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| An Experience
At that moment all the surroundings
around me began to fade into some sort of thin, transparent glass-like material. The
sounds around me were also transformed; the sounds of the birds, the wind against the
trees and the grass, the murmur and whispers of the people, the occasional airplane, even
the words of our guide merged into -- or gave way to -- the single, most powerful,
all-encompassing sound. Coming in beats (much like those of a heart), it seemed like
terrible explosions of raw energy originating from the center of the Absolute were
bombarding the phenomenal world, and they made everything vibrate -- like thunder, only
infinitely more powerful. All which belonged at that moment to the physical world faded as
it merged into an immense, brilliant, white background which seemed to grow out of the
voidness behind the now transparent phenomena. It seemed to be pure light. Everything
faded and kept on fading (or was the light growing and growing?) leaving only the light,
as if some great, cosmic, planet sized camera taking our picture had activated its
blinding flash. I felt as if I was in a dream; a dream where all phenomena was illusion,
for everything around me -- the trees, the grass, the walls and roof of the house, the
people and even the clouds and the blue sky, even Diana's eyes and face -- faded into what
turned out to be the only reality in that eternal moment: the Clear Light. |
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