Mystics Can Share Something
John L. Waters
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September 4, 2002
Revised September 6, 2002
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Mystics can share something, and according to Phil Servedio
and other advanced students of mystical experience and
the guru tradition, a guru or teacher of the mystic
transmits the sense of that something to a serious
student by sustained eye contact with the pupils of
the eyes dilated.� In other words, since a person's
pupils dilate as he or she is looking at something
appealing, the sharing of mystical vision is
pleasurable to both the mystic and the disciple.� The
question we are investigating is what this something
IS.� By just giving a word for IT, we don't really
understand IT.��
What do we mean by understanding?� How do we
understand how the sun shines and how a feather
falls?� How do we understand how a man walks?� To
understand how a man walks, it helps us to repeatedly
walk.� To understand how a feather falls, it helps us
to� repeatedly pick up a feather and observe it
falling from our hand.� To understand how the sun
shines it helps us to recreate the reactions in the
sun and repeatedly set off thermonuclear explosions.�
To understand the mystical sense of unity and peace it
helps us to repeatedly share with a teacher� that
something that is transmitted by sustained eye
contact.
In our Euro-American culture, however, sustained eye
contact without speech is taboo.� Young children are
taught not to stare at someone.� People consider it
impolite to just gaze blankly at someone without
having a conversation with them.� Consequently, even
if some children happen to sense what the mystic
senses, it isn't possible for such a child to teach
other children the mystical sense of something other
than what is called electromagnetic light.� Young eyes
are trained to see what the camera records, not what
the special vision that a guru sees and projects.�
This vision has been described by
Gopi Krishna as a "silvery luster" that was part of
everything he saw after he had become sensitive in the
way that a mystic is sensitive.� But what if we are
curious about WHAT that IS?
Because our society trains children to avoid�staring
blankly at people and other objects, children are
trained to converse and to always be thinking in terms
of words and naming whatever they are looking at.�
Individual persons have different names.� Different�
stones have different names.� Different animals and
different� trees have different names.� Even clouds
and stars are named.� Good children, smart children,
intellectually keen children are the ones who remember
many names and think rapidly and accurately using
words.� But the teacher of mystical sensibility
teaches each student of the mystic to cultivate what
called "no mind."� To transmit the sense of IT, the
teacher tells the student to clear from his or her
mind all naming, wordiness, and thought.� In our
Euro-American society, though, this goes against what
all children are taught and all good and intelligent
boys and girls seldom if ever do.
What is the point, then, in taking older students and
young men and women and sharing something with them,
something that requires a person to violate what for
centuries has been a socio-cultural taboo?� Well, IT
is rather like the high mountain visible in the
distance.� Some persons say that they want to climb
the mountain because "It is there."� In so doing,
however, many young persons can slip and fall from a
high place and be destroyed, because they don't really
know how to safely climb a high mountain.� So before
we start climbing a distant and most dangerous
mountain, we practice climbing up small mountains.
The higher you go the more you can see all around and
far below.� You become elevated in mood and in
outlook.� During a time of war you rise above the
provincial hatred of the enemy and you see that the
hawks on the other side are as limited in perception
as the hawks on your own side.� From the higher
consciousness the mystic sees how people on both sides
are trapped in their state of having low elevation and
narrowed perspective.� Nations burn and bleed because
neither the people nor their leaders can rise higher
and see the whole reality...the big picture.
From the high place a mystic can view the different
religions and see the people arguing and fighting over
which religion is true.� What�a mystic senses is the
reality of every inspired teacher, but the inspired
teachers of the past couldn't explain this reality to
people so that more people could�experience that
reality in their own lives.� Instead of experiencing
that reality, the followers of one teacher just
repeated the words of the teacher without
understanding the process that inspired the teacher to
speak or write.� And since the teachers didn't focus
upon the clear understanding of the mystical sense and
the transmission of this sense between mystics and
between the guru and the guru's devoted students, the
basic understanding of the alternative use of the eyes
and the mind wasn't obtained.
A curious student wants to know what the eyes have to
share that isn't ordinary visible electromagnetic
light.� One can photograph a mystic staring blankly.�
One can direct a light sensitive measuring device at
the pupils of a mystic's eyes.� As far as I know these
experiments haven't been done.� Perhaps the mystic is
producing infra-red light or ultraviolet light or some
other electromagnetic pulsation that is picked up by
the devoted students, or perhaps there is another
energy in another realm that isn't physical or
electromagnetic at all.� If this is the case, one
wants to understand how this other realm can connect
with the physical realm so that both the mystic and
the mystic's disciple are able to feel in their
physical bodies the way one feels during this
transmission.� How can we understand it?
