art Parablev
..."There's a sudden vision. Satori! Breaking! Wowee! And the doors of
the mind are blown apart, and there sits the ordinary old man. It's just
little you, you know? Lightning flashes, sparks shower. In one blink of
your eyes, you've missed seeing. Why? Because here is the light. The
light, the light, the light, every mystic in the world has 'seen the
light.' That brilliant, blazing energy, brighter than a thousand suns,
it is locked up in everything. Now imagine this, imagine
you're seeing it. Like you see aureoles around buddhas. Like you see
the beatific vision at the end of Dante's 'Paradiso.' Vivid, vivid
light, so bright that it is like the clear light of the void in the
Tibetan Book of the Dead. It's beyond light, it's so bright. And you
watch it receding from you. And on the edges, like a great star, there
becomes a rim of red. And beyond that, a rim of orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo, violet. You see this great mandala appearing, this great
sun, and beyond the violet, there's black. Black, like obsidian, not
flat black, but transparent black, like lacquer. And again, blazing out
of the black, as the yang comes from the yin, more light. Going, going,
going. And along with this light, there comes sound. There is a sound so
tremendous with the white light that you can't hear it, so piercing
that it seems to annihilate the ears. But then along with the colors,
the sound goes down the scale in harmonic intervals, down, down, down,
down, until it gets to a deep thundering base which is so vibrant that
it turns into something solid, and you begin to get the similar spectrum
of textures. Now all this time, you've been watching a kind of thing
radiating out. 'But,' it says, 'you know, this isn't all I can do,' and
the rays start dancing like this, and the sound starts waving, too, as
it comes out, and the textures start varying themselves, and they say,
well, you've been looking at this this as I've been describing it so far
in a flat dimension. Let's add a third dimension; it's going to come
right at you now. And meanwhile, it says, we're not going to just do
like this, we're going to do little curlicues. And it says, 'well,
that's just the beginning!' Making squares and turns, and then suddenly
you see in all the little details that become so intense, that all kinds
of little subfigures are contained in what you originally thought were
the main figures, and the sound starts going all different, amazing
complexities of sound all over the place, and this thing's going, going,
going, and you think you're going to go out of your mind, when suddenly
it turns into... Why, us, sitting around here."
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