Describing and Defining the Mystical Energy
      
 
Describing and Defining the Mystical Energy


John L. Waters


November 13, 2000

Revised Tuesday, May 17, 2005

© Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters.

All Rights Reserved. 


Introduction:

My father Robert J.D. Waters had a special sense that
he couldn’t clearly explain or express.  This sense
made the man feel happy but this happiness came mostly
when he was alone, because other people couldn’t
understand Robert’s behavior and his verbalizations
when he was so affected.  This solitary pleasure
distracted Robert away from conscious thinking,
exchanging goods and keeping accurate records,
participating in lively conversations, including
exchanging expressive nonverbal communications,
competing for points and other prizes and engaging in
other activities that are commonly required in making
a living.

As I grew older I became increasingly curious about
what had been “wrong” with my father, so that he
couldn’t make a living and support his family.  This
growing curiosity led to my study of the mystical
energy as sensed and described by both Orientals and
Occidentals.


1.  What is the mystical energy?



The mystical energy is what you sense and project when
you have no sense of blockage, negation, worry,
shyness, anger, or stress, so that you work without
conscious effort.  In her book, "SuperMind The
Ultimate Energy," Barbara Brown M.D. calls this
higher-functioning mind "SuperMind."(1)  You may think
the mystical energy is “God” working in you or through
you.  Your mind and your body are totally integrated.



When you sense and project the mystical energy you
perform tasks that you couldn't perform before.  You
may be surprised that you are performing these tasks. 
You may think that you are being guided by a higher
intelligence or power.  This is the "SuperMind" at
work.  People may even think that you are a
“messenger” from “God.”  The ultimate message is the
total integration of the physical realm with the realm
that is not physical.



2.  What are some distinguishing characteristics of
the mystical energy?



(a)  When you are totally integrated, you are more
elevated in mood, you show better health, and you have
more energy.



For example, before you sense and project the mystical
energy you can’t live without eating fancy foods, but
after you sense and project the mystical energy you
are content eating simple foods.  To verify or
disprove this idea, more people need to test the idea
under the supervision of trained scientific
investigators.



(b)  When you are totally integrated, you require less
and less to be more and more content.



Before you sense and project the mystical energy you
seek expensive pleasures and still you aren't really
be satisfied.  But when you sense and project  the
mystical energy you are content with simple pleasures.
 To verify or disprove this idea, more people need to
test the idea under the supervision of trained
scientific investigators.

  

(c)  When you are totally integrated, you enjoy newly
discovered humor and creativity.



Before you sense and project the mystical energy, you
sometimes scoff, joke, or are mean and destructive and
you sometimes attack something or someone to relieve
your own inner tension.  After you sense and project
the mystical energy you lose this tempermentalness,
and you become more creative, more empathetic, and
more helpful to others.  You become more euphoric. To
verify or disprove this idea, more people need to test
the idea under the supervision of trained scientific
investigators.



(d)  When you are totally integrated, newly discovered
talents developed and demonstrated in you.



After you sense and project the mystical energy, you
demonstrate one or more special abilities that you
didn't demonstrate before you became filled with the
mystical energy.  For instance, you may start creating
music on a musical instrument.  You may begin to
produce art works or writings.  You may take unusual
initiative and show special intuitive ability.  To
verify or disprove this idea, more people need to test
the idea under the supervision of trained scientific
investigators.


(e)  When you are totally integrated, from moment to
moment you experience new perceptions.


You experience a new vision in your eyes, a new taste
in your mouth, a new grace in movement, and a new
sense of wellbeing.  Truly you feel born again. 
People who don’t understand total integration are not
integrated themselves, and they may insist that you
are having a “psychotic breakdown.”



3.  How Is mystical energy perceived?



Many people report that they sense mystical energy as
they are using their eyes in a way that isn't seeing
different things in detail and in depth or at a
distance.  In using the eyes in this newly discovered
way a mystic is sensing more than what he or she ever
saw before. This use of the eyes is itself a task many
people consider impossible.  Nevertheless, many
persons have become inspired and seen in this way.