Like understanding the fall of a feather by repeatedly
picking up a feather and letting it drop from your
fingers, you come to understand the unitive
transmission by associating with a teacher and
repeatedly sensing this other sense in your own eyes
and body.� But you might not be ready to do this yet,
so you need to be introduced to this more slowly.� You
need to climb some little mountains first.
If you study many books from different religious
traditions, you will need to be gifted in memory to
keep track of all the sophisticated wordiness.� This
practice of filling the mind with volumes of verbal
terminology, description, discourse,� and
argumentation is just the opposite of what Jiddu
Krishnamurti and other prominent mystics advise.� They
advise emptying the� mind of words and reasons!�
Moreover, if you go to lectures on one religion or on
the many different religions, the same peace problem
will remain unsolved.� Under the influence of the
great verbalizers you will become a better verbalizer
but the reality of the mystic you will not be helped
to sense directly.� Thinking this over you see why all
the modern cultures still are kept in a catch-22, and
why lasting peace hasn't yet been possible.
Because of the socio-cultural taboo concerning the
alternative use of the eyes and the mind, even
prominent scholars avoid this subject.� Their very
verbal brains were conditioned to function in a
different way from the brains of the natural, naive
mystics.� As children the natural, naive mystics were
rather empty-headed the way Jiddu Krishnamurti was as
a boy.� This empty-headedness of the young
Krishnamurti is documented.� In the Indian school, the
boy Krishnamurti was caned every day as a boy because
of his "autism."� He was a very sensitive and
perceptive child, without the means of communicating
to others what he was perceiving.
Nevertheless, many nonverbal children who are
diagnosed
use their body language to draw our attention to a
mathematical formula for unity that defines unity as
the product of a clockwise circular movement and a
counterclockwise circular movement.� The autistics
spin objects or whirl their whole bodies as do the
whirling dervishes who do this to attain the mystical
sense of unity.� Circular movement defines the rocking
movement many autistics engage in.� This topic is
covered in another article.
The autistic person doesn't think and speak well�using
words.� Instead, the autistic person thinks and speaks
directly through his or her own body movement.� This
body movement often shows us vibrations such as finger
waving, hand flapping, body rocking, and flipping a
toggle switch on and off over and over and over
again.� This is like a confused person thinking
"yes-no, yesno, yes-no-yes-no yes no-ise" in a
confused and chaotic psychobabble.� The body expresses
this confusion in thinking in terms of vibration of
physical objects.� Attention shifts from vacillations
in thinking to physical vibration itself and circular
movement.� Repetitive body movement is vibratory.�
Examples include the beating heart, the lungs
contracting and expanding, walking, running, rocking
the body, flapping the hands, waving the fingers, and
spinning the body around and around.� Humming is also
a vibration in the throat.
Autistic children are often seen to gaze blankly off
into space without making sustained eye contact with
another person.� Autistics in fact tend to avoid
looking directly at a person and making eye contact.�
The persons who�treat this autism try to get the
autistic child to make eye contact with a person who
is talking and thinking.� But the autistic child isn't
talking or thinking.� The autistic child is sensing in
this mystical autistical way that shows us the unity
felt in vibratory activity.� The mathematical formula
for unity shows us the same definition of unity in
terms of vibratory activity.� This formula shows us
the definition of unity in terms of vibratory activity
even if we don't pay any attention to the vibratory
activity in autistic children and the children's
baffling and bizarre habit of gazing blankly off into
space.
The situation is confused and complicated by the fact
that traditional society holds the mystic saint or god
to be in an elevated social position while relegating
the autistic child to a subhuman level.� Mystics,
saints, and gods are elevated to superhuman status
while autistics are relegated to subhuman status.�
Unity, however, is mathematically defined as the
product of two spinning movements, one clockwise and
the other counterclockwise.� All the mathematical
definitions of unity= the number one are equivalent in
meaning.� These definitions all define the natural
unity which is the first counting number.� This
understanding�cuts through the socio-cultural
confusion, mystique, and mystery.
