Mystical mystery

"The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else."

Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Over the years my interest have varied greatly-especially when it comes to the mysteries of life, and of existence-though I consider myself more of a renegade Catholic incorporating many eastern religious ideas into my belief system, but I am a Catholic non the less having many serious disagreement with the Vatican`s  dogma.

I could list here a few dozen interesting figures in history from the religious to the strangest , who have delved into the magical, ethereal and the mystical that have tickled my deep interest through the years. Each time I had an encounter with one of these figures through their writings, and more often than not, I embraced part of their philosophical, theological, mystical insights, experiences which at the time made absolute sense.

These thoughts came to me this morning as I was reading some of  Dion Fortune`s writings. To be honest, one can go absolutely insane regarding all the ideas and thoughts that are out there but all are uniquely individual in their numerous writings-all vastly different and enormously fascinating. Not that I am saying that there is no truth in most of these writings of these enlightened souls, but it is for each of us to determine what “our truth “ is. Today-in minutes from the internet we can access information, that only a hundred or less years ago took a lifetime to find. But-at times too much information is not always a good thing .

Looking back now-perhaps because one becomes more reliant on self observation , imagination or encounters with age, as opposed to look for answers outside. I have come to the realization that in reality no one knows more than an other human being. One may accumulate more knowledge from their writings from  books, but those are still written by humans arising from their own experiences, ideas and interactions with existence.

Now- my musing here is more in the esoteric and mystical field as opposed to the different sciences that one learns throughout life that becomes necessary for us to be acquainted with the world and its advancement. These days I am less inclined to dive into something new that intrigues me, I try and keep things more serene and simple in my life-perhaps trying to be more organized and hitching my wagon to one star-rather than many. 

I think I came to this conclusion because I have come to the realization that there is no absolute truth, for that we shall never know; we just know our own and be that complicated, outlandish or the least simple it is just as important as the ones that come from the greatest of minds. Our reality is created by us-and we determine that through free will; what is real to one is absurd to an other, our experience is the determinant or base of our belief whatever that maybe.
All is mystical, and all is a mystery.