What we regard, in the west, as Mystical is seeming to me to be less and less Mystical.
What we regard as Mystical is actually simply reconnecting with Nature. It is actually quite banal from a more, shall I say, “authentic” perspective. What we regard as Mystical is actually mystical.
The real Mystical experience of Life (not this western life, society, et al) is actually found seeping through the gaps of a fabric of banality which we call “everyday life”. It seeps through the fabrics and western society insists that you let it leak out, disregard it, don’t pay attention to it, it doesn’t matter, get back to work, worry, stress, think, reason. . . .
I believe the real Mystics of the world (they’re all the same at their core with different material conditions around them) are connected with Nature, connected with Light. That’s why they appear to be transcendent to western eyes. Our society is so removed from Nature it isn’t Human. Our humans are more like zombies.
This is not a judgement. I am part zombie too. i do believe i am only part zombie, but that could be ego or error. i feel confident it is not as i sit here in the sunlight with hummingbirds circling my head with their amazing vibrational sound which is light permeating my being. a rhythm so natural and yet so supernatural in its experience i can only desire to acquire my own natural sound that could be half as graceful and gorgeous as these 2 hummingbirds of 2 distinct sizes with 2 distinct sounds and speeds. The flies i dont enjoy as much but i do dutifully respect their emergence and existence but no i dont enjoy the sound but maybe i could learn to? i dont like when they bite me, especially when im playing guitar trying to craft my own sound. should i be trying?
As I visualized this “banal fabric” that real Mystical Experience is “seeping through” it immediately reminded me to why I am working the way i am. Burlap or jute is this “banal fabric” to most of the world and my house paints are “seeping through” onto other fabrics and affecting the burlap in a unique, unpredictable way. The result, to me, can conjure a Mystical experience, especially in conjunction with 1-3 hours of direct exposure to the sun’s rays with as little clothing as possible none preferably and maybe some kind of sound, any sound, present, regarded as sound only sound something natural something beautiful something vibrating. Sound is light. My work could potentially trigger a “seeping” experience if light can contain the leaks, if light can align the attention, if light can reconnect reboot root.
