We all sometimes sense there is something more than what is right in front of us. Maybe when it’s a gorgeous sunset…at a wedding of a loved one…in the mountains staring at a beautiful vista… We might loose our breath for a moment and behold something truly awesome.
Is there anything at all beyond the visible? And if so, what is it? And if it is not visible, how can we know it?
In yoga and in meditation, on occasion, you might sense some current of energy. Some call it the flow. We all know it when we may have dropped into it. It is a marvelous almost effortless feeling–you are doing or experiencing something with ease and almost seeming perfection as though you and everything was one being moved by some magical force, totally in sync or at one with the world around and within you. It’s a joyful awe-inspiring feeling.
Being more and more in this space is the goal of yoga and meditation. Yoga literally means to yoke oneself to or become one with this force. Some call it God; some the miracle of life itself; Star Wars fans call it The Force. Some take drugs or hallucinogens to try to experience this space. (When I first began yoga over 40 years ago, I read The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, and I became convinced that yoga and meditation were “natural” ways to enter this space.) Many of us seek this connection in the marvels and quietude of nature. Much of the arts somehow “captures” this and gives us a glimpse or an experience of it….
Is there really anything beyond or within the visible that we cannot see with the naked eye but can somehow feel or sense or just know? Or might this invisible quality or force actually just be a property or characteristic of the visible?
The Every Day Yogi 