One day a person is driven . . . into the consciousness that s/he must die. . . . [H]anging helplessly, swirling in emptiness, engulfed in awe, it dawns at long last, like the rising of a black sun, that exactly here is the finally real before which s/he is fated. . . . This is the great encounter with the awe-full Mystery. ~Joseph Mathews, “The Recovery of the Other World,” Bending History, p. 170
Mathews says that after such an encounter, “Now, when someone asks you what life is all about, you have something to bear witness to. . . . You are beginning here to define again what you mean when you talk about . . . a person of Spirit in this world” (pp. 170-71).
We all have experienced the mystery. Namaste.
image: "Black Sun" by Barbara Knott www.barbaraknott.net/GV5miscellany.html
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The Mystery
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