Journey Through The Universe
And as you are relaxing there…just allowing your mind to wander where it will…you might begin to imagine how it would be if you could begin a spectacular journey of discovery…a discovery of self and the whole of everything that you could ever think about…and that journey might begin with you just floating, as if you were on a cloud somewhere, perhaps… just floating idly and observing…in an easy relaxed sort of way…without trying to make sense of anything…just observing lazily as you float higher and higher…becoming more and more relaxed…and after a while, you realise you’re actually floating out past the moon…and you have no idea how you got there…but you realise that this is just a fleeting visit, as you gaze down at the surface, wondering at the fact that men have actually walked there…and you can see the earth like a great blue and white globe, just poised in space…and you find an astonishingly comfortable sensation about you…as you somehow recognise that you are a part of this universe…a part of everything that you can see around you…and as you make that realisation, it’s as if your vision suddenly clears and you can see for thousands upon thousands upon millions of miles…and you realise with a surge of joy that you can look back through time…and forward through time, too, as though time simply did not exist… and then you are swooping low along the canyons of Mars…and it maybe that this is the Mars of aeons ago…or perhaps far into the future…and no sooner do you try to work it out than you find yourself gliding past the giant called Jupiter…with its swirling clouds of gas that have a kind of velvety quality, yet so dense that they keep safe the secret of what is beneath them…and you drift on…playing among the rings of Saturn, rings that seem to be composed of a million tiny jewels, glinting in a magical light that comes from some unseen source…reflecting colours that you have never seen before…and you realise that you are beginning to accelerate now, travelling faster and faster…out past Uranus…then Neptune… and tiny Pluto, the smallest planet in our system…and still you fly faster and faster, and yet somehow seeming to just float…suspended in a delightful weightlessness…for what might have been a million years or more…or perhaps just the blinking of an eye…and there’s a sense of an important journey…a sense of discovery of a truth, of a great truth that has lain hidden until now… anticipation fills your mind and body as you continue on your journey and soon you are flying past Sirius…and you reflect that the ancient Egyptians of Earth knew this star… thousands of years ago.. and then you realise that time here is irrelevant…that a thousand years might just be the tiniest moment or the longest age…and it begins to dawn on you that you are travelling further than man has ever even seen before…beyond the reaches of even the most powerful telescope that has ever been invented…beyond the places that mankind can even imagine, except in his dreams…dreams that might revolve around a great universal truth but which evaporate like a silken mist as wakefulness approaches…and anticipation seems to fill every pore of your entire being…a sense of something special about to happen…or already happening…and it begins to seem to you that you can sense a gentle light coming from somewhere…and even though you can’t yet see it…it’s as if you can feel it…sense it with some part of you that has lain dormant until this moment…as if you are in touch with the entire universe, in touch with everything that man has ever known or ever will know…you can sense it on your skin…in the very depths of your mind…in every cell and every pore of your entire body…and you realise that you are in the presence of… the origin of all things living…of all thought, of all feelings…and for a few moments you bask in the wonderment of recognition…that we are all one…that every living thing…not just on earth, but in the entire cosmos…is all part of one beautiful, wonderful, awe-inspiring force of life…and with this recognition, the light becomes stronger and brighter…stronger and brighter…until it fills every part of you…and you know that where you are, right at this moment, is the origin of all creation, of all things living…all things that have lived…and all things that will ever live…and then, quite suddenly, it’s gone…and you find yourself returning…but with a deep understanding that will allow you to function more effectively, more confidently, than ever before…and as though you have moved through a gateway in time and space, you realise that you are suddenly drifting down towards Earth, with a wonderful feeling of completeness…and you bring this feeling back to the here and now with you…to this room…today…bringing back a knowledge and a confidence that will allow you to achieve your every goal, your every wish…