Using words as in this article�to define, describe,
and debate various issues connected with unity is one
way to begin to understand unity.� Studying
mathematical language is another way to begin to
understand unity.� Watching mystics and autistics
perform vibratory movements is a third way to begin to
understand unity.� Then there is the fourth way, which
is to imitate the behaviors of these speechless
persons whose body language gives examples of the
mathematical definition of unity that is based on
vibrations.� So these four ways of approaching the
problem of peace are hereby�given.� They are tools for
an aspiring young mountain climber to master.
Perhaps an autistic child doesn't ever make eye
contact at least partly because he or she uses the
brain, the eyes, and the body largely�to sense and
express a special comfort one is able to sense in
himself or herself rather than the comfort felt by
nonautistic persons as they share words and other
communications and use their eyes, their brains, and
their bodies to catch and hold the attention of other
persons.� The introverted autistics have focused on a
subtle individual sensitivity to existence while the
extroverted non-autistics have focused on subtle
communications to and from other persons.� Each type
of person�has something valuable to offer humanity,
but integrating these two modes of human functioning
has been difficult.� Sigmund Freud, for example,
considered introversion pathological.��
Note that often the sense of unity is shared by a guru
or spiritual master in satsang by means of sustained
eye contact which isn't accompanied by body movement,
by speech, or by conscious thinking, planning,
visualization, or wordiness.� The master uses gazing
to share with a disciple this sense of peace which
each spiritual master cultivates.
Brief Descriptions:
What does it feel like and what do you see as you
gaze into the eyes of a person who is sensing the
natural unity?� Here are four reports by independent
observers:
1.� Quote from a devotee of the spiritual teacher
"Two weeks ago I didn't know what satsang or Gangaji
was.� But when I saw your tape and I looked into your
eyes, the longing was fulfilled. I didn't see form, I
saw my heart."(1)
2.� The writings of saints and mystics describe what
it is like to experience The Divine Unity.� Consider
Austin Rust's experience in the presence of
"I was transfixed in eye to eye contact with Him. Then
I had the experience that He was in me and outside of
me simultaneously. I experienced Him within myself at
the very center of my Being. I then realized that He
was the one Whom I served. I was His servant and would
help pave the way for His reappearance to the best of
my limited ability."
Benjamin Cr�me continues:
"In retrospect, I realize that my experience of the
Christ in Dallas fits Jung's theory of the Self
Archetype. I became conscious of the Self at the
center of my being through my encounter with Benjamin
Cr�me being overshadowed by Maitreya and entered into
a relationship with that Self. The Self, the Christ
Maitreya, became for me a subjective reality at the
center of my psyche. The Christ is, for me, a real
Person with Whom I have had eye to eye contact."(2)
3.� Quote in a recent letter from Phil Servedio
who
has studied under many recognized spiritual masters:
When asked in an e-mail, "In your article "Breaking
the Hymen Of The Heart" you
describe "Gazing with Lawrence was really a meeting in
being, heart to heart and wonderfully opening for me."
�Would you explain what you mean by "gazing with"?
Were you gazing at the same scene together or were you
gazing at each other?"
Phil Servedio answered:
"John, We were gazing into each others eyes. This is a
common form of
initiation and transmission in various schools, eyes
being the 'window to the soul', so to speak, and more.
Gazing is very powerful and moving stuff."(3)
4.� Quote from Molly Jones, a devotee of Adi Da
formerly Da Free John and Franklin Jones:
"It was as though someone had turned on 10,000 lights.
�The actual physical light in the tent had not
changed, but the vibratory level of energy went way,
way up, and it was visible as a form of light
emanating from Avatara Adi Da's body..... Everyone was
singing and gazing at Avatara Adi Da.� He looked
fiercely around the room, resting His gaze on
different people as He slowly moved His head.� I felt
His Love absolutely, without� qualification."(4)
Notes And References:
1.Taken from the webfile
http://www.gangaji.org/satsang/library/excerpts/darknt.htm
2.Taken from the webfile
http://www.friendsofm.com/wib/wib.html
3.Personal communication.�� website
http://www.well.com/user/phils/index.html
4.Taken from� Beyond Comprehension, a story of
one devotee's first encounter with���� Avatara Adi Da.
P.27 from the booklet An Introduction To Adi Da.
1:00PM Sunday, September 1, 2002
Revised Tuesday, September 3, 2002
Revised Wednesday, September 4, 2002
Revised Thursday, September 5, 2002
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