The big bang.......

Today I was taken up to the grey cloudy area of “un-knowing”, way above the mountains. J pointed to a small door in the distance, so we went to it and opened it. Inside, from the door, a  passage led to a narrow flight of stairs. We went down these and came out on to a beach. We walked out across the sand and knelt to look at the sea. On the horizon appeared a golden ball, and I said, “The sun.” J said yes, but it wasn’t the usual sun.  It came across to us over the sea, and up the beach towards us. Finally it enveloped us, and then I realized we were going up in it, as in a balloon. It rose up and up, and we could look out across the sea. J said, “The seas of knowledge.” And then, looking at me to see that I was getting the message, said, “And this sun is the light of inspiration, lighting up the sea.”

We travelled above the sand along the shore-line, and then descended back down on to the sand, and looked around us. As we stood enjoying the scene a new light arose along the horizon. It rose up across the sky, brighter and brighter, and finally it exploded in millions of golden “fire-works” all across the sky. J said, “The explosion of realization.” He asked me to think back again to the "cloud of unknowing". Then the seas of knowledge. Then the light of inspiration. Then the explosion of realization. The light of the explosion lit up the sea, and the beach, and ourselves, and it formed an arc across the horizon.

"A Spiritual Diary"