“The six friends were out walking together on a glorious spring day. The richness of up-sprouting life revealed itself to them through every sensory system. The heady smells of the fertile earth passed through their nostrils on the way to intoxicating their brains. Their ears heard the soughing of the vernal breeze, which carried life-giving […]
Continue reading“The Palace existed as a sort of prelapsarian mini-world: here, humankind had not yet “fallen” into sin and ignorance. Innocence ruled the day with its gentle hand, waving a flower rather than a sword. Love here was not something that flashed on and off, appearing when conditions were right but disappearing when they weren’t; rather, […]
Continue reading“The Sheikh now looked around before answering. He pulled several times on his beard. “This Palace is like the finest mosque imaginable. It is like the Kaaba for all faiths and beliefs. Here I find that everyone is constantly in prayer. Every breath here is devoted to Allah. Every action is intended to glorify Him.” […]
Continue reading“What was really happening in the sudden disappearances was this: highly evolved souls were seeing, in a deep meditation or prayer session, the Palace of Perfect Wisdom. Once they saw it, as real before their inner eye as an object would have appeared to their physical eyes, they experienced a profound desire to unite with […]
Continue reading“The following day, there was a huge group meditation on a meadow inside the Palace. Hundreds of people gathered there. They were dressed in clothing suitable to their own spiritual traditions. There were mystical nuns in black tunics, shaved-headed Buddhist monks in ochre robes, Hindu sannyasis in loincloths, bearded and black-hatted kabbalists, horned-capped and befeathered […]
Continue reading“Finally, Gwyneth stopped dead on the road and placed one hand above her eyes. She was peering into the near distance. “Well, you could just knock me over with a feather!” she exclaimed. The girls followed her eyes and saw a simple, old, board house of a style more than a hundred years old. “That’s […]
Continue reading“People outside the Palace might have thought of those within it as unproductive because they didn’t perform a normal job. But the truth was that these residents worked in the most important occupation there is: raising the level of consciousness of the planet. Wise Beings realize that the attention of one who is Enlightened produces […]
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