How You Act Toward the Mystical

In my mind, we’re all trying to get the same thing. All craving, all desire, all sickness, is longing for the mystical.

There are many entryways: drugs, spirituality, flow junkies, Burning Man enthusiasts, the occult—so many. And they each have their own specialties and challenges.

But the challenge that is shared across them is that the further you go down any particular path, the less likely you are to recognize your fellow seekers traveling along any other path.

There are some methods that just don’t get you in. Don’t even try.

But then there are the paths that get you in, but don’t give you any stability there so you can’t build.

Or maybe you’ve found a way in, but you can only be in there alone, or you don’t recognize others. Or you’ve devoted yourself to one of the more rigid paths and you don’t have a lot of creativity once you get in there because you’re so bound up in duty.

Or you’re so bound by ethics on the outside that you’re not able to come when beckoned to enter.

And while these many doorways may be open to all applicants, most require some fairly intensive translation to apply to the experiences of some interested parties.

By and large, women are so cut off from the mystical state that they don’t even realize their natural being exists closer to her than the spiritual leaders they would try to emulate. Their access to the field would be better by un-translating their own experience than trying to get it to make sense in the masculine traditions of silence and restraint.

How you act toward the mystical experience determines the world you will enter once you are inside it.