April 15-A, 2023

The three experiencess
traditionally,
historically,
classically,
universally 
recognized
as being "transparent to transcendence"
are
art,
music
and nature.

Transparency to transcendence
simply means that these experiences
are easily flipped,
like an optical illusion
might be flipped,
and serve as a doorway,
a threshold,
a portkey,
flipping us
from this world 
of normal, apparent, physical reality
to the world of invisible,
though always present,
always "right here,"
"right nowi,"
spiritual reality,
and exposing us to the wow,
of amazement,
wonder,
radiance,
bliss
of "the farther shore"
being here/now,
and then, of course,
it's gone again "like that,"
when we begin thinking about
our experience
rather than simply experiencing 
our experience
with a smile
and letting it be.

The vehicle of transportation
can be anything,
but it is not everything.

The odor of cookies baking in the oven
can do it.
The happy gurgling of a baby can do it.
It is everywhere at all times.

It is all "transparent to transcendence"
for eyes that see,
ears that hear,
hearts that understand.

But.

We no sooner experience it than we,
(Get this now,
the utter stupidity/ignorance of it),
begin to wonder how to profit from it,
how to package it,
how to sell it,
how to make it make money for us.

Money pays the bills
but it is no foundation for life,
running over,
pouring out.

And we sell our souls
for thirty pieces of silver
again and again.

Just "be still and know"
transcendent reality
on the other side of everything
for eyes that see,
ears that hear,
hearts that understand.

And find all that you need in that
to step into each day
and do there what needs to be done there
as companions of the Holy
within us all
and spread throughout the world,
reminding us of who we are
and where we belong,
being "transparent to transcendence"
ourselves.

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