(by Paul Mulliner)
“Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. All great discoveries are made in this way.” — Albert Einstein
Our mission as human beings is to find and know the hidden, the universal soul.
The presence of the eternal, a timeless universal consciousness, unlimited, boundless and almost inexpressible, somehow touching all our lives, somehow weaving an extraordinary intelligence through life.
Something never seen, but always known inside the conscious silence.
Something always providing us with intuition, an inner poetry, a whisper in the wind that touches every star and every human life.
A poetry of insight helping us know the presence of the Source, generous and providential like sunlight in a summer garden.
Like intelligent and conscious light becoming life, universal consciousness is expressing itself as our living human form and providing us with conscious awareness.
And a new contemporary spirituality is emerging that recognizes universal consciousness as the primary element in the universe not matter.
We’re a spacious universal consciousness appearing as separate human beings.
Tuning in to this universal consciousness, the conscious silence inside us, helps us be more receptive to intuition.
Those sudden and spontaneous inner promptings from the universal that are often precisely appropriate and useful to our current circumstances.
That hunch we might get about whether a particular choice is appropriate, the sudden hint that something we’ve lost is in an unexpected place.
Intuition is the spontaneous and silent voice of the universal consciousness.
A universal consciousness trying to help us navigate our life.
Providing spontaneous insights and sudden inspirations that have helped human beings through the ages find new understanding and create new music and art.
We can’t see this universal field of consciousness and haven’t yet developed the sensitive tools required to make it visible, but we can make visual expressions of our intuitive impressions of this field.
We can reveal it with art.
Visual fields, arrays, webs and networks created with digital art tools can hint at the unseen, underlying connectedness that binds the universe together into one coherent whole.
Something hidden exists in all our lives, and with digital art software we can now make our intuitive realizations of this hidden universal consciousness visible.
“Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see, but somehow already know” — Rick Rubin
With art we can reveal our intuitions of the unseen, the underlying field of universal consciousness.
And for writers, intuitive poetry helps record the inner flow of insights and metaphor emerging from the universal source inside all of us, the eternal, the Tao.
We can see writing poetry as part of a personal journey of self discovery with spontaneous insights and sudden intuitions written down, maybe scribbled into a personal notebook.
We can allow our personal creativity to occupy a large and important space at the heart of our life.
Every day we can find time to pause, go deeper, and find the inner center of ourselves.
Know an inner connection to the conscious universe.
Realize the importance of a life centered around our own inner journey.
A life that has plenty of time and space for silence and inner healing.
A life with a conscious inner center.
Rather than creating consciousness, our human brain can be thought of as an antenna tuning in to universal consciousness.
A universal consciousness we can become more aligned to, in sync with, when we focus our attention inwardly, into the deep inner core of ourselves.
A universal consciousness the Native American Lakota and Algonquin referred to as the Great Mystery or Great Spirit and many other traditions through the centuries have created their own names and descriptions.
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home” — Australian Aboriginal Proverb
We’re living in a time when insights from the ancient intuitive wisdom traditions Taoism, Buddhism and the Hindu Vedanta, among others, are being joined with insights from the front edge of science to create a new synthesis, a new worldview fit for the 21st century.
The new worldview isn’t a completely new way of seeing, but rather an evolution of pre-modern wisdom traditions that accepts and values the many new insights now emerging from science.
For nearly a century, researchers in physics have known all the ‘material stuff’ in our universe to be clusters of tiny wave patterns in a field of nonlocal cosmic energy.
In more recent decades they’ve discovered the exquisite interwoven orchestration of cell biochemistry, revealing the presence of an extraordinary intelligence throughout the universe.
Our inspirations and insights emerge from an inexpressible source inside all of us, the universal consciousness.
A universal consciousness trying to help us navigate our life.
“The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes all things and brings them to fulfilment” — Tao Te Ching 41
“That which cannot be seen is called invisible.
That which cannot be heard is called inaudible.
That which cannot be held is called intangible.By intuition you can see it, hear it, and feel it.
Then the unseen, unheard and untouched
are present as one.”— from the Tao Te Ching 14th verse
translation/ interpretation by Wayne Dyer
We’re the living expressions of a universal consciousness that’s transforming itself into the precisely orchestrated biochemistry of our bodies, allowing us to live life as a human being.
A universal consciousness that has an extraordinary intelligence, not only orchestrating the astonishing complexity of the biochemistry of our body, but also bringing us intuition.
When we’re born, the conscious universe becomes a human being.
And every day we can find time to pause, pay attention to the silence inside us, and realize an inner connection to the conscious universe.
We can let our thinking dissolve away, and become aware of the silence of universal consciousness inside us.
We can focus our attention in this conscious silence and become more tuned in to the universal consciousness.
And we can more clearly sense the helpful intuitive insights and inspirations it’s always creating inside us.
Paul Mulliner 2024
From: https://thetaoist.online/the-path-of-silence-45437eba7024
Cover image: Mandala Art by the Author 2019