Experiential Mystery

Embrace the Mystery

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

                                  William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

         In her book, The Power of the Mind to Heal (p. 35-36), Joan Borysenko recounts a story of a man named John who has a heart attack in his office at work, and suddenly finds himself outside his body.  He watches while co-workers administer CPR and call 911 for help.  Instantly, he sees the paramedics preparing to come to his rescue.  They are some distance away and as they are leaving their station, one of them knocks over a cup of coffee.  John watches it spill across the floor.  Obviously, they save his life, and he later asks the paramedics if the coffee incident really happened.  They confirmed that it had, in fact, happened just as he saw it.

        

         Stories like this, while they sound “woo-woo” to our ears, are reported routinely by people who have near-death experiences and by people who have the ability to leave their bodies routinely.  We are so accustomed to being confined to our five senses that it’s a stretch to believe them, except that the person is able to recount details of their ‘journey’ that are verifiable.  This demonstrates that we are more than our bodies, and leads to speculation on the nature of mind.

         We know that certain discharges of energy in the right temporal lobe of the brain are associated with mystical experience; visions of light and the urge to write material of a religious nature.  That seems to be the point of circuitry, if you will, for the commonly reported vision of traveling through a tunnel toward light and for feelings of uncommon peacefulness and love.  However, that doesn’t explain the ability to leave the body, transmigrate to remote locations and observe actual events.  For that, we need to suspend disbelief and accept that there are things we simply can’t explain using the limited information we possess. 

         We are energetic beings and as such, are not as concrete as we would like to believe.  Information from our physical world comes to us constantly though intuitive means, not by way of the left brain, but through the primitive, non-thinking brain that is as old as primordial life on this planet.  We receive information that our bodies react to without processing, almost instantaneously, when a threat is perceived.  As Borysenko would say, we are much greater than we think.  Love the mystery that is you today.

                                  Here’s a remote hug,

                                  Jane