Evening Post. Mystical talk of the `All & Nothing.

The mystics talk of the ultimate reality as the `All and Nothing`, using paradoxical phrases such as `The Clear Light of the Void` and `The Dazzling Darkness`

Science teaches if there were to be only pure light with nothing for it to illuminate, it would paradoxically be totally dark. Like God who cannot be seen, yet is everywhere bringing all things into existance, light reveals everything. (let you and me become enlightened spirits.)

Modern physics has wrestled with the paradox that light sometimes appears as make up of particles and sometimes as a wave, depending on the way the experiment is set up. This is directly

comparable to the mystic`s observations about consciousness. From the perspective of our normal awareness each individual is a discrete particle of consciousness that we experience as `you` and `me`. But from the sublime perspective of the mystics there is only one consciounsness and individuals are no more than waves rising and falling on thisone ocean of being. When a mystic experiences pure consciousness he ceases to experience himself as a distinct `particle` of consciousness, and knows himself to be a `wave` - a transitory disturbance on the Sea of God that is his ultimate and only true identity. There are waves, but they are wholly made up up of the sea.(I can be glad to say that I am a drop in the ocean and the ocean is in this drop.) The mysticceases to focus on the objects which light reveals, and is aware of the one light which reveals them. He turns his attention from the contents of consciousness, and focuses on consciousness Itself - the sense of `I AM`. He sees the light. He is enlightened.

From its earliest beginnings in the Greek Mystery Schools to the amaxing moder insights of Albert Einstein, science has always been a soure of mystical wonder.Einstein wrote:

The most important function of science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive... It isvery difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desire and aims and the sublimity and marvellous order which reveal themselves both in nature and the world of thought. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

I dont know about you but thats strikes a cord with me!

Buster must go out now, so I shall bid you a good night. Your brother, Peter.