 20 years Africa will have more Catholics than the Continent.

At Great St. Bernard Pass, the high point of the Via Francigena, at 8,114 feet, I was fascinated by a priest of 40 years who still struggled with his faith. Doubts are allowed by God, said this man who introduced himself as Father John of Flavigny, a onetime medical student. Its a bit like training for sports. If you only ride a bicycle with the wind at your back, thats not going to help you. You need to ride your bike against the wind.

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Like the rest of Destiny 2's raids, the Garden of Salvation, will test your team's skills and coordination. Shadowkeep's first of the super-tough six-player activities raid sends you to Destiny 1's Black Garden, home of the Vex. And once you hit the Power level cap of 950, fighting through the raid and earning its rewards is one of the only ways to continue to advance, thanks to its Pinnacle drops.

Garden of Salvation is a very complicated activity and will require you and your teammates to know and fulfill your roles along the way. We've broken down every single encounter you'll fight through in the guide below, which will tell you how to handle both bosses, as well as where to find the raid's two hidden chests. While you're in Garden of Salvation, you can also grab some hidden chests, as well as Divinity, the raid Exotic trace rifle--but you'll need to complete a bunch of puzzles to do so. Here's everything you need to know to invade the Black Garden, kill the Consecrated and Sanctified Minds, and beat Garden of Salvation.

As you come over a hill at the start of the raid, you'll see a giant Vex harpy seemingly consuming a minotaur. That's the Consecrated Mind, and you'll be dealing with it for a lot of the raid. In this first encounter, you can't kill the boss--instead, you need to chase it (or maybe it chases you) to the end of the area in order to complete the fight. The struggle here is that you're working against the clock to move forward, because the boss produces an object called a Voltaic Overload at regular intervals, and if one sits on the ground for more than a few seconds, it'll explode and wipe out your whole team.

To stop the boss from killing you, someone on your team needs to pick up each of the Voltaic Overload charges when it hits the ground. When you pick up a charge, it starts a timer on your screen, and until that timer runs out, you can't pick up another Overload without dying from it. Thus, you need one team of at least two or three players to take turns picking up the Overloads.

Your second team of players has a different job: charge forward and open the path through the encounter. You do this with a special mechanic unique to the raid. If you look around the area with the Consecrated Mind, you'll see a glowing cube floating in the air, and a forcefield at the far right side of the room with a plus sign-shaped object in the middle. If you shoot the cube and stand near it, you'll see a line of energy extend from the cube to your character. Bring another person nearby, and the line will jump from you to them, creating a chain. The idea here is to make a chain from the cube to the plus sign (we'll call it a "lock" from here on out). The energy from the cube will open the lock, bringing down the forcefield. It's worth noting that while you're making the chain, you're "tethered," which means you can't shoot or use Supers. You can switch the cube on and off by shooting it to avoid accidentally wandering too close and having it render you unable to defend yourself.

So while one team of players picks up Voltaic Overloads, the second team opens the first gate and races into the next room. There, the job is to clear out all enemies. Watch out for Cyclopes in particular, which can one-shot your team from great distances--make them your top priority. You'll also need to pack Overload Rounds to deal with a couple of Overload Minotaurs throughout this encounter, so make sure both teams have them.

When you've killed every enemy (including the hobgoblins hiding up high), a Vex hydra called an Angelic will spawn. Kill that, and you'll unlock a second cube in this room, floating in one of several positions. Find it and make another chain to the nearby forcefield to open it.

At this point, the Consecrated Mind will teleport from the first room to the second. The team that cleared the second room now switches jobs with the team from the first room; since whoever stayed in the first room will have Voltaic Overload timers, they won't be able to keep picking up what the boss drops. The second team has to take that role, while the first team clears out the next room. Kill all the enemies, taking special care to eliminate Cyclopes (and note that more Cyclopes spawn after you kill the Angelic). Once that team opens the third forcefield, the team from the last room again moves up to the next area, clearing out enemies. The team in the third room has to keep picking up Voltaic Overloads in the meantime.

The fourth room has a forcefield with three locks instead of one, with three corresponding cubes that will unlock one at a time as you clear each lock. Those cubes are also farther away, so you'll need more people to make your chain. When the team in the last room is ready, it should call for one of the Voltaic Overload team members to run up and help them to chain to the first lock. Once the first lock is cleared, the Consecrated Mind will again teleport away, and the Voltaic Overload team can run forward to meet the rest of the squad.

You've got a breather here until you clear the last two locks on the forcefield, so feel free to take a minute. The next area is the toughest. Once you clear all three locks, you'll have to sprint across an open field filled with Cyclopes, Overload Minotaurs, and other enemies. Meanwhile, the Consecrated Mind is going to teleport out into the middle of the field and start dropping Voltaic Overloads. Basically, as a team, you need to race for the Overloads and pick them up to avoid being wiped and starting the whole encounter over. You also need to keep from getting sniped by Cyclopes and other enemies along the way. It's basically an explosion-filled foot chase.

First, make sure you check who has Overload timers and who doesn't before you start this section of the encounter--remember, there's no rush. Whoever doesn't have timers should run straight for the Voltaic Overloads as soon as you drop the forcefield. You'll probably pick up a total of three, so make sure you have enough players at the ready to deal with them. Everyone else should provide cover and try to draw fire. The Cyclopes here are a particular threat, because they can knock out one of your Overload runners and easily lead to a wipe. My team found the best way to deal with them was with quick, decisive sniper rifle action: we used Honed Edge rounds in Izanagi's Burden to one-shot the Cyclopes and quickly thin out the number of threats on the field. Remember, however, that speed is the key here and Voltaic Overloads are most important. Given the choice between picking one up and dying because of the timer, or letting it explode, it's better to sacrifice one player. No matter what, you're going to be running through a lot of danger.

