I want you all to stonewall it; let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up or anything else, if it will save it—save the plan. To support him they will have to affirm the divine right of kings. In grammar, sentences are built up basically from three things: a subject, a verb, and an object, with the subject acting upon the object through the verb. A sentence is not considered complete unless it has these three things, this relationship between the subject and the object. In metaphysics, every experience also requires a subject and an object—a person or a thing who is affected by or produces an action on a second entity. All statements about human experiences must include this subject-object relationship. Thus, in the relationship between a human and one’s thoughts, the human is the subject and the thoughts are the objects. In Old World metaphysics, a similar relationship holds good—except that the subject is there called the seer, the object is called the seen, and seeing describes the relationship between the two. All existence in time-space order as experienced by a human being necessarily has these three elements within it. There is no subject without an object, no seer without a seen plus the relationship or the action between them. They are always linked together. If however we look beyond this existence to the timeless spaceless Reality, it is obvious that there can be no such relationship therein, for it is completely nondual, the Reality which never changes, which has no second thing. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

We learn from mentalism that this Reality is Mind. If we are ever to find it, we know that it cannot be found as if it were a second thing, with us as subject and it as object. In that sense we can never find it, but only substitutes which themselves are in duality. We have indeed to set up a search for the kind of consciousness where there is no object to be experienced and therefore where there is no subject-ego to receive the experience. Such is the unified consciousness which is none other than Mind itself. We can use this criterion not only with reference to our experiences of the World but also with reference to our inner mystical experiences and check from this on what level they really are. Mind also has no second thing to know an experience, no World. Nor can anyone know and experience Mind and yet remain an individual, a person. Whoever finds one’s Overself and draws from it the will and desire to serve others, will radiate joy, confidence, and peace to them. From that high source of inspiration may come great actions, immense inner strength, superb artistic creativity, and a beautiful, delicate inner equilibrium. What inspired artist ever creates a new work expect in joy? Is this not a clue to the fact that the inspirational or best level of one’s mind is a happy one? One lives in the sunny light of one’s own inspired thoughts. When thought of the little self vanished, even gloating thought of its spiritual rapture, and That which is behind or beyond it in utter stillness is alone felt and known, then one is said to experience “the touch of the Untouchable,” as ancient self-actualized called it. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

The literal meaning is “non-touching” or, possibly “touching the Untouchable.” Everything is either related to, or in contact with, something else, that is, in touch with it. However, in the states of Asparsa there is no such possibility because nondual Brahman is alone acknowledged, THAT which is uncontacted by anything. If you believe that you have had the ultimate experience, it is more likely that you had an emotional, or mental, or mystic one. The authentic thing does not enter consciousness. You do not know that it has transpired. You discover it is already here only by looking back at what you were and contrasting it with what you now are; or what others recognize it in you and draw attention to it; or when a situation arises which throws up your real status. It is a permanent fact, not a brief mystic “glimpse.” The true union, completely authentic and completely beatific, where mind melts into Mind without the admixture of personal wish or traditional suggestion, cannot be properly described in words. For one who experiences it may know its onset or its end because of the enormous contrast with one’s ordinary self, but one will not know its full height simply because one will not even know that one is experiencing it. For to do so would be to re-introduce the ego and thus fall away from the purity of the union. There would then be admixture—which is the fate of unions. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

All teachings which try to inform us what the Real is like can only honestly do so if they use negative terms: they can only say what it is not like. For where is the individual who can continue to exist in its discovery and note its nature or attributes? One’s limited consciousness has dissolved in the larger one. Only afterwards, when looking back at the experience, dare one say that the experience itself was ineffable but what it concerned was incomprehensible; it was luminous, but that which shone was an unseen power. “What other hath He appointed over the earth? or whom hath He set over the World which He Himself hath made,” reports Job 34.13. Two things belong to providence—namely, the type of things foreordained towards an end; and the execution of this order, which is called government. As regards the first of these, God has immediate providence over everything, because He has in His intellect the types of everything, even the smallest; and whatsoever He causes assigns to certain effects, He gives them the power to produce those effects. Whence it must be that God has before hand the type of those effects in His mind. As t the second, there are certain intermediaries of God’s providence; for He governs things inferior by superior, not on account of any defect in His power, but by reason of the abundance of His goodness; so that the dignity of causality is imparted even to creatures. Thus Plato’s opinion, as narrated by Gregory of Nyssa (De Provid. Vii, 3) is exploded. He taught threefold providence. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

