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　　 Because here is the light. The light, the light, the light, every mystic in the world has "seen the light." That brilliant, blazing energy, brighter than a thousand suns, it is locked up in everything. Now imagine this. Imagine you”re seeing it. Like you see aureoles around buddhas. Like you see the beatific vision at the end of Dante”s "Paradiso." Vivid, vivid light, so bright that it is like the clear light of the void in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It”s beyond light, it”s so bright. And you watch it receeding from you. And on the edges, like a great star, there becomes a rim of red. And beyond that, a rim of orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. You see this great mandela appearing with great suns, and beyond the violet, there”s black. Black, like obsidian, not flat black, but transparent black, like lacquer. And again, blazing out of the black, as the _yang_ comes from the _yin_, more light. Going, going, going. And along with this light, there comes sound. There is a sound so tremendous with the white light that you can”t hear it, so piercing that it seems to annihilate the ears. But then along with the colors, the sound goes down the scale in harmonic intervals, down, down, down, until it gets to a deep thundering base which is so vibrant that it turn it turns into something solid, and you begin to get the similar spectrum of textures. Now all this time, you”ve been watching a kind of thing radiating out. "But," it says, "you know, this isn”t all I can do," and the rays start dancing like this, and the sound starts waving, too, as it comes out, and the textures start varying themselves, and they say, well, you”ve been looking at this this as I”ve been describing it so far in a flat dimension. Let”s add a third dimension; it”s going to come right at you now. And meanwhile, it says, we”re not going to just do like this, we”re going to do little curlicues. And it says, "well, that”s just the beginning!" Making squares and turns, and then suddenly you see in all the little details that become so intense, that all sorts of subfigures are contained in what you originally thought were the main figures, and the sound starts going all different, amazing complexities if sound all over the place, and this thing”s going, going, going, and you think you”re going to go out of your mind, when suddenly it turns into... Why, us, sitting around here.

　　Thank you very much.

　　Scribbled down by

　　Alan Seaver: seaverw@columbia.dsu.edu

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