Everyone should generally race for the far end of the area. Pick up all the Overloads along the way and keep going until you run out of runway. When its back is against the wall, the Consecrated Mind will teleport away and escape, ending the encounter and rewarding you with a loot chest.

The next section of the raid is a jumping puzzle through an area called the Undergrowth. The path forward isn't too confusing--you need to move generally forward from the spot where you first drop down underground. If you see moving walls that are trying to knock you to your death, you're going the right way.

This area also has a hidden treasure chest to find. It's actually pretty simple to locate, but it can also be easy to miss.

When you first enter the Undergrowth, you'll see a path heading away to your left along one wall, and one following the wall to the right. To get to the chest, you want to head left onto the big tree root that leads out over the abyss. Walk to the end of it and look out over the gap toward the bronze Vex machinery just over in the distance. That's your destination.

On the right side of the bronze structure, you should see a square platform moving up and down like an elevator. It hangs at the top but reverses pretty quickly when it hits the bottom, so you'll need to time your jump to land on it. You're actually trying to go just past that elevator. Land on it when it hits the bottom, then get off of it to find a small hole in the wall right next to where it stops at its lowest point. Slip through that hole to find the chest. Note that this hidden chest will give you things like mods and shaders, but no Powerful drops. It seems you might get additional copies of raid loot you've already unlocked from other encounters, but it'll only drop at your current level.

The path forward is best accessed from the right side of the area from the start, crossing over the big tree roots to jump to the areas with moving walls that will try to kill you. It can be tough to cross, but the path forward is pretty clear. On the other side of the Undergrowth, you'll hit the second encounter, which has you defending a series of Vex spires from incoming enemies.

When you enter the area of the second encounter, you'll see three Vex praying to a spire. Don't shoot them or venture too far forward or you'll start the encounter. This large area is shaped like a huge diamond, and you're currently standing at one of its points. To your left and right are paths that lead to the middle points, with their own spire at each one. From there, you can continue on to the final point. My team numbered these locations, starting by calling the first spire "1" and going clockwise from there.

This encounter is like a four-way version of the Vex Spire public event you see in places such as Nessus. Vex are trying to reach the spire, where they start praying and then disappear. If enough of them sacrifice themselves to the spire, your team will be wiped. Thus, you need to clear enemies from each of the spires and then defend them throughout the course of the encounter. To start, split your team into two, with two players staying back to defend Spire 1, and four heading down the left path to Spire 2. This team will need Barrier rounds, but not Overload, so feel free to swap your mods accordingly.

Basically, what you're doing here is capturing each of the spires in turn, and then defending them for the rest of the fight. When the capture team leaves Spire 1, the defending team will clear out various small enemies, as well as an Angelic Hydra that spawns down the center hallway. Killing the Angelic triggers the chain tether mechanic for this encounter, unlocking a cube in the middle hallway.

Each person defending a spire will have to periodically activate the cube to create an energy chain to their spire. That will give them the Enlightenment buff. As you defend your spire, enemies will appear with unbreakable shields, rendering them invincible unless you have Enlightenment. The tough part of this encounter is that no person alone can make a long-enough chain to get the buff; you need at least two people to do it. Luckily, as you capture more and more spires, Vex gates will become active near each one, allowing you to quickly teleport between neighboring spires so you and your teammates can help each other regain the buff.

For loadout here, we found success with The Recluse for its enemy-clearing capabilities, and some spire defenders also used Tractor Cannon for its ability to kill multiple small enemies in one shot; it's also good for knocking shielded enemies away from the spire, even if it doesn't kill them. Sniper rifles are also recommended for killing Angelics and distant enemies, as are grenade launchers. Make sure your team has a good balance of weapons for defending the spire from small enemies, as well as a few big damage-dealers for killing Aneglics as quickly as possible.

While two players stay back at Spire 1 to defend it and start activating Enlightenment, the capture team takes over Spire 2 by clearing out the enemies there, including Barrier Hobgoblins. Each Spire also has an Angelic; once you kill that, the place is considered captured and you can start activating the Enlightenment buff and using the Vex gates to access other spires. When you capture Spire 2, leave one person from the capture team behind to defend it while the other three players on the capture team continue to Spire 3. You should have at least one defender at each spire, and one of the two defenders at Spire 1 can now float back and forth between 1, and 2, helping to rebuff people and defend. When the capture team takes Spire 3, the floating defender from Spire 1 can make it their home, so three people are left to take Spire 4. At that point, the defenders at 1, 2, and 3 should clear the waves that attack their spires, then jump through the gates to help each other out and rebuff each other with chains. You'll need to move fast, as waves keep coming, but you should have ample time to help each other and keep your buffs refreshed.

Once all four spires are captured, you'll have one defender at each spire, plus two players floating between them to help rebuff and defend. Now the encounter will change, with three Angelic hydras will spawn at one of the spires, so keep a lookout and make sure you and your teammates are vocal about where they are. When this happens, the two people who are not dedicated to defending spires should go to the location with the Angelics, using the Vex gates, and help defend it. Everyone else will need to clear a wave of shielded enemies before they can leave their posts if they're needed. Keep coordinated and help to clear out the Angelic enemies as quickly as possible, then rebuff everyone before the defenders head back to their spires for the next wave. Keep repeating this process until you've killed Angelic enemies at each spire. When that happens, the barrier blocking the way to the center of the arena will fall.

