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Mystics
Among Us
Mysticism is a natural
state of being.
All babies are mystics.
Babies instinctively know they are the center of the universe. They
expect all their needs to be met. They understand, "Ask and ye shall
receive." Just watch mom jump and leap every time baby cries.
Child-development specialists tell us an infant distinguish between where
baby stops and the world begins. Babies have not learned the concept
of separation. They know the whole world is just another part of
themselves. Babies are not handicapped by words like "God" to which
we have added connotations. Babies have not yet been contaminated
by the race-mind.
Babies function on a total feeling level.
Every religion, in one
way or another, asks us to become as a child. So mysticism is not
only our origin, but also the goal. Most people realize that we express
life in stages, from childhood, to adolescence, to adulthood. But
many are not aware that there is a fourth stage to be achieved:
the independent, all-seeing,all-knowing child.
The people who achieve
this level are often called mystics. Sometimes they are deified,
because we do not understand that we can achieve the same level of enlightenment.
But if you read the teachings of the mystics, we are promised that we too
can do all that they have done.
We all achieve mysticism
in this lifetime, however, some of us are so attached to the body, that
we must lay the body down to achieve mysticism. Compare the near-death
experience to birth; pushing through the tunnel, moving towards the light.
We move from one mystical
experience to the next.
The time inbetween is
spent remembering who we really are.
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