Mapping Meaning and Reconnecting with The Mystic

Getting to know our 11 Wholeness Companions offers an opportunity to live from the full potential of our neurology. These life partners, wired within us, carry an inherent intelligence to ensure both our surviving and our thriving. In this post, we will explore The Mystic, the sole companion with whom we arrive into this world and into our body. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s pioneering work on The Mystic, following her stroke, sheds light on its nature. You can listen to her fascinating story here.

Author and teacher Mirabai Starr offers this definition of a mystic: "Someone who skips over the intermediaries, ordained clergy, prescribed prayers, rigid belief systems, and goes straight to God, meaning someone who experiences the divine as an intimate encounter rather than an article of faith. A mystical experience may or may not be connected to established spiritual traditions, theological structures or faith communities. Mysticism is not about concepts, it’s about communion with ultimate reality. And ultimate reality is not some faraway prize we claim when we have proved ourselves worthy to perceive it. Ultimate reality blooms at the heart of regular life. It shines through the cracks of our daily struggles and sings from the core of our deepest desires. A mystic knows beyond ideas, feels deeper than emotions, is fundamentally changed by that which is unchanging. Mysticism is a way of seeing beyond the turmoil, the rights and wrongs, the good guys and villains to the radiant heart of things."

Our Mystic safeguards the origin of our wholeness, ever-present and constant. Many of us intuitively sense that we are part of Something Greater. Our human experience actually begins through this lens. Even when we forget or deny this connection, a longing for meaning often persists.

What does it feel like to experience the world through The Mystic? Here are some characteristics:

• Being enveloped in cosmic love

• Experiencing deep inner grace

• Living a contented life, woven with joy

• Feeling a Higher Power flowing within

• Being comfortable with losing self-identity

• Experiencing awe, bliss, and ecstasy

• Seeing beauty and love everywhere

  
  

The Mystic’s Nervous System

For those who prefer a grounded explanation, here’s how it works: Our Mystic is the original template with which we are born. The right prefrontal cortex is fully active and supported by the safety and connection provided by our ventral vagal nerve. The activation of the dorsal vagal nerve blends with this to create a calm state conducive to meditation and transcendence. This wiring acts as a clear antenna, picking up signals from the unseen world.

However, if there is intergenerational trauma, or if the mother did not feel safe and cared for during pregnancy, we may be born with a nervous system attuned to danger. In such cases, the right prefrontal cortex, out of necessity for survival, fades into the background but remains ever-present, always available to be experienced.

This is the core of our wholeness.

Mapping Meaning: The Itinerary

It is human nature to seek answers to the big questions: Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? In trying to make sense of a seemingly senseless existence, we create stories to answer these existential wonderings. The Mystic holds the key to this connection.

Setting Your Compass

Without reflection, we tend to look outward for comfort and joy rather than inward for meaning and purpose. At some point, many of us realize that external stimulation no longer satisfies a deeper longing. It becomes clear that turning inward may lead to lasting peace and joy.

Have you ever had a moment where you turned your face to the sky, arms raised, asking: "What is this all about?" Or found yourself on your knees, pounding the floor, crying out: "Why am I here?" It is in these moments that we find the motivation to contemplate the Great Mystery.

Slowing down and creating conditions that welcome The Mystic might allow you to contemplate and formulate a story that brings you serenity and hope. Below, you will find stories written by others through the eyes of The Mystic. For those new to this path, it offers an opportunity for reflection, to receive insights from others. For those who have put such reflection on hold, this is a chance to re-engage. And for those who, like me, are fully engaged on this journey, this is a way to continue clarifying beliefs, perspectives, and the infinite possibilities of who we are.

I invite you to rest into a larger story of life, to feel into your own truth on your terms, and possibly reunite with Something Greater. We are all wired to do so.

Have you yourself formulated or found a story that offers you peace and meaning? Perhaps take out your journal and, over several days, jot down some of your foundational beliefs, hopes, or faith about the meaning of it all. Your Mystic has been waiting.

