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What do you mean, negative? |
She told me that something incredible had happened to her. She now receives ‘messages’. “You know me,” she says (I shall call her Marijke),
“I never believed in ‘entities’ and that sort of thing. But now…I don’t know…I really don’t know what to think.” Yet the tone of her voice reveals that actually she does know. She is convinced that the voice which she hears within comes from somewhere else.
“His name is Zimmer,” says Marijke (I have changed this name as well).
“Did you give him this name?” “Of course not. That’s what he calls himself.”
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Consciousness seems to me to be like a small house in a primitive forest. Within this house there is light but outside there is only darkness, the darkness of the Great Unknown. It is out of this Great Unknown that everything happens to us that can change our lives: strokes of fate, unexpected meetings and their serious consequences, illness, accidents, good fortune, illumination – and death. It is not human to simply accept the Unknown. We want to know what determines our fate and the fate of the world.
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‘If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him,’ the Zen master Rinzai once said . In other words, watch out for images, especially holy images. Whatever image you may receive, it always remains your imagination. Human consciousness certainly does not operate as a calm, clear mirror.
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Another word for mysticism is the numinous. This is also literally the truth. We have a spiritual experience which cannot be put into words without reducing or even perhaps smoother it. There are simply no words to express that which we experience at such moments of transporting ecstasy.
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I do not believe that one can say anything with certainty about the source of 'enlightenment'. Visual images, on the contrary, can sometimes be traced, and even though the conclusion can never be certain.
There are number of images for which I always feel a particular fascination. For instance, I always get goose bumps when I imagine a group sitting around a campfire at sunset. Such a scene appears, by the way, in my novel Revelation of fire, and a similar party sits by a riverbank in the 'modern apocryphal' ‘Nog een messias’.
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Realistic departure points |
Over the years I have collected a series of departure points which are important for me in finding my own path within mysticism. I shall simply list them one by one.
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Realistic Mysticism
