A WORD OF TRUTH

[June 17, 2013 at 3:05am]

Let me tell you the truth, an activity for which I am justly well known.

Atheists, who are “good for nothing” (--Mark Twain) are pretty much satisfied with where they are, and skeptics — who are pretty much unhappy wherever they are — may not understand a word I am about to write.

There is an elevated human experience that goes beyond words.

Simple as that.

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It is also true that glimpses into this 'elevated' field of experience return variously garbled into our normal, mundane consciousness. This is because as experience exceeds BOTH the power of language and our ability to speak it AND our power of imagination to translate information into a form, both of those faculties become frantic with seeking.

What we -- the masses of consensus-thinkers -- get, is the story-teller's life-metaphor.

Critics can easily say “there are no such caves in Australia” (Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan), “Yaqui Indians say they have never met anyone named Don Juan” (Carlos Castaneda), or “Ha! Imagine golden plates with a written language dug up in America” (The Book of Mormon).

Truth exists beyond language. Truth is the taller mountain.

Trying to describe that mountain above the Word Line is going to meet with some confusion. Need I add doubt, disbelief, hostility and hatred?

That's why the New Testament is such a strange tale. Consider twelve witnesses each telling a different story. That's because each witness told the truth in his (or her) own language.

Windows into this higher experience -- the Grand Epiphany -- occasionally pass the Earth, and when they do I think every being can peek in and peak out.

After this passing opportunity to experience this higher thing, there comes a renaissance.

...followed by an afterclap of poisonous reaction. Think a moment of the Holy City.

So how do you write about an experience that transcends words?

Do you write “Alice in Wonderland”? Of Narnia? “Mutant Message Down Under”? "Don Juan"? “Hamlet”? “The Book of Mormon”? The “Bhagavad Gita”? or “Communion” like Whitley Streiber? Or would you write your own testimony which you add to the family Bible?

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*special thanks to the five people who reminded me of this bit of writing.