Everyone should now rush to the middle, where you'll find another spire to defend and another cube to use for buffs. Angelics will spawn down the hallways and more shielded enemies will come your way--this is your last stand. Work together to buff at least some of your teammates so they can knock out shields (a single shot will take shields down, so if you're low on buffs, concentrate on destroying as many shields as possible and let unbuffed people finish off the enemies).

You'll fight off three waves of Angelics and other enemies in this center area, including Vex Supplicants, which are harpies from the Vault of Glass that fly straight at you and explode. Titan Bubbles and Warlock Wells of Radiance are helpful here, as are Hunter Shadowshot tethers, but a coordinated team that's at level shouldn't have much trouble fighting off all the enemies. Once you've cleared enough waves, the encounter ends and grants you a reward chest.

Your next encounter happens in the same place, but the mechanics change significantly. You'll again deal with the Consecrated Mind, but this time, you're going to kill it. To do that, you need to again stop its Voltaic Overload attacks, and you'll have to work to make it vulnerable to attack. Activate the fight by creating a tether chain from the nearby cube to the spire in the center of the arena.

Again, split into two teams. Your first team's job will be to shadow the boss and pick up Voltaic Overloads when it drops them. The Consecrated Mind will fly to the end of one of the short hallways surrounding the center of the arena, and you'll have to jump over a bottomless pit in order to follow. When it gets to the far side, the Consecrated Mind will drop a Voltaic Overload, which one player will have to pick up. This time, however, the Overloaded player will be trapped and unable to move, while the Consecrated Mind prepares to one-shot kill them.

To stop the Consecrated Mind from killing your trapped teammate, you have to shoot its glowing red eyes. There are six eyes that appear on the boss during this portion, arranged in a triangle--two on its "fin" on the top, two on the left-side fin, and two on the right-side fin. Each time you pick up an Overload, you'll need to shoot one of the eyes on each fin in order to stun the boss. The best way to do this is to assign a side to each member of your Voltaic team, with the trapped person being responsible for the top fin.

The trapped person's job is to look up and see which of the two eyes on the top fin is lit up red--either the outermost eye, or the innermost eye. This is the signal for which eye to shoot on each fin; when you're not trapped, both eyes appear red. The trapped person calls out which eye to shoot, and all three players shoot their eye to stun the boss. Shoot the wrong eye or take too long, and the trapped player dies.

While the Voltaic Overload team is chasing the boss around, the rest of your team is executing something similar to a Gambit match. One of the four spires you previously defended will start to glow white at the beginning of the encounter, signaling that it is the one you have to defend from approaching shielded enemies, just like in the last encounter. You'll be able to see all four spires down the hallways leading from the center of the arena.

You can't use the chain to gain the Enlightenment buff to defend the spire this time, though. Instead, you have to find and kill Vex Minotaurs, who drop Voltaic Motes, similar to Motes of Darkness in Gambit. Each Minotaur drops five motes at a time. When the Gambit team kills one, one player should grab all the motes and then run straight for the spire. You'll be able to bank the motes in the spire just like you do in a Gambit match. Banking any motes (even just one) will give you a full dose of the Enlightenment buff. Whoever banks motes then stays at the spire to defend it from approaching enemies, while the rest of the Gambit team has 40 seconds to find another Minotaur, kill it, and bank its motes to relieve the first person.

You'll need to protect the spire throughout the fight to keep from getting wiped out, but banking motes has a secondary effect. When you've banked 30 motes in total, you'll see a message telling you that the boss is being drawn to the overloaded spire. When that happens, everyone should immediately run to the spire, because you've reached the damage phase and you'll need to attack the boss to avoid getting wiped. It's a good idea for the Gambit team to keep a running tally of the motes they've banked, since there are no count indicators provided for you. When you're about to hit 30, you can start pulling the rest of the team to the spire.

When the Consecrated Mind reaches the spire, it'll spread its fins and reveal a bunch of red eyes. As a team, quickly shoot out all of the eyes. The boss will reveal a white weak point in its center, and this is what you want to hit--but the Consecrated Mind will also retreat backward toward the center of the area, making it harder to shoot as it goes.

Right before this point, you quickly want to drop a Titan bubble with Weapons of Light and fire a Shadowshot tether at the boss to slow it down. As the boss retreats, step into the bubble to get the Weapons of Light buff, then shoot it in the face with sniper rifles; we found success using those with the Firing Line perk, Whisper of the Worm, and Izanagi's Burden. Grenade launchers with spike grenades also fair pretty well, as does a Hunter with Golden Gun and Celestial Nighthawk. You must do enough damage to stun the boss during this phase, or it'll wipe you; it's also important that you start to move forward before too long because a Vex barrier will trap you by the spire if you linger.

Once the boss becomes invulnerable again, you'll need to repeat the process with another spire until you've killed it. You'll need to finish the job in three rounds in order to avoid allowing the Consecrated Mind to become Enraged, and therefore much more deadly.

At the start of a new round after a damage phase, check in on your team's Voltaic Overload counters, as you might need to switch players around briefly to make sure someone can pick up the Overloads to keep from wiping. Similarly, the Overload team should try to help kill Minotaurs whenever possible (but avoid picking up the motes), and one member of the Gambit team should be ready to switch over and pick up a Voltaic Overload if all three members of that squad already have a counter. It's worth noting that if you die, your Overload timer goes away, freeing you to take the drop again. Through this whole process, watch out for Vex Supplicants, which move fast and can blow you up before you realize they're there. They spawn down the long hallways to the spires and like to head immediately to the middle. Supplicants will often also hang out in your way as you jump back from picking up a Voltaic Overload, where they can kill you as soon as you land.

