“Entering the Palace”
“All six of the new arrivals felt as if they had been born afresh, had left behind the suffering and ignorance of the world through which they had formerly moved. Here was a new start, a chance to live in a manner that accorded with their finest impulses, that was attuned to the love in […]
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“Upon entering the Palace, the six friends found themselves inside a spacious cave. Water from several waterfalls cascaded down the sides of the cave. Beautiful gardens, fresh with fragrant, multi-colored flowers, spread around its edges. Smooth, sandy paths wound through the space, and soft lights shone down from its upper portions. Realized Beings sat here […]
Continue reading“World as Painting”
“The friends felt themselves to be immersed in a gigantic and living abstract painting. The world had become transformed into a chorus of dancing streamers of sublime and pulsing hues. Sonca now spoke. “The heavens are announcing the birth of the Palace of Perfect Wisdom. Nature herself is celebrating this momentous event. The atmosphere is […]
Continue reading“Sky Dance”
“Their attention was drawn upward to the sky, which was performing a magic such as none of them had ever imagined possible. The noontime sun had disappeared, and in its place were cascades of northern lights. Immense multi-hued prisms, like kaleidoscopes fashioned from watermelon tourmaline, like psychedelic meteor showers, stretched down to Earth from the […]
Continue reading“Levitation”
“Then an amazing thing happened. As the friends stared rapt at the transparent Palace, they all began to feel amorphous. The usual weight that one associates with the presence of the body disappeared, and in its place came a sensation of lightness. They started to feel as if they were made up of a collection […]
Continue reading“Death and Rebirth”
“After the passage of some time, which none of them could possibly have defined in terms of extent, the scintillations of Truth stopped. Spontaneously, they all lay down on their backs in the grass. Each had the experience of dying. They felt their bodies become inert, unfeeling, sensationless. Breathing ceased. No images or thoughts appeared […]
Continue reading“Scientific Spirituality”
“Scientists had their say. Einstein’s words appeared: “Reality is merely an illusion.” Schrodinger said that the universe was a living mind, and Newton opined that gravity and other natural forces were “thoughts in the mind of God.” Eddington added that “All through the physical world runs that unknown content, which must surely be the stuff […]
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