Examples:



Brief Descriptions:  Sensation of The Mystical Energy:



1.  Quote from a devotee of the spiritual teacher

Gangaji:



"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."(2)



2.  Consider Austin Rust's experience in the presence

of Benjamin Creme:



"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." (3)



3.  Quote in a recent letter from Phil Servedio who

has studied under several 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."(4)



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."(5)





Mystical experiences associated with unusual visual

effects



1.  As described by Jacob Boehme:



Jacob Boehme was twenty-five years old when he

happened to glance at the reflection of sunlight in a

pewter vessel.  As he continued to gaze at the light

the shoemaker felt that he had seen into the very

heart of nature.  Leaving his cobbler's shop Boehme

walked through a gate out into the green countryside,

where he continued to be struck by a change in his

perceptions. Quoting directly from Andrew Weeks,



"Abraham von Franckenberg gave an account that has

become legendary.  Surprised by a gleam, presumably of

sunlight, in a tin or pewter vessel, the shoemaker

began to imagine that he was seeing into the secret

heart of nature, into a concealed divine world. 

Intent upon clearing his mind of this "phantasy,"

perhaps so that he could resume his shoemaking labors,

the young man went out-of-doors.  Since the city was

small, he could easily pass through a nearby gate and

into the green countryside.  There, according to

Franckenberg, the rapt cobbler continued to see all

the more powerfully into the secret "center of

nature."  Forms, lines, and colors now bore some new

meaning for him.  In his own account, the strongest

emotional effect associated with the experience was

his sense of having been embraced by divine love: as

if life had been resurrected from death, he recalled

twelve years afterward."(6)



2.  As described by Ruth Dahlen:



She gazed at a snowflake which had landed on a spruce

needle.  The needle dissolved into flickering flames

of light.  Soon the whole spruce tree was a pillar of

flame.  She saw visions of a five dimensional geometry

behind the physical universe.  She had repeated 

visions of lessening intensity over a five day period

and then these visions left her.(7)



3.  As described by Barry Stevens:



She was walking along a New York street and the sun's

reflection off a safety pin caught her eye.  As she

gazed into the bright light she experienced a rapid

sequence of thoughts which culminated in her sensing

that she had arrived at "an explanation of the

universe."(8)



4.  As described by Martinus:



"I looked right into a figure of flame...A wonderful,

elevated emotion seized me...In the white light , the

world became changed to God's Kingdom."(9)



5.  As described by C.M.C.:



"The light and color glowed, the atmosphere seemed to

quiver and vibrate around and within me....On several

occasions, weeks after the illumination described, I

distinctly felt electric sparks shoot from my

eyes."(10)



6.  As described by Gustav Fechner:



"Every flower beamed upon me with a peculiar clarity,

as though into the outer light it was casting a light

of its own....Indeed, one will hardly believe how new

and vivid is the nature which meets the man who

himself comes to meet it with new eyes."(11)



7.  As described by Alan Watts:



"The sky was in some way transparent, its blue quiet

and clear, but more inwardly luminous than ever at

high noon.  The leaves of the trees and shrubs assumed

qualities of green that were incandescent, and their

clusterings were no longer shapeless daubs, but

arabesques of  marvelous complexity and

clarity...Flowers--I remember especially the

fuchsias-were suddenly the lightest carvings of ivory

and coral."(12)



8.  As described by Orson Bean:



"The sky over the East River...was a deeper blue than

any I had seen in my life, and there seemed to be

little flickering pinpoints of light in it.  I looked

at the trees.  They were a richer green than any I had

ever seen.  It seemed as though all my senses were 

heightened.  I was perceiving with greater clarity.  I

walked home feeling exhilarated and bursting with

energy."(13)