When the Consecrated Mind goes down, you'll be able to leave through the door behind the rotating hallway. The path from there will take you back through another jumping puzzle, but again, it's a relatively simple one. Continue forward until you hit a field with flowers, trees, and a couple of big waterfalls of white Vex milk. Your second and final hidden chest of the raid is located here.

From here, climb the big tree on the right side of the area, fighting your way past a few enemies. As you make your way up the hill, you'll see two openings up ahead. Go through the entrance on the left, which will take you inside the big tree. If you turn around and face the opening, you should see a platform up above the door with a glowing chest on it.

You can reach that platform by taking a circuitous route around the outside of the tree, or you can hop up on the stump on the right side of this room and just leap straight up to it. As a Hunter, I got this one with almost no effort and without the use of ST0MP-EE5 or adjusting my specs for mobility.

Continue back up the hill and you'll eventually climb up to a huge new arena and a fight with the final boss: the Sanctified Mind.

This final fight brings in a few more mechanics and includes a whole lot of things you need to keep in mind, while also mixing in elements of everything you've done in the raid so far. First and foremost, note that there are several Vex spires in this area, all of them with the port for accepting motes. During each phase of the fight, two spires will be active, designated by the chain cubes above them, and those are also the only two that will allow you to deposit motes. You'll need to defend both the spires from approaching Vex Goblins that will try to pray and sacrifice themselves to them; if they succeed, you'll be wiped. So job one in a lot of cases is to keep the area clear of enemies.

Your loadout for this fight should be similar to what you used for the Consecrated Mind. You'll want powerful sniper rifles like Izanagi's Burden and Whisper of the Worm for damaging the boss (and killing Cyclopes), and something like The Recluse, The Huckleberry, or similar guns for killing a whole lot of smaller enemies and defending spires. Shadowshot tethers can be useful here again, but especially if you wind up on the mote-gathering team, you might want to go with a roaming Super that will let you kill a lot of enemies fast. Titan Bubbles are great for Weapons of Light during the damage phase, but other stationary Supers like Well of Radiance might not be as effective thanks to the way the arena shifts around you.

You'll need three teams of two for much of this fight. Two of the teams will be responsible for mote collection, and once they've turned their motes in at a spire, for clearing out shielded enemies using the Enlightenment buff--just like in the last encounter. But the two spires are not the same; one is a regular Vex spire that you've seen throughout the raid so far, and one is a "dark" version of the spire. The dark version is orange and only accepts "dark" motes, which are also orange. Luckily, you'll know which kind you have based on where you get them; more on that in a minute. What's important is that more of those plus sign-shaped locks will appear in front of the boss, and their color will correspond to the color of the spire you need to use to create the chain that unlocks them.

The two mote teams will alternate leaving the main arena to go for motes, while the other four players stay back and defend. When the fight starts, everyone will shoot at enemies until an Angelic spawn, at which point you'll need to kill it to unlock the chain cubes above the spires. That will also light up two red weak points on the Sanctified Mind: one on the right shoulder and one on the left hip.

Concentrate fire on the right shoulder first. When it explodes, a piece will fall off the boss, which will open a big orange portal in the middle of the radiolarian lake near him. The first mote team should immediately head for the portal and go through, staying together; the portal will only stay open for a short time so you need to get both players through quickly. That'll transport them to a distant island full of enemies. Clear out the enemies and pick up as many motes as you can--these will be the orange "dark" Voltaic motes, and therefore will correspond to the spire on the right side of the arena when facing the boss. You need to get at least 15 between both players, but each of you can only carry 10 at a time. Meanwhile, back at the boss, activating the portal will spawn a distant Cyclops high above the arena on the right side, so make sure to take it down immediately, or it will snipe your teammates and wreck your run. Every time a portal opens, a cyclops spawns on its corresponding side, so make sure to always be ready to kill it fast.

When the mote team has enough, they should tell the players who stayed behind to shoot the Sanctified Mind's shoulder again (Note: In a pinch, you can snipe the weak point on the boss from the island, but this can throw off your rhythm so do it very sparingly). Blowing up the shoulder will instantly teleport the first mote team back to the arena, where they can jump down and head to the glowing orange spire to deposit their motes. Depositing will give them both Enlightenment, and they should immediately spread out across the arena and start shooting shielded enemies. Since a new portal opened, a Cyclops will again spawn; my team was successful when one of the returning mote collectors stopped to kill the Cyclops as soon as they arrived, while the second person jumped down to bank their motes.

Meanwhile, as soon as the shoulder is blown up and the first mote team is teleported back, the second mote team should jump into the portal and repeat the process. They should gather motes as quickly as possible and then signal for the rest of the team to bring them back by shooting the shoulder. Alternatively, if your team's Enlightenment buff is running out, you should shoot the shoulder and bring the mote team back immediately. Keeping shielded enemies away from the spire is essential because Vex sacrificing themselves to the spires is the quickest way for your team to get wiped out. It's possible to recover if you have less than 30 motes after two portal visits, but it's highly recommended you try to get all the motes in just two trips.

Once both teams have gone through the orange portal and deposited 30 motes, that spire will be fully charged--you won't be able to deposit more motes into it at that point, which means if you're stuck carrying unneeded motes, you won't be able to get the Enlightenment buff to kill shielded enemies.

If you've done things correctly, quickly start repeating the process with the weak point on the boss's left hip--you need to move fast, since you're on the Enlightenment timer. That'll create a blue portal and spawn a Cyclops on the left side of the arena. Send the first team through to get motes again, which you'll deposit in the blue spire on the left side of the arena when you return. Again, make sure you get 30 motes in total; if you don't, send another person through the portal again until you have enough. Both spires must be fully charged with 30 motes or you won't be able to trigger the damage phase or stop the boss from wiping you during the next portion.

