Given the personal challenges that this Spirited Soul is going through at the moment, focusing on the mystical, pausing for stillness and connection, is even more important to me now.

I haven’t had much time or energy for blog posts, so today I decided to re-blog the post above, from a fellow kindred soul on WordPress. I thought pairing this entry with the quote below from a discussion on my Facebook page with my friend and supporter, Christian, was appropriate for today.

I had posted there: “Just because something can be explained scientifically, doesn’t make it any less mystical. In fact, for me it makes it more so. Science & Spirit are not mutually exclusive. They enhance one another, just as good partners should.”

Another friend asked me to define my meaning of the word “mystical”. I replied, “Mystical, meaning: magical, mysterious, other-worldly, miraculous, brilliant…I was watching a very ethereal reflection of water in a glass shimmering and dancing on the ceiling. If I didn’t know better, I’d have thought I was being visited by an unknown entity…then again, maybe I was…in reflected form. Just musing…”

And here was Christian’s response; too good to let slip by…

“Mystical is the unknown that encompasses all — matter, energy, space, love, nothing, waves — and the way that all interacts; it is at one and the same time the merging of one’s love with the fundamental organizational energy. The mystical is luminous: we are in awe; we are terrified by it. The mystical resides in the infinite; it is the acceptance that the infinite can never be known. It is the knowledge and experience that the Self and the infinite coincide. It is the unknown that is unknowable.” ~ Christian Gerike, Wise Gentleman & Scholar

Stop, drop and listen…It’s all right there…Right here. Everywhere.

~ Maggie