In all our spiritual traditions as well as in modern astrophysics
there’s the idea that the entire universe sprang into existence from a single
infinitesimal point and that before, there was just this great sea of cosmic void. But
this mysterious void always gets misunderstood. It is actually the source of
consciousness. The word "void" conjures up images of nothingness, emptiness, a
vacuum where nothing we know of could possibly exist. Even the illusions of the
imagination are unable to penetrate this secret repository of life. To walk the spiritual
path you have to enter the emptiness of the creative void. As a creative being made to
love the void is the pure affirmation of wholeness.
Above the whirling sea, stars await your return
mirrored across the deep span stretching within.
The curving space between here and there is endless
yet it feels like you’ve been abandoned in the emptiness.
The void is the circle whose circumference is unlimited and
whose center is nowhere and everywhere. It is the holy silence where all polarities are
dissolved into ultimate unity, where good and evil melt away and zero equals infinity.
From nothing comes unification, the principle of oneness. Just as in mathematics, when you
raise zero to the power of zero, you get one. Jesus stressed that the most important
precept was that God id One, one unified being extending through creation and containing
creation. The pure void is the source of being and the destination of non-being, where
life equals death, alpha equals omega, the beginning is the end. It simply is what it is.
It is aware of itself and life is in it as it dwells in life. From this eternal
perspective it is creative. Therefore we call it creator.
To be unified with the creator we too must be creative. Creativity and
awareness are paths to the realization of the source of consciousness. Every moment it
lives and dies I the depths of your being. It is the source of all illumination and
vision, yet blacker and more hidden and invisible than the darkest night of the soul. To
seek it in an actual location is to lose it. To limit it to concepts of space and time is
not to grasp it. The only thing you can do is realize it pure and simple, the direct
experience of God in your heart. The flashes of Satori insight are simply eternal
being’s awareness of itself in you.
To contemplate the creative void is the highest activity. Yet it is a
useless endeavor if you think you are separate from it. To pray is to commune with
eternity allowing it to penetrate your being. Satori is the sudden rediscovery of the
creative void, the formless form, the imageless image, the soundless sound. It is a
flashing moment when you step into the hub of the wheel of consciousness and see all the
spokes of life converging.
You can never stop the flow of dark imagery
coursing through your heart.
Those chambers of guilt and fear always struggle
to contain the tingling fire spiraling through your soul.
By tuning into the source of life you become fertile and
creative. You begin nurturing your dreams, your visions, spiritual longings, and your
connection to Source. In Dan Millman’s book "Way of the Peaceful Warrior"
Socrates says to him, "Life is not about suffering. It’s just that you’ll
suffer it until you learn to let go of your mind’s attachment to the outcome and just
go for the ride freely, no matter what happens." Imagine if you could live in that
kind of unconditional state of love with the universe, even when it needs to crush you to
teach you a lesson. And you still love it, no matter what happens. You love it even more
and when the dust settles you rise from the ashes experiencing rebirth.