First, one which belongs to the supreme Deity, Who first and foremost has provision over spiritual things, and thus over the individuals of all that can be generated and corrupted, he attributed to the divinities who circulate in the Heavens; that is, certain separate substances, which move corporeal things in a circular direction. The third providence, over human affairs, he assigned to demons, who the Platonic philosopher placed between us and the gods, as Augustine tells us (De Civ. Dei, 1, 2: viii, 14). It pertains to a king’s dignity to have minster who execute his providence. However, the fact that one has not the plan of those things which are done by them arises from a deficiency in oneself. For every operative science is the more perfect, the more it considers the particular thing with which its action is concerned. God’s immediate provision over everything does not exclude the action of secondary causes; which are the executors of His order, as was said above. It is better for us not to know low and vile things, because by them we are impeded in our knowledge of what is better and higher; for we cannot understand many things simultaneously; because the thought of evil sometimes perverts the will towards evil. This does not hold with God, Who sees everything simultaneously at one glance, and whose will cannot turn in the direction of evil. When you speak of “an experience” you imply that first, there is an experiencer, and second, there is an object of which one has an experience. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

That is, you refer to the realm of duality. It may be lofty, inspiring, unusual, but it is an event with a beginning and an ending; it is inside time, however variously the sense of time changes. It is not to be identified with the Real. The ordinary person is quite incapable of penetrating the absolute. The extraordinary person—the genius—may get flashes of intuition which reflect some of truths that lift one above the little self. However, no one really attains the absoluteness without getting dissolved in it, without knowing and remembering nothing of it. Those who claim these “unions with God’ are really describing something quite different. Too often they are overwhelmed by their experience and quite naturally take it to be outside reality when it is in fact a higher degree of it. The question of “I” and of self-consciousness in any form, whether universal or personal, vanished when the truth is known because there is none then to mark out selfhood of any kind. When it is understood that the mind cannot become an object to itself, it will be understood that everything one may say about it will merely impose an illusory limitation upon it. There are not two thoughts, the ego and the universal self, to enter into relationship in the final stage. The ocean of infinite impersonal being closes over the human’s ego, and one is forever submerged in anonymity, never again to see or be seen. The final grade of inner experience, the deepest phase of contemplation, is one where the experience oneself disappears, the meditator vanishes, the knower no longer has an object—not even the Overself—to know for duality collapses. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

Because this grade is beyond the supreme “Light” experience where the Overself reveals its presence visually as a dazzling mass, shaft, ball, or ray of unearthly radiance which is seen whether the bodily eyes are open or closed, it has been called the divine darkness. One can find nothingness within oneself only after one has evaluated the nothingness of oneself. They mystery of the Great Void does not disclose itself to the smugly satisfied or the arrogantly proud or the intellectually conceited. The truth becomes self-evident on this highest level and needs no endorsement from anything or anyone outside. It puts the searching intellect and the aspiring emotions back in their place as mere channels for its use. Here is the most private experience anyone can have—to be alone with the Alone! To return to the Source is to hold on until you immerse yourself in the threefold being of Time, Space, and Mind which together make the One, the Source of God. What the Self-Actualized Plotinus called the First Principle, the One, is as high as enlightenment can bring the seeker. In this astonishing revelation, one discovers that one oneself is the seeker, the teacher, and the sought-for goal. Without keeping steadily in view this original mentalness of things and hence their original oneness with self and Mind, the mystic must naturally get confused if not deceived by what one takes to be the opposite of Spirit and Mater. The mystic looks within, to self; the materialist looks without to the World. And each misses what the other finds. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

However to the philosopher neither of these is primary. One looks to that Mind of which both self and World are but manifestations and in which one find the manifestations also. It is not enough for one to receive, as the mystic receives, fitful and occasional illuminations from periodic intersessionary prayers. One relates this intellectual understanding to one’s further discovery got during mystical self-absorption in the Void that the reality of one’s own self is Mind. Back in the World once more one studies it again under this further light, confirms that the manifold World consists ultimately of mental images, conjoins with one’s full metaphysical understanding that it is simply Mind in manifestation, and thus comes to comprehend that it is essentially one with the same Mind which one experiences in self-absorption. Thus one’s insight actualizes, experiences, this Mind-in-itself as and not apart from the sensuous World whereas the mystic divides them. With insight, the sense of oneness does not destroy the sense of difference but both remain strangely present, whereas with the ordinary mystical perception each cancels the other. The myriad forms which make up the picture of this World will not disappear as an essential characteristic of reality nor will one’s awareness of them or one’s traffic with them be affected. Hence one possesses a firm and final attainment wherein one will permanently possess the insight into pure Mind even in the midst of physical sensations. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