9.  As described by a subject of Alister Hardy:



"About 14 years ago when life was difficult and I was

in a state of near despair one evening, the quality of

sunlight seemed to change, and this time, though the

scenic beauty all around was magnificent, it was the

colour and pattern of a common weed's tiny clustered 

flowers which I found I was really seeing for the

first time, and in the contemplation of which I was

again swung into that wider vision and

participation."(Quote from (821,F,63))(14)



10.  As described by David Boadella:



"If such phenomena as Reich described in the sky in

fact exist, why is it, one may reasonably ask, that

other people have not commented on them.  Let us

consider a related phenomenon that can be observed  in

the daytime, which Reich also described.  If one looks

into the daytime sky on a clear day, relaxes the eyes,

and looks into empty space, a number of minute

brilliant points of light become visible.  They appear

to dance about in whirling motions."(15)





11.  As described by Jiddu Krishnamurti:



"It was a clear morning though soon clouds would be

gathering.  As one looked out the window, the trees,

the fields were very clear.  A curious thing is

happening; there is a heightening of sensitivity.  

Sensitivity, not only to beauty but also to all other

things.  The blade of grass was astonishingly green;

that one blade of grass contained the whole spectrum

of colour; it was intense, dazzling and such a small

thing, so easy to destroy.  Those trees were all of

life, their height and their depth; the lines of those

sweeping hills and the solitary trees were the

expression of all time and space; and the mountains

against the pale sky were beyond all the gods of man. 

It was incredible to see, feel, all this by just

looking out of the window.  One's eyes were

cleansed."(16)



12.  As described by Jean-Joseph Surin:



"on a number of occasions my soul was invested with

these states  of glory, and the sunlight seemed to

grow incomparably brighter than usual, and yet was so

soft and bearable that it seemed to be of another kind

than natural sunlight.  Once when I was in this state,

I went out into the garden of our college at Bordeaux;

and so great was this light that I seemed to myself to

be walking in paradise."  Every color was more

"intense and natural," every form more exquisitely

distinct  than at ordinary times.(Huxley's

paraphrasing.)(Quotes from Jean-Joseph Surin)(17)



13.  As described by Rabindranath Tagore:



"All of a sudden a covering seemed to fall away from

my eyes,  and I found the world bathed in a wonderful

radiance, with waves of beauty and joy swelling on

every side.  The invisible screen of the commonplace

was removed from all things and all men, and their 

ultimate significance was intensified in my

mind."(Quote from Rabindranath Tagore.)(18)



4.  What is the source of mystical energy?



When you sense and project the mystical energy, you
are one source of the mystical energy.  Your senses
are changed by this.  For example, you see pine trees
and other trees which have resinous, oily, or milky
sap accumulate and project the mystical energy. 
During the evening a sensitized person can pause in a
grove of resinous trees and see many tiny sparkling
lights in each leaf.  These lights aren't visible to a
person who isn't sensing and projecting the mystical
energy.  Persons who sense and project the mystical
energy may be recognized by other people as unusually
calm, graceful, and peaceful.



5.  Is mystical energy renewable?



Yes, to the extent that evergreen trees and human

beings are renewable.



6.  Is mystical energy an entity or a process?



Mystical energy is an entity that is sensed and
integrated in body, in emotions, and in mind.  The
sensing and projecting of mystical energy is a
process.  The mystic also has to integrate his or her
own personal skills and talents with those of other
people.  This integration is the way a clear
understanding of this subject will be achieved.



7.  Where is the mystical energy perceived in the

psyche?



The mystical energy is perceived and sensed in
different parts of the psyche, as it affects taste,
smell, vision, hearing, thought, and other brain
processes.  Sensitive persons who don't understand
this sense have difficulty integrating the mystical
energy with their ordinary senses and their
rational-verbal intelligence.



8.  How does mystical energy differ from imagination?



A person who has a great imagination will conceive
hundreds of different poems, characters, stories,
melodies, or other inventions in a year.  But unlike a
song or a story, the mystical energy itself isn't an
imagined construct.  Nor does a person who has a great
imagination necessarily sense and project the mystical
energy.  The fact is, imagination is profoundly
altered by the mystical energy because imagination is
due to brain activity.  



