Visions Unusual

All through the ages mystics, prophets and thinkers of both eastern and western hemispheres have said in unison, there are other kingdoms of nature, other than the material, and we are wondering today, could they be right after all? Mankind stands as a personality with the past behind, a present that is full of chaos, a future that is unknown and finds itself facing the portal of a metaphysical world. A cycle has come to an end and we have mastered the physical body but now what? What does the future hold? In spite of our loud physical world some of us begin to perceive a world that is immaterial. Although blinded and deaf most of the time, some of us do have bouts of clear vision of another world, a subtler state of being and we begin to wonder. Paracelsus said, "From the external we come to know the internal, for that reason, the external heaven is a guide to the heaven within...." And Jung tells us: "Pure psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe. What happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and more subjective reaches of the psyche."

We are accustomed to look upon the universe with a limited lens of our five senses and our experiences of the physical world are influenced by our belief system. True conceptions, however, are only secured by spiritual insight. This insight requires a quickening of the vibrations of the mind, and this is only secured when the mind is continuously concentrated in a given direction. In other words, in order to activate our mind, we need to exercise it.

Growth is one long period of building in order to destroy. Constructing in order to later disorganize, developing certain rhythmic processes in order to disrupt them later and to force the old rhythm to give way to the new. The well known saying ‘whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap’ says it clearly. Actions do not produce themselves, it is we who cause actions and experience their reactions. It is we who set up causes and feel their effects. It is not God who does it to us. We are responsible for our actions; therefore, it is we who activate the energies and do good or evil to each other through our thoughts, feelings and actions. There is no action unless there is a being to make it happen and to feel its effects, and what more we never act alone. We always act on and in connection with others, affecting them for good or evil and we get the necessary reactions, short term or long term, from the causes set in motion by ourselves. This presents to us the idea of absolute justice. ‘The Law of Justice,’ another universal law. It is this law that is referred to when we are told ‘God will punish you!’

Each one of us has the same power to perceive, to experience and to learn, however, what we learn differs, our perceptions differ, and our application of our power differs. If we change our ideas and our attitudes, we change our actions. One way to eliminate a lot of hardships from our lives would be to learn to recognize, to understand, to respect and to cooperate with the laws of the universe.