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myth: mystery
"For
homo religiosus "the
appearance of life is
the central mystery".
Life
comes from somewhere that is not this world and finally depart from here and
goes to the beyond, in some
mysterious way continues in an unknown place inaccessible to the majority of
mortals." - Mircea Eliade
"In the mystery
absorb the Spirit
in silent
contemplation and thanksgiving.
Perform acts of compassion and justice
throughout the world.
Breathe in the
bliss and strength of
Allah; breathe out with
loving and just action the power that has been bestowed on you by
Allah." - Rumi
"They crossed
land stitched by mountain ridges between broad plateaus.
Crossing them,
Bistami felt they had traveled up
into a higher space, where sunsets threw long shadows over
a vast, dark, windy world.
As
a last shard of sunset light shot under
dark lowering clouds Bistami heard from somewhere in camp a musician
playing, carving in the air a long plaintive melody that wound on, the song of
a plateau soul in the dusk.
The sultana stood at the edge of camp,
listening, watching the sun descend.
It dropped at the very speed of
time itself.
No human mind
could comprehend of no need to speak in this world.
The music only touched the hem of it and
that strand they only felt.
The universal whole was
beyond them.
And yet; sometimes,
as at this moment,
at dusk in the wind, we catch with
a sixth sense we don't know we have,
glimpses of shapes of cosmic
significance, a
sense of everything as holy - beyond
sense, thought and
even feeling -
our visible world,
lit from within, by
vibrant reality." - Kim
Stanley Robinson
There is deep
mystery - the mystery of life,
mystery of
consciousness and the mystery
of your natural place within existent reality.
Existence is a
mysterium, a mystery, tremendum et
fascinans-tremendous, terrifyingly horrific when
initially contemplated because true understanding smashes all of
your fixed notions of existent reality.
Horrific, yet utterly
fascinating, the beauty of nature and
your own being.
When you
start thinking about these things, about
the mystery within, which
includes Eternal Life,
there are not many symbolic
conceptual images to use.
Without prior
intellectual knowledge
you begin to recognize symbolic images conveyed in personal spiritual
experiences as present in other
systems of thought,
cultures and
religions.
When you see
your spiritual experiences as parallel to those of
individuals from other cultures,
other ages, other
social systems then you understand
these individuals had a spiritual life nearly identical to your
own.
"The erring wanderer,
lost in the wilds of remoteness
and nothingness,
will enter the tabernacle of life,
and
attain reunion with his heart's desire."
Bahá'u'lláh
The divine spark of Creation in you does
not die - this is your Eternal
Soul.
The divine spark of Creation that lives within in you
flames up and burns away the ego
detritus that has enveloped your
Eternal Soul with
unnatural desire or
false understanding revealing in full
the human heart.
The
divine spark of Creation survives
ego death and is
resurrected.
Heaven and
hell reside within the
Eternal Soul of every
man and
woman.
This is a great
realization of the
Upanishads of India in the 9th century BC.
All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are
within each of us.
They are magnified
archetypical dreams, manifestations of the
imagination filled with symbolic conceptual
imagery.
That is what myths are.
The mystery of life is
beyond accurate human conception.
Everything we think about is first bounded by the terminology of the
concepts we use to define reality - of being and not being, many and single,
true and untrue.
We first compartmentalize our thoughts
by thinking in terms of opposites.
We do this in order to
decide how to think about the object of contemplation.
Will we hold the object up in
the light so that we see it for what it truly is?
Or perhaps we take the object into
the dark because we are afraid that if we look too closely we may actually see
something we did not want to see !
Human beings search for
a way of experiencing reality
that is transcendent as the
Eternal Soul aches to be
reunited with the Ineffable.
The Eternal Soul searches for
spiritually
transforming experience as such inform the
pathways of integral
consciousness.
Human beings want to resonate in harmony with
the grand symphony that
is existent reality.
Human beings want to feel
the mystery that informs all things -
to feel the divine presence
within.
There are no symbolic conceptual images that
have the ability to properly portray the
actual mystical
experience - they can only suggest it.
The ultimate mystery of
existence can not be translated into
primitive material
symbols or any other
conceptual structure understood by the rational mind as understanding only
comes from Walking the
Thinspace. |
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