Mystic Seed

About the Book

A series of poems in simple settings, where many point beyond themselves to fundamental sage teaching, which include the awareness of the ego self as an illusion. A realisation of the one self of the world, deathlessness, timelessness, the unborn self of Buddhism and the lila/maya, (the illusory and playful nature of the divine as an insight of the upanishads). Wonder,according to Goethe, is the highest that man can achieve, faced with the infi nite and eternal. The mystical utterances of Christ as opposed to monotheistic belief.

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An article by the Author

TRUE MYSTICISM

True mysticism can be defined as a classical or scholarly understanding, in contrast with it's much abused, popular use today, of any loose connection with the occult. I do not say that areas within paganism are completely devoid of divine awareness. To make this more explicit one might suggest a rather obvious comparison say between St John of the Cross to the contemporary figure of mystic Meg! Or witchcraft, Druid symbolism against The enlightenment of J Krishnamurti or Ramana Maharshi. If we draw on insight from Advaita/Vedanta or even the mystical utterances of Jesus the Nazarene, we may eventually arrive at the understanding, in knowledge and experiential terms, that ultimately in divine reality, only one thing, or rather 'no thing', actually 'is' or exists. (ie one existential 'no thing'). This discovery Turns our vision upside down, so to speak, or in Lao Tzu terms, the other way around, as Alan Watts would have it. Major religions are the cradles of mystical truth though they have often fought against it in their own particular midst. We have the Sufi mystics persecuted by mainstream Islam and Christians did the same to their mystics in history, often murdering them. Reminiscent of this is Jesus (the mystic) put to death by the church of his day for declaring not an heretical theology but simply what he felt. I personally sense Jesus as the embodiment of true mysticism, as he uttered what he felt that he was one with the all. A cosmic consciousness and the cosmic empathiser. Christendom seems to me to be a classic example of the disaster of emulation from trying to follow a teacher, rather than the teaching. 'When a finger points to moon, only fool looks at finger' and as Watts has said, Christians appear to suck it for comfort! 'You search the scriptures daily for you think you have life in them' said Jesus, pointing to their lack of inward life that they must turn the very scriptures into an idol. Monotheistic religions draw on divine transcendence while ignoring divine immanence. True mysticism is simple then. Simply the negation of all idolatry, both tangible and intangible, including biblical idolatry. It is also the various spiritual paths that lead us to self and no-self enquiry, where the ground of all may be touched. Alan Watts is correct to say, 'there is a taboo against knowing 'who' and 'what' we are'. A taboo that we are unaware of or that we tacitly ignore.

About the Author

Who and what I am has been the driving force behind my life, for many years. the more I learned from this quest the more I realised my 'Nothingness' as beseeched by Blaise Pascal.