Yawn, sounds like my evening meditation..... --- matrixmonitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> at the http://www.synchronicity.org website: > > > Excerpt > "It was an early spring day in 1970, shortly before > my twenty-fifth > birthday, and I was visiting friends who had just > returned from a > business trip to India and other Far Eastern > countries. While sharing > their travels with me, they talked about having met > an enlightened > master in India. They seemed most devout as they > described the > encounter, for he had impressed them with his > illumination, and they > had experienced deep spiritual inspiration. > > They asked if I would like to see a photograph of > him. When I agreed, > they handed me a small card designed like a temple > with folding flaps > for doors. I opened it casually and looked at the > black-and-white > photograph of the man inside. If I had a million > words, I could not > adequately describe the magnitude of what I > experienced over the next > few hours. > > As I focused on the photograph, my eyes seemed to > lock in an open > gaze, and my whole body followed, relinquishing all > volitional > control. The photograph dissolved into a whirlpool > of scintillating, > hallucinogenic energy. I was immersed in a > rose-and-blue-colored > magnificence, permeated with minute particles of > dancing, diamond > like light that slowly moved upward and entered the > area just above > the center of my eyebrows. > > A multitudinous explosion erupted from the depths of > my being and > reverberated through every dimension of my > perception, as an > intoxicating bliss saturated me from head to toe. > The most sacred > peace filled all and everything. Time was suspended > within an all- > encompassing stillness, and from the subtlest > dimensions an ethereal > and heavenly music softly echoed-violins, harps, a > lone flute, and > the tinkling of a thousand glass wind chimes > sounding within the > harmonic oneness of an angelic choir. > > I experienced a divine, awe-inspiring, yet totally > nurturing > contentment beyond all contentment. Wave upon wave > of undulating > ecstasy radiated outward to infinity. Everything > within this > shimmering reverberation was disappearing, all form > dissolving into > itself, a reflection of hallucinogenic light within > an ocean of > delight. > > I continued to observe my two friends, but their > bodies had become > multidimensional. I could see to the utmost core of > their beings, > which in each case was a small point of iridescent > blue light. > Luminosity flowed in all directions from these > points of blue light, > manifesting as their forms, and intermingling with > all other forms, > as they blended one into each other. > > All and everything manifested as a merging sea of > blissful, luminous > energy, joyously delighting within itself-the most > beautiful reality > that one could ever imagine. That was divine > existence, absolute, > free, and independent, celebrating itself for the > sake of itself. > This was the one without a second, a pure awareness > through which an > other-worldly voice reverberated its truth: "I am > one I am free I am > all that is." > > Suspended within this awareness beyond all time, I > merged in it, > flowing, floating, dancing, delighting, enjoying the > freedom of > oneness as I remained a quiescent witness. My mind > was stilled in awe > of the heavenly majesty. Bliss consumed every cell > of my being. The > loving voice again reiterated its affirmation: I am > one I am free I > am the play of consciousness I am all that is I > am I I I " The > ethereal echo gradually disappeared as it was > reabsorbed into the > fullness of its all-pervasive unity. > > I remained within the ecstasy of its incredible > reality for what > seemed like an eternity, and then ever so gently it > diminished, > contracting itself and condensing into physicality. > The energy > released itself through the space between my > eyebrows, and like a > whirlpool wound its way back into the photograph in > my hands. > > My body unlocked, along with my gaze, and everything > seemed to return > to normal, yet I was never to be the same. For I had > come face to > face with the divine. I had scaled the heights of > the ultimate > reality that I considered to be God alone, Source > alone, and nothing > else could ever take its place." > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
