Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I’ve done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
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