While the mote teams are doing their thing, the last team has a whole other job to do. These guys are the Builders, and their job is to clear enemies and to keep the boss from destroying the arena. As you work through the fight, the boss will cause sections of the arena to turn orange, which will make those areas disappear and kill anyone who's standing on them. The back sections of the arena matter less, but losing the front portions makes clearing enemies and staying alive very difficult. The builders' job is to use the spires to make chains to different floating plus-shaped locks around the area in order to restore the land the boss destroys. They should do this as quickly as they can, but only between waves of enemies if possible--activating the cubes and getting in the chain will mean you can't shoot enemies, which can create sticky situations if you need to protect the spires.

For the most part, two people should be able to make a chain to almost any of the locks, but have a third person who's currently defending on-call should you need a longer chain. The builders will need to be highly coordinated to deal with the boss destroying the arena, and it's important that they also make it clear where they're working. You'll want to keep the other defenders well away when you're creating the chain so that you can quickly get it where it needs to go and you don't accidentally disrupt anyone's ability to shoot enemies. Whenever the building team is not restoring land, it should be shooting goblins to defend the spires, and helping to activate the portals to bring back the mote teams so they can deposit.

After a specific period of time--it seems to be about around four or five enemy waves--the boss will create a big, colored plus sign-shaped lock in front of it. This is the boss's big wipe mechanic. You need to clear that lock before it fully charges or you'll die, but it takes a long time for that to happen, so you have time to clear out enemies before you worry about it. Another Angelic enemy will spawn, along with more shielded goblins that'll try to reach the spires. Keep clearing them and take down the Angelic to re-open access to the cubes.

Once you're in the clear, you need to make a chain to the boss's lock from the spire of the corresponding color. The best way to do this is to assign one person to be the first link in the chain, and one person to the last link. Both those people get into position, one near the boss and one near the spire. Then, the two players who do not have Enlightenment fill in the chain between the beginning and end players. Four should be enough to link to the boss's lock, and the fewer players you can use, the better, as it'll create the chain more quickly. But be ready to shift this if you need more people, as you need to be close to the boss's lock to chain to it and might need the extra distance.

When the boss's lock is cleared by the chain, you can shoot its big white critical spot. After just a few seconds, though, the boss will rise into the air and a second plus sign lock will appear before it. You have a couple of seconds to repeat the same process as with the first lock, but from the other spire. The best way to handle this is as follows: Destroy the first lock, then have the chain team run to the other side and prepare for the second lock. The two or three players who don't need to help with the second lock should stay behind at the first spire and shoot the boss as much as they can. When you clear the second lock, your opportunity to damage the Sanctified Mind increases significantly, and at this point everyone should fire away.

Use a Titan Bubble with Weapons of Light to maximize your sniper or grenade launcher damage. Golden Gun and Celestial Nighthawk is recommended, as are rally barricades to make sure you do as much damage as possible. With one properly executed damage phase, my team was able to knock out fully half the Sanctified Mind's health. Once the boss becomes invulnerable again, you'll have to repeat the whole process. If everyone is coordinated enough, you should be able to take the boss down in two or three phases. Note that after you complete a damage phase, the active Vex spires will change, so you'll need to deposit motes in a new place on both sides of the arena.

When the Sanctified Mind goes down for good, you'll have beaten Garden of Salvation, but that's not all there is to do in the raid. Check out our guide for unlocking Divinity, the raid's Exotic trace rifle, which requires quite a bit of work--and six-player puzzle-solving--to get.

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In a live-streamed speech at Georgetown University on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg laid out his thoughts on freedom of speech.

Zuckerberg used the moment to talk about his own legacy, and the legacy of Facebook. He told the New York Times that he gave the speech in order to explain his views on free expression, and lay out a future path for Facebook after he is no longer in charge.I hope this is a moment for us to put our place in history in perspective, he told The Times.

In the speech, Zuckerberg described Facebook as a platform that gives users two important things: voice and inclusion. He then referenced well-known social movements in which people used their voices, implicitly comparing them to Facebook.

More people being able to share their perspectives has always been necessary to build a more inclusive society, Zuckerberg said, as he proceeded to quote Frederick Douglass and to reference the Civil Rights Movement and the Enlightenment. He also mentioned that #blacklivesmatter first appeared as a hashtag on Facebook.

Read more: Facebook made the unusual decision to push back directly on Elizabeth Warren and her criticism of the company, but its attempt to defend itself backfired spectacularly

Not everyone was convinced by Zuckerbergs attempt to include Facebook in the story of broader social movements. Vanita Gupta, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, told the New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg is co-opting civil rights history to try to justify Facebooks policies that do long-term damage to our democracy.

Facebook is under fire for its policy of running political ads with misinformation, exempting them from the normal third-party fact-checking process. Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has been particularly critical, and breaking up Facebook is a major part of her platform. Last week, she ran a fake Facebook ad claiming that Zuckerberg supports Trumps reelection, and the company tried to call her out on Facebook, which did not go well for them.

Despite backlash against the policy, Zuckerberg maintained that he and Facebook dont want to censor politicians or the news in a democracy. Last week, after Politico published records of off-the-record dinners Zuckerberg had with Conservative leaders and politicians, Zuckerberg posted that hearing from a wide range of viewpoints is part of learning, and told others to try it.