Here is your atlas. Click the arrow on the left of the titles to expand each story.

Remembering Our Wholeness by Judi Blum

~Please note that I use the ancient spelling of Godde as a reminder that Divine is both masculine, feminine, and beyond gender.~

We are cells (souls) in the body of a Loving Source (Godde). In an timeless realm (field of consciousness), this Body is whole, all-knowing, pure love & peace. As a part of Godde, we are a natural extension of Their Divine Love. In eternity, which is absolute (non-dual), everything is in perfection. As an extension of Source Energy, we appreciate the impeccability of that realm, yet are impregnated with desire for emergence. This continuity of creation manifested into form which exhibits duality or contrast. This the natural occasion for the Divine to live more facets of Their Self, those which are not accessible in the formless realm. Ralph Waldo Emerson stated: “Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” In that sense, our humanly, earthly experience is like a playground, and it is not necessary to be attached to outcomes. It is like the Holodeck (Star Trek) where we are privileged to act out a variety of scenarios, but we will not disappear once the program terminates. There is a call to remember who we, along with our brothers & sisters, truly are, in all our uniqueness. Surprisingly, when we forget Wholeness, it is in the remembering again, that we get to participate in the act of Creation by awakening to the continual birthing of our Beingness. The realization of the emergence of the Divine in and around us is an incredible love affair.

This awareness mitigates the sense of danger and threat from our environment, allows us to move from fear to love, from competition to cooperation. Our brain and heart move into coherence and harmony. Consequently, a change in our personal electro-magnetic field occurs and influences the field around the Earth. Coherent consciousness among people creates an upgraded order in the world. This subtle interaction links us with each other and the living Earth for a shift on a more cosmic realm (HeartMath’s Global Coherence Project and Princeton University). We live in a Holofractographic Universe (“an expression of the essential interrelatedness of the holographic and fractal nature of the cosmos: an innately unified whole that is fractally divided into discrete, localized entities that are always connected to each other and the entirety of the whole” ~Nassim Haramein). In other words, all the information in all of creation is present in each of us, down to each proton. This information is replicated on the micro and macro levels throughout the cosmos. “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…” ~ Hermes Trismegistus.

Zooming down to a smaller order on the fractal scale, we see the natural cycle of biological evolution. Our cells represent a maturation of bacteria that moved from an immature, individual, competitive and survival state to a mature, united, cooperative, and thriving state. There is a directionality in evolution toward increasing complexity and consciousness: matter >> bacterium > nucleated cell >> tissues >> organs >> systems >>organisms >>families >> communities etc. Our universe has progressed from the geosphere (matter) to the biosphere (life). We chose to incarnate into the biosphere. Through the evolution of the interaction of the human psyche (psyche means soul in ancient Greek) moving into greater harmony via our electromagnetic field, a new level manifests: the noosphere (thought) emerges and encircles the earth. The more organized human hearts and minds are, the more the noosphere evolves towards unification of its elements and becomes a self-reflective universe. Love is the principal driver towards transformation realized through remembering our wholeness. This climax is the Omega Point (everything in the universe is fated to spiral towards a final point of unification) which could be considered as the ultimate return to Godde (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Lloyd Morgan).

In our holofractographic universe, where each new collective incarnation leads to another Omega Point, we inevitably create novel dimensions of existence. As we collectively remember that we a perfect extension of Godde, the noosphere itself becomes a new cell in the ever-expanding Body.

Like Russian nesting dolls, each time we reach the culmination, we transcend and include (Ken Wilbur) all the facets of Divine we have realized. We reunite into the larger emerging Body, and consequently, have new opportunities in new realms to experience new aspects of Who We Are: unique emerging creations of Consciousness.

To know Eternity: that is wisdom (Lao Tzu) by Veronica Pelicaric

Between the Breath by ajbishop

CIRCLING THE DRAGON PORTAL by Akara

Acceptance, patience, peace and Love by Rick

Once Upon a Time... by Lisa Schermerhorn

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