The Answer Is Yes And No. Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore
The Answer Is Yes And No.
Does a mystical experience
admit of any doubt?
The answer is yes and no.
Where logic and rationality are foremost,
in the conceptual level,
it may admit of doubt.
Mystical experience is so unrelated
to reason as to seem perhaps irrational.
But in the level of immediate intuition,
in which an experience impresses itself
upon us directly without ambiguity,
the level on which we experience
reality as we experience our own being,
it admits of no doubt.
Thecreation of conditions
conducive to the ultimate
is also a gift of the Almighty.
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5/20/2024 6:13:29 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Amen, Tony—It is gift and gift and more gift. And as you say, in the moments when God is most clearly and intensely experienced, we KNOW. These high-point moments do carry over into ordinary life, but the psalmists illustrate how even with that knowing in our experience, we still struggle, still wonder if God sees and cares, but still with the conviction that God is our audience. Hoping, brother, you are well, Glen