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I write this on the 15th in Bhutan. I realize where this is going mostly to be read, it is a day earlier. Ive been mostly enjoying the confusions of the international date line and the reminders of the mess that is time and space

That noted, according to one source in Japanese tradition the 15th of October, is marked as the day in the year 606, when Jianzhi Sengcan returned to that mystery from which all of us come and, as with that ancient venerable, to which all of us return.

In our Zen traditions Sengcan (Seng-tsan in the older Pinyin transliteration and Sosan in Japanese) is the third Chinese ancestor, inheriting the dharma from Huike who inherited it from Bodhidharma. Just as the historicity of this lineage is confused, clouded, best to be held within the mysteries of story and myth, he is also traditionally named as the author of a poem.

And that poem, the title variously translated as Faith in Mind, or On Trust in the Heart, or Have Faith in Your Mind, or a Song of Enlightenment has invited numerous attempts at rendering into English.

Among my favorite versions is that by Stanley Lombardo, poet, classicist, and Zen master within the Kwan Um School.

TRUSTING IN MIND

The Great Way is not difficult,Just dont pick and choose.If you cut off all likes or dislikesEverything is clear like space.

Make the slightest distinctionAnd heaven and earth are set apart.If you wish to see the truth,Dont think for or against.

Likes and dislikesAre the minds disease.Without understanding the deep meaningYou cannot still your thoughts.

It is clear like space,Nothing missing, nothing extra.If you want somethingYou cannot see things as they are.

Outside, dont get tangled in things.Inside, dont get lost in emptiness.Be still and become OneAnd all opposites disappear.

If you stop moving to become still,This stillness always moves.If you hold on to opposites,How can you know One?

If you dont understand One,This and that cannot function.Denied, the world asserts itself.Pursued, emptiness is lost.

The more you think and talk,The more you lose the Way.Cut off all thinkingAnd pass freely anywhere.

Return to the root and understand.Chase appearances and lose the source.One moment of enlightenmentIlluminates the emptiness before you.

Emptiness changing into thingsIs only our deluded view.Do not seek the truth.Only put down your opinions.

Do not live in the world of opposites.Be careful! Never go that way.If you make right and wrong,Your mind is lost in confusion.

Two comes from One,But do not cling even to this One.When your mind is undisturbedThe ten thousand things are without fault.

No fault, no ten thousand things,No disturbance, no mind.No world, no one to see it.No one to see it, no world.

In emptiness the two are the same,And each holds the ten thousand things.If you no longer see them as different,How can you prefer one to another?

The Way is calm and wide,Not easy, not difficult.But small minds get lost.Hurrying, they fall behind.

Clinging, they go too far,Sure to take a wrong turn,Just let it be! In the end,Nothing goes, nothing stays.

Follow nature and become one with the Way,Free and easy and undisturbed.Tied by your thoughts, you lose the truth,Become heavy, dull, and unwell.

Not well, the mind is troubled.Then why hold or reject anything?If you want to get the One VehicleDo not despise the world of the senses.

When you do not despise the six senses,That is already enlightenment.The wise do not act.The ignorant bind themselves.

In true Dharma there is no this or that,So why blindly chase your desires?Using mind to stir up the mindIs the original mistake.

Peaceful and troubled are only thinking.Enlightenment has no likes or dislikes.All opposites ariseFrom faulty views.

Illusions, flowers in the air Why try to grasp them?Win, lose, right, wrong Put it all down!

If the eye never sleeps,Dreams disappear by themselves.If the mind makes no distinctions,The ten thousand things are one essence.

Understand this dark essenceAnd be free from entanglements.See the ten thousand things as equalAnd you return to your original nature

Enlightened beings everywhereAll enter this source.This source is beyond time and space.One moment is ten thousand years.

Even if you cannot see it,The whole universe is before your eyes.

Infinitely small is infinitely large:No boundaries, no differences.Infinitely large is infinitely small:Measurements do not matter here.

What is is the same as what is not.What is not is the same as what is.Where it is not like this,Dont bother staying.

One is all,All is one.When you see things like this,You do not worry about being incomplete.

Trust and Mind are not two.Not-two is trusting the Mind.

Words and speech dont cut it,Cant now, never could, wont ever.

And at absolutely no extra cost a brief visit with the translator, Stanley Lombardo, together with his wife Judith Rotiman, also a poet, and, like her husband, a Zen master within the Kwan Um School

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WeWork logos are seen at a WeWork office in San Francisco, California, U.S. September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kate Munsch

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The We Companys prospectus for its flotation said its mission was to elevate the worlds consciousness. Having now abandoned its stock offering and its shamanic leader, the parent of shared-office provider WeWork has at least understood that self-realization is integral to that calling. But it needs more than greater awareness to ensure its survival.

The New York-based outfits investors, including Japans SoftBank and its Saudi Arabia-funded Vision Fund, have also cut loose the once revered chief executive, Adam Neumann. His barefoot, weed- and tequila-fueled charisma made him the kind of figure venture-capital investors love to back until they dont. In private funding rounds, WeWorks value ballooned to $47 billion.

Some investment banks involved in the initial public offering pitched possible valuations that were much higher. It wasnt to be: Investors balked at the companys private-market worth, half of that figure, and half again, before the operation was formally aborted just this week.

Aside from the increasing frequency of reports about Neumanns weird behavior and self-dealing, they may have taken the unimaginative but realistic view that WeWork was a heavily money-losing real-estate company a trendier version of IWG, the profitable but mundane Regus operator rather than a consciousness-elevating technology play.

Newly named Co-CEOs Artie Minson, the former finance chief, and Sebastian Gunningham, previously vice-chairman, have already decided to offload some sideline businesses, dramatically slow WeWorks previously headlong growth, and get rid of Neumanns top acolytes. Their challenge will be to show that the company can, in time, turn a profit.