One sees everything in this multitudinous World as being but the Mind itself as easily as one can see nothing, the imagesless Void, as being but the Mind itself, whenever one cares to turn aside into self-absorption. One sees both the outer faces of all humans and the inner depth of one’s own self as being but the Mind itself. Thus one experiences the unity of all existence; not intermittently but at every moment ne knows the Mind as ultimate. This is the philosophic or final realization. It is as permanent as the mystic’s is transient. Whatever one does or refrains from dong, whatever one experiences or fails to experience, one gives up all discriminations between reality and appearance, between truth and illusion, and lets one’s insight function freely as one’s thoughts select and cling to nothing. One experiences the miracle of undifferentiated being, the wonder of undifferenced unity. The artificial human-made frontiers melt away. One sees one’s fellow humans as inescapably and inherently divine as they are, not merely as the mundane creatures they believe they are, so that any traces of an ascetical holier-than-thou attitude fall completely away from one. Only after one has worked one’s way through different degrees of comprehension of the World whose passing one’s own development requires, and even after one has penetrated the mystery beyond it, does one come to the unexpected insight and attitude which frees one from both. In other words one is neither in the Void, the One, or the Many yet nor is one not in them. Truth thus becomes a triple paradox! #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

In the highest level there are utterly unalterable truths. They are not got by logic, worked out by intellect, or discovered by observation. They are announced. No one can know their mysterious source in the sense that we know anything else. It is unique, indescribable, and hence unnameable, unimaginable, and beyond all the forms of worship given to all other gods—nowhere to be found in place or time, history or commentary. It is more honest to let the Mystery of Mysteries remain as it is than to repeat ancient portrayals or create new ones—all the labour of the human ego’s trivial or even misleading ideation. Within that silent seeming void, which is as near as most are likely to come, they may be pacified, content, perhaps even dissolved during those utterly surrendered lapses. The application of statistical laws to processes of atomic magnitude in physics has a noteworthy correspondence in psychology, so far as psychology investigates the bases of consciousness by pursuing the conscious processes until they lose themselves in darkness and unintelligibility, and nothing more can be seen but effects which have an organizing influence on the contents of consciousness. Investigation of these facts yields the singular fact that they proceed from an unconscious, id est, objective, reality which behaves at the same time like a subjective one—in other words, like a consciousness. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

Hence the reality underlying the unconscious effect includes the observing subject and is therefore constituted in a way that we cannot conceive. It is, at one and the same time, absolute subjectivity and universal truth, for in principle it an be shown to be present everywhere, which certainly cannot be said of conscious contents of a personalistic nature. The elusiveness, capriciousness, haziness, and uniqueness that lay mind always associates with the idea of the psyche applies only to consciousness, and not to the absolute unconscious. The qualitatively rather than quantitatively definable units with which the unconscious works, namely the archetypes, therefore have a nature that cannot with certainty be designated as psychic. Although I have been led by purely psychological considerations to doubt the exclusively psychic nature of the archetypes, psychology sees itself obliged to revise its “only psychic” assumptions in the light of the physical findings too. Psychics has demonstrated, as plainly as could be wished, that in the realm of atomic magnitudes an observer is postulated in objective reality, and that only on this condition is a satisfactory scheme of explanation possible. This means that a subjective element attaches to the physicist’s World picture, and secondly that a connection necessarily exists between the psyche to be explained and the objective space-tie continuum. Since the physical continuum is inconceivable it follows that we can form no picture of its psychic aspect either, which also necessarily exists. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

Nevertheless, the relative or partial identity of psyche and physical continuum is of the greatest importance theoretically, because it brings with it a tremendous simplification by bridging over the seeming incommensurability between the physical World and the psychic, not of course in any concrete way, but from the psychological side by means of empirically derived postulates—archetypes—whose content, if any, cannot be represented to the mind. Archetypes, so far as we can observe and experience them at all, manifest themselves only through their ability to organize images and ideas, and this is always an unconscious process which cannot be detected until afterwards. By assimilating ideational material whose provenance in the phenomenal World is not to be contested, they become visible and psychic. Therefore they are recognized at first only as psychic entities and are conceived as such, with the same right with which we based the physical phenomena of immediate perception on Euclidean space. Only when it comes to explaining psychic pehnomena of a minimal degree of clarity are we driven to assume that archetypes must have a nonpsychic aspect. Grounds for such a conclusion are supplied by the pehnomena of synchronicity, which are associated with the activity of unconscious operators and have hitherto been regarded, or repudiated, as “telepathy,” et cetera. Scepticism should, however, be levelled only at incorrect theories and not at facts which exist in their own right. No unbiased observer can deny them. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

