The Winds of Wonder

The Divine associated with the physical world

21 August 1971

For me the mantra comes spontaneously. At times it’s very intense, very much in the forefront; at times it’s … like something very vast — very vast — and very tranquil. When that is there circumstances aren’t important, everything, all is calmly divine. At times it becomes powerful and active: that depends … on something that is happening somewhere.

The Divine seems to be closely “associated” with the physical world, so much so that it seems the physical would have no foundation, no continuity if it weren’t so.

I am having some activities at night, completely new, extremely concrete and in which living people are mingled with those we call dead — and they are the SAME there. I am discovering a world I didn’t know. It’s a world I was totally unaware of.

Only those with a physical body have the kind of reactions — pleasure, displeasure — we have in physical life. The others no longer have it. That seems to disappear with the purely physical consciousness. I get the feeling we know nothing. That there is an infinite variety of things, and we know nothing.