Thats more than a nice-to-have. A Breakingviews calculator showed that even using generous assumptions, WeWork could burn through another $15 billion within a few years. The IPO was supposed to raise at least $3 billion, and that would have unlocked another $6 billion in debt. Minson and Gunningham will still need to raise billions, even on a less aggressive trajectory.

A new Breakingviews e-book recaps how they got here and some of the consequences. Only future chapters will conclude whether The We Company really managed to change the future of work or became the poster child for the private-market boom and bust.

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Looking for answers? In need of advice from a Taurus-sun, Virgo-moon, Gemini-rising? Think you can stump me? Email Simone at simone.a.levy@lawrence.edu with your own questions and you just might be featured in next weeks column.

Dear Simone,

I have been with my partner for four and a half years, and we are, for all intents and purposes, very happy together. I recently revealed to her my interest in cuckolding, and to my surprise, she was extremely respectful and even eager to fulfill my needs. I worry that she may be too eager. Within an hour of telling her, she posted a Craigslist ad seeking out men for the whole scheme. So long story short, some guy named Brandon is coming over to our apartment later today, and Ill watch him fornicate with my partner. And I will obviously have a good time, because that is what I am into, but I am worried that this is all leading up to her leaving me. What should I do?

Signed, Scaredy Cuck

Dear Scaredy,

The situation that you are in definitely is a tough one and one that many people in relationships have to suffer through. I definitely think you should confront her, but not in a way that at all goes back on your initial conversation with her. Just tell her your expectations and ask her for her own expectations. Hopefully, the initial thrill of this for her is what led to her enthusiasm, but if not, be honest. And if this one encounter with Brandon is what leads her spiraling into an adulterous spree, then its better you know now than later on down the road, perhaps when you are married and with kids. The truth is, this is kind of what you signed up for. Is this not the life of a cuck? And if your partner does not get it, then that is a shame. All of that being said, I wish you luck with your relationship, and I hope you figure things out.

Signed, Simone

Dear Simone,

I am looking for advice regarding my relationship. I have been in a polyamorous relationship with two men for about three months now. For background, I, myself, am a woman. The first two months with the boys was great, but the last month has brought many new problems. I found myself not getting enough attention. Both guys initially identified as straight, but were willing to try a poly relationship. And now, our thruple looks a lot more like a gay couple and their surrogate or something. They go out to dinner together without inviting me, they are constantly touching each other and they have even relegated me to the living room couch from time to time when they want to get sexy in the bedroom. I have no problem with homosexuality, do not get me wrong. But I am wondering what I can do to get them to be more interested in me.

Signed, Thruple Third Wheel

Dear Thruple,

Oh honey. Take a deep breath. I hate to tell you, but the verdict is exactly what you think it is: your two guys fell in love with each other and are no longer invested in the polyamorous lifestyle, meaning you. There is no way to get them to be more interested in you if they have already decided for themselves that they go together. I suggest you break things off with them before things get too dicey. It is also important to keep in mind that, from my understanding, polyamorous relationships should not be like moons orbiting a planet: you are not the center of the relationship. It should be a fully fleshed out love triangle with the two others loving each other as much as they love you. But it does seem like they love each other more than they love you, so in this case, I would just call it quits. Good luck with whatever you choose to do.

Signed, Simone

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By Adam Owens, WRAL anchor/reporter

Raleigh, N.C. For 50, years, Project Enlightenment has prepared young kids to learn, guided parents on how to raise them and instructed teachers on how to guide them.

Saturday was a celebration of the impact the organization has made on generations in Wake County.

Phoebe and Effie Fitzgerald have great memories of this place.

I remember we had a class pet, Phoebe said.

If it is your birthday, you get to sit in a birthday chair, Effie recalled.

Amy Fitzgerald cant say enough good things about it.

It is just a treasure in the community, she said.

All three are even featured on a brochure, letting other families know all Project Enlightenment has to offer.

Such a great start to their educational journey and just a warm, loving, therapeutic environment, Amy Fitzgerald said.

Louise Taff has worked with the program for 48 of its 50 years. Children she worked with decades ago are now grown and bringing their own kids.

It is very rewarding, but it makes me feel kind of old, she said.

Taff is assistant director of Project Enlightenment, which is a Wake County School district program that provides early childhood education.

Helping a child learn to regulate their emotions, learn to regulate their behaviors, learn to cooperate, learn to share helps them be ready for school, Taff said.

The program also offers support to parents and teachers.

Fifty years is a long time. Project Enlightenment has moved locations, fought for funding in economically tough times and changed as families have changed particularly with new technologies.

Its these kids that keep Taff coming back.

It still warms my heart to get up every morning and come to work in a place that values young children and families, she said.

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Edible enlightenment from our eatery experts and colleagues Richard Nalley, Monie Begley and Randall Lane, as well as brothers Bob, Kip and Tim.

Le Jardinier

610 Lexington Ave., at 53rd St. (Tel.: 212-451-9211)

Chef Alain Verzeroli is steeped in the luxury-food traditions of both France and Japan. His ground-floor restaurant's leafy plants and its marble walls and tabletops shot through with veins of green create an ultra-stylish and tranquil garden-like oasis. The menu's centerpiece is its use of seasonal fruits and vegetables. A prime example is the sensational watermelon, heirloom tomato, ginger and mint appetizer. But Verzeroli doesn't stint on his fish selections, such as the perfect king salmon with mushroom bouillon, or in his meat offerings, like the smoky, rich and toothsome bavette au jus. Desserts are superb. You may never taste a more mango-y mango than in his mangocrmeux with coconut sorbet.

