In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.
A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.
At the time of birth an ordering takes place. The awarenesses come together; they become specific until a person dies. At that point all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go back again, into the great unknown.
In mysticism we reorder those awarenesses. We combine and recombine them endlessly. We assemble them so we can experience aspects of the universe that most people will never know.
Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.
Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That’s not freedom. You’ve just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons – which doesn’t mean that you should avoid enlightenment.
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea – it’s another ring of perception.
Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.
The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you’ve done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.
Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It’s much more raucous at times; it’s much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.
In mysticism, there’s more of a sense of adventure, of camaraderie.
Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.
The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.
To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness – that we call occultism – leads to freedom.
Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.
Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the circle of fear. The body has created a magnificent arena of fear. We have developed ways of seeing life that exclude us from seeing life.
All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning mind, a side that can only be known and experienced intuitively by emptying one’s own mind of thoughts.
When you look at a couch you don’t really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.
Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.
You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don’t come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.