Thoughts on the mystical tradition
As someone eager to serve the universal connection of things I was awed at this Einstein quotation displayed at a recent exhibition in the British Museum. Einstein’s prioritising of mystical experience might link to his brilliant contribution to our understanding of time. Time standing still through a sense of the eternal, feeling the closeness of what or who is transcendent, is at the heart of mysticism with its perilous beauty. These days we have time to open ourselves to what’s beyond us, though we need guidance, so we can enter Einstein’s ‘true science’. Mysticism is out of the box by its nature and hard to define. The mystical element of my life complements the functional. The difficult French writer Peguy addressed the essential balance in life between ‘mystique’ and ‘politique’. At times - and COVID 19 isolation is such a time - I’m reminded I’m a human being before I’m a human doing. That doesn’t absolve me from doing stuff to improve the world and myself but being is about sta...