I searched the entire world for a graduate school that would afford me the space to craft my individual voice, my unique contribution to the world as a leader and clinician. I was given the cognitive, philosophical, experiential, and poetic implements to do just this at Meridian. What I put in was what I got out, which is just what I wanted given that I had a vision about graduate school before I entered. Having received my doctorate from Meridian I can see that it was the ideal place for incubating my potential. Like every institution there were imperfections, but these imperfections were, for me, anulled by Meridian's distinctive inclusiveness of raw, unmediated reality along with its sophisticated philosophical diversity.