However, when a person's brain activity is altered by
sensing and projecting the mystical energy, one’s
imagination may be over -stimulated.  One may get lots
of ideas, and never understand the actual
means by which this mental hyperactivity is produced. 
 Attributing this hyperactivity or the hyperactivity
of some other person to an imaginary God, Spirit,
demon, or psychosis doesn't provide the needed
understanding and mastery.



Furthermore, just as a man may be very imaginative and
create many new songs in a year, a person may be full
of imagination, but never become sensitized to the
mystical energy.  In this way we recognize that
imagination and the mystical energy are not at all the
same.

Conclusion:

In cultivating the sense of the mystical energy a
person is content without a lot of social interaction
and without expensive or fancy goods.  In a culture
where both children and adults compete for rare and
expensive goods, and earning a living requires one to
be very sophisticated and competitive, the sense of
the mystical energy is trained out of children.  In
such a culture, social isolation and other deviant
behaviors aren’t tolerated and very few persons sense
and project the mystical energy.  

Furthermore, the mystical energy isn’t clearly
understood.  Even today people confuse inspiration
with being afflicted by an evil spirit, a demon, or a
psychosis.  With no understanding of this sense,
children and adults who are most sensitive in this way
usually fail to realize, develop, and promote their
special talents.  Their inspiration produces material
that is substantially different from the material
produced by persons who are more social and less
isolated.  As a result the whole society becomes
frozen and remains stopped, cold dead in its tracks. 
Higher creativity that is the inspired problem-solving
intelligence has been blocked out.  To solve the
mystery of what the mystical energy actually is
requires very high problem-solving intelligence.


Notes and References:


1.  Brown, Barbara "SuperMind the Ultimate Energy."

Bantam Books, New York 1980. pages 207-209



2.  Taken from the webfile

http://www.gangaji.org/satsang/library/excerpts/darknt.asp
accessed May 16, 2005



3.  Taken from the webfile

http://www.friendsofm.com/wib/wib.html
This website no longer exists.



4.  Personal communication.   website

http://www.realization.org/page/namedoc0/serv_joa/joa_12.htm
accessed May 16, 2005
      

5.  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."



6.  Weeks, Andrew, "Boehme" (Albany:State University

of New York Press,1991),pp 1,2



7.  Jacobson, Nils M.D. "Life Without Death?" (New

York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc.,1971),p.289



8.  Rogers, Carl and Stevens, Barry "Person to Person"

(Lafayette, California: Real People Press, 1968),
p.115



9.  Jacobson, Nils M.D. "Life Without Death?" (New

York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1971), p.293-295



10.  Bucke, Richard Maurice "Cosmic Consciousness"

(New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1946). pp.
325-329



11.  Fechner, Gustav and Lowrie, Walter "Religion of a

Scientist"  (New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1946),
p.211



12.  Watts, Alan "Nature, Man, and Woman" (New York:

Pantheon Books Inc.,1958), p.125



13.  Wilson, Colin "The Quest For Wilhelm Reich"

(Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981),
p.165



14.  Hardy, Alister, F.R.S. "The Spiritual Nature of

Man- A study of contemporary religious experience"

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972. page 72



15.  Boadella, David "Wilhelm Reich- The evolution of

his work." Arkana Press London, Boston and Henley 1985

page 160



16.  Krishnamurti, Jiddu "Krishnamurti's Notebook"

Harper &  Row, Publishers New York 1976 pages 38, 39



17.  Huxley, Aldous "The Devils of Loudun" Chatto &

Windus,  London 1970 page 353



18.  Kripalani, Krishna "Rabindranath Tagore- a

biography" Grove Press, Inc. New York 1962 page 101


November 13, 2000

Revised 3:00PM Monday, May 16, 2005

Revised 11:30AM Tuesday, May 17, 2005

John Waters

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