Resistance to the recognition of such facts rests principally on the repugnance people feel for an allegedly supernatural faculty tacked on to the psyche, like “clairvoyance.” The very diverse and confusing aspect of these phenomena are, so far as I can see at present, complete explicable on the assumption of a psychically relative space-time continuum. As soon as a psychic content crosses the threshold of consciousness, the synchronistic marginal phenomena disappear, time and space rescue their accustomed sway, and consciousness is once more isolated in its subjectivity. We have here one of those instances which can best be understood in terms of the physicist’s idea of “complementarity.” When an unconscious content passes over into consciousness its synchronistic manifestation ceases; conversely, synchronistic phenomena can be evoked by putting the subject into an unconscious state (trance). The same relationship of complementarity can be observed just as easily in all those extremely common medical cases in which certain clinical symptoms disappear when the corresponding unconscious content are made conscious. We also know that a number of psychosomatic phenomena which are otherwise outside the control of the will can be induced by hypnosis, that is, by this same restriction of consciousness. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

It rests with the free choice of the experimenter (or observer) to decide…which insights one will gain and which one will lose; or, to put it in popular language, whether one will measure A and ruin B or ruin A and measure B. It does not rest with one, however, to gain only insights and not lose any. This is particularly true of the relation between the physical standpoint and the psychological. Physics determine quantities and their relation to one another; psychology determines quantities and their relation to one another; psychology determines qualities without being able to measure quantities. Despite that, both sciences arrive at ideas which come significantly close to one another. The parallelism of psychological and physical explanations has already been pointed out. Moderne Physik—Moderne Psychologie explaines that both sciences have, in the course of many years of independent work, amassed observations and systems of thought to match them. Both sciences have come up against certain barriers which display similar basic characteristics. The object to be investigated, and the human investigator with one’s organs of sense and knowledge and their extensions (measuring instruments and procedures), are indissolubly bound together. That is complementarity in physics as well as in psychology. Between physics and psychology there is in fact a genuine and authentic relationship of complementarity. Even the best of humans are subject to the peculiarities of their temperament, to the form of their individuality; and even if they always seek to stay upon the level of inspiration they cannot help expressing the channel through which the inspiration has to come, which is human channel subject to human limitations. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

The inspiration may be pure Spirit but, because it must come into a particular human, one receives it in a particular way, interprets, expresses, and communicates it in a personal way, so that the purity is at best a little adulterated, the integrity a little lost. One’s character may be as selfless as one can make it, but the colouring of one’s mind can only fade out to a piacular extent because one’s body is still there, one’s entire past history is there graven in the subconscious, and body is interfused with mind. All this will vanish with death, or some while after death if one is not fully advanced. Regardless of the fears and dreads, the hesitances and timidities of the lower ego, one must carry out whatever one’s newly found commander bids one do. However, this will not be so hard and unpleasant a task as it might seem to others. For one will now feel at least the same satisfaction in yielding to the higher self’s bidding that one formerly felt in yielding to the lower one’s desires. And with the bidding will come the needed strength, courage, and wisdom to obey it. The World’s opposition and danger may be recognized but will not deter one. It is not by one’s own will that one engages oneself in such work, but by a will that supports and guides one better than ever one could support or guide oneself. This one clearly comprehends and gladly accepts. It is a mistake to believe that to find the Overself is to find eternal monotony and boredom. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

On the contrary, it holds out the promise of life more abundant—of joy, happiness, and satisfaction physically as well as spiritually. All great poetic utterance is discovery. Its moments are angels’ visits. These experiences leave memory-traces—neural processes organized in structures which reflect the experience. Concepts form when similar patterns of experiences repeatedly leave similar structure of memory-traces. One will be an inspired human in one’s labours of spiritual service or artistic expression. One will be aware that a power greater than one’s own is working through one and affecting others. And ne will know that this power comes from the secret God within oneself. So immense is the security which the Overself enfolds one with that ne will not hesitate to take chances which prudence, caution, discretion, or fear would never take. However, one will do so only if the Overself guides one to. One who commands one’s thoughts and senses from one’s divine center commands life. A time some when these records of the past, built up from experiences, themselves affect new experiences, creatine expectations, directing attention, and so on. There is an interplay between more central processes and the sensory life: the very development of a True Self depends on whether the individual’s needs were met when one experienced them or at more arbitrary times. The Overself makes the being comfortable, and arranges a setting in which spiritual nourishment may happen, is all goes well. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