Agern

Grand Central Terminal, 89 East 42nd St. (Tel.: 646-568-4018)

This Danish contemporary spot serves up seasonal fare with a Scandinavian flourish. (It also makes a great Cosmopolitan!) The beef tartare is as tasty as it is beautifully presented, and the succulent pork shoulder is particularly noteworthy. The chef even makes fava beans exciting. Desserts are good but are perhaps the weakest link in an otherwise perfect meal. One caught for a restaurant in a rail station: Service is surprisingly slow.

MomofukuSsm Bar

207 Second Ave., at 13th St.

Arguably the most influential restaurant from New York's most important restaurant group of the past decade,Ssm has a new chef and a new menu focused on Singapore street food, such as skate roasted in banana leaf. While you can still furtively order a pork bun, the culinary theatrics are largely gone. Diners have noticed: It's never been easier to score a table.

Mimi

185 Sullivan St., between Bleecker and West Houston streets (Tel.: 212-418-1260)

You can't go wrong with anything at this tiny Village eatery. The menu is French with an updated take on many classics. For a tasty surprise try the veal brain appetizer. The softshell crab is among the best you'll have had all season, and Goldilocks would declare the hanger steak "just right." If you choose the baba au rhum for dessert, you won't need an after-dinner drink.

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The work of the School of Educations Felipe Gacharn and his brother, Carlos Eduardo Gacharn, is being showcased in the Academic Staff Art Gallery in Bascom Hall through January.

Their photography series is titled, Flow: The Art of Felipe and Carlos Eduardo Gacharn. An opening reception is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 14, from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. The Academic Staff Art Gallery is housed in room 270 of Bascom Hall. The exhibit runs until January 2020.

The Office of the Secretary of the Academic Staff launched The Academic Staff Art Gallery in the 2010 to showcase talented artists from within the academic staff. Exhibits change on a semester by semester basis.

Describing the exhibit, Felipe explains that artists and scientists now share similar positions on the edge of human understanding.

While scientists aim to enlighten by deciphering quantitative data, artists delve into the ephemera of the human conscience in the hopes of inspiring others, says Felipe. But what if enlightenment and inspiration share more than it appears?

The Gacharn brothers, who were born in Colombia and are both UW-Madison alumni, explore this very question through their photography. They use high-powered black lights and special fluorescent dyes in an effort to capture the material nature of energy itself.

That eternal, ever-changing force that controls and composes the universe might have something to teach us about the fundamental human experience, says Felipe. What if society learned to embrace change and transformation, even in times of loss? 'Flow' poses the hypothesis that if we accept the transient nature of life, like energy itself, we might be better able to appreciate the beauty of a single moment. We hope you enjoy these works as opportunities for quiet reflection - on the universe, and yourselves.

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Catherine the Great is a new mini-series exploring the life of the Russian ruler (played by Helen Mirren). Available to stream in full on Now TV, the show follows the life of the monarch, as well as her long-lasting love affair with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke). Another interesting moment of her life is how she found herself as a pen-pal to French philosopher Voltaire - heres everything you need to know about that.

HBO and Sky mini-series Catherine the Great is currently airing on Sky Atlantic on Thursday evenings at 9pm.

The series is also available to stream on Now TV in full for subscribers to the platform.

The Helen Mirren-fronted show follows the later years of her rule, including the love she shared with Potemkin.

Based on the real story of the Russian monarch who ruled from 1762 until 1796, the series chronicles a number of events in her life.

READ MORE:Catherine the Great location: Where is series filmed?

However, one thing that was not really explored in the series was her intellectual friendship with French philosopher Voltaire.

Voltaire is best known as a French enlightenment writer and philosopher who was famous for his wit and advocacy for freedom of speech.

Across his life he wrote more than 20,000 letters to various people of note, including Catherine.

The pair had a long-lasting correspondence over her rule, which showed echoes of the friendship they had.

READ MORE:Catherine The Great: How queen had affairs despite Potemkin romance

They wrote to each other for 15 years before Voltaires death in 1778, with mutual admiration for their respective fields.

Voltaire in particular approved of Catherines secular policies, given his advocation for a separation between church and state.

Alongside this were a great deal of references to the classic wit of the philosopher who called her an enlightened despot in one of their exchanges.

He also wrote to her of his wish to have been part of the Russia that she created, according to the New York Times.

In a letter to the ruler, he reportedly one said to her "If I were younger I would make myself Russian.

READ MORE:Catherine The Great: Who was her husband? How did he really die?

Much of the show has been based on historical research, with many of the cast and creators studying her letters.

However, it is only in recent times that this correspondence has been made available for wider use.

For years it was kept in a private collection before it was sold by a Moscow art dealer who retuned it to Russia in 2006.

The mini-series also covers a number of real events that happened during her rule, including how her lover Potemkin lost his eye, as well as her liberal reforms.

Part of the purpose of the series is to portray an accurate representation of her life, aside from the rumours that plagued her legacy.

READ MORE:Catherine The Great: How did she die? Are horse sex rumours true?

She was often criticised for her sexual liberation, which was constantly used as a tool to tarnish her reputation by her rivals.

However, getting past some of these salacious tales to the real truth of her story was a big part of the new mini-series, according to fellow actor Gina McKee who played Countess Bruce.

She spoke to Express.co.uk and other media about this in an interview before the launch of the show.

McKee said: I think weve got to move away from that b*** s*** havent we?

The way powerful women were treated historically and even now - its got to be changed.

Catherine the Great is airing on Thursdays at 9pm on Sky Atlantic and is also all available to stream on NOW TV.

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