When the Overself is feeding the being, one is free and one’s soul can be felt, it is a warm and pleasant feeling. They are many reasons God provides humans with the things they want and ask for. No doubt the individual’s sensations in respects to God are very acute, and if they are acute we can be sure they are important. The individual first of all needs all these rather quiet experiences in prayer, and needs to feel held lovingly, that is, in an alive way, yet without fuss and anxiety and tenseness. This is the setting. Sooner or later there will be some kind of contact between the soul and God. It does not matter exactly what happens. God is there in the situation and part of it, and He particularly likes the intimacy of the relationship. He comes without preconceived notions as to how the human ought to behave. That is why even people who commit bad acts are blessed with the grace of God, He truly loves all His children. This grace of God gives the human ideas! “Perhaps there is something there outside in the World worth being righteous for.” Spiritual communion begins to flow; in fact, so many blessings are poured out that the individual is encouraged to obey God’s laws, and for a time hardly needs any other external joy. Gradually, God enables the human to build up in the imagination the very thing He has to offer, and the human begins to yield to His will and to get to the root of humanity. These sensory experiences, when repeated in the right emotional atmosphere, eventually build up expectations: phantasies. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

One then goes on to imagine how the fortunate spiritual experiences lead to desired sensory experiences, how one’s wish for salvation seems to bring it about: the human wants something, discovers the power of God, and discovers that God’s love is what one wants. Gradually an individual is enabled to build up the armour of God. Do you see how important this is? The wonder and joy of finding oneself to be a channel of blessing, teaching, healing, peace, and uplift to others will increase as the results themselves increase. The inspiration may be made manifest in a production, so that others may have the chance to feel its reflection; but there can be no guarantee that they will do so. It is true that inspiration comes at unpredictable times. However, if we prepare conditions advantageous to it, we are more likely to receive its visitation. In ancient recorded sayings of Jesus, we may trace one part of the history of human’s search after truth. However, there is another part, a joyous and happier part. The early experiences of people whose lives are governed by their instinctual drives and the early experiences of those whose lives are governed by their relationships with others form a personal possession lent for a moment to a person who knows what to do with it. At first the individual’s experience is concerned, the individual and God are merged into one another: God is a sensory experience of the human’s. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

However, someone not merged with the individual has to make actual what the individual is ready to find. There then follows a time of to-and-from while God is repudiated, reaccepted, and finally perceived as less under the person’s control than the person has assumed. It may seem paradoxical at first glance that, for the best development of a person’s autonomy and self-respect, there has to be this period of utter dependence. However, one will learn and have some actual experience of magical control, of omnipotence, of almightiness and creation. For what the person thinks of, there it is, and it is good. For example, a previously unhappy and disturbed little boy was asked what had helped him, he replied, “Reading about Job, and how he was stripped of everything, but kept his faith in God and had things even better restored to him.” The forces of heredity and the dominion of environment would appear to be the overwhelming impulsions of a human’s actions. However, let the Soul arise in its masterful urgency, and they vanish! Inspiration brings the mind to its most exalted pitch, whether it be a mystic’s mind or an artist’s. Such is the power of true inspiration that it lifts humans to the plane of hero in action, genius in art, or master in renunciation. This is the power that coaxes the unwilling personality to enter the fires of expiation; this is the urge that makes a human swim through bitter waters to find wisdom. The truth is that the source of human’s inspiration is always there, but one’s awareness of it is intermittent. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

Most of us cannot turn on the tap of inspiration at will, cannot put Pegasus between the shafts. Often we deceive ourselves and imagine the presence of inspiration when it is really absent. The works we do then are our humble own, not fiery gifts from Heaven. Dear Lord in the shining Heaven, please speak to me as you follow the wind. Please follow perfectly the waves of their air-ocean, making known to me their invisible pattern. Out of the well of the World they flow, carrying the wisdom of her gift. Please carry it to me also, please give to me, God Almighty, the knowledge that you have, the knowledge I seek. We thankfully acknowledge Thee, O Lord our God, our fathers’ God to all eternity. Our Rock art Thou, our Shield that saves through every generation. We give Thee thanks and we declare Thy praise for all Thy tender care. Our live we trust into Thy loving hand. Our souls are daily with us, evening, morn, and noon. O Though who art all-good, whose mercies never fails us, Compassionate One, whose lovingkindness never cease, we ever hope in Thee. We thankfully acknowledge that Thou art the Lord our God and God of our fathers, the God of all that lives, our Creator and Creator of the Universe. We offer blessings and thanksgiving to Thy great and holy name because Thou hast kept us in life and sustained us; so mayest Thou continue to keep us in life and sustain us. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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