Thought is the opposite of true meditation and in our world it hardly ever stops. We need a new religion, a new philosophy and therefore, a new awareness of the world, fit for this twenty first century. A century where each one of us may begin to intuit and feel the world as a whole, so that our lives have meaning.

Now faith, unlike belief, is always open to new visions of the world. One might say 'empty '. Belief however cannot be faith for belief is a closed mind full of preconception. The draw-bridge is up, so to speak, guarding its particular contents back to its first principles of misinterpretation. True faith is more like being in love with that which infinitely transcends finite vision. That which always 'is' which remains untouched by our thoughts.

To be at the foot of mystery without preconception is the only true, spiritual position. It is the finite before the infinite, the small before the vast and great. We may then be touched by the infinite, or the divine in such a way as to be fed, with increased ascending consciousness. Always on guard against our innate tendency to interpret and misinterpret. J.D. Krishnamurti reminds us that 'when the small projects upon the great it can only come up with a small answer'. Man has done this repeatedly, down through theages, thus we have mind-sets, closed and locked up in their own particular keeps. For such people there is no other way of looking at the world and their religions have proved to be in the past, quarrelsome and divisive. Today is no exception, as with the culture gaps they give rise to which are downright dangerous.

What ' is ' as opposed to that which ' is not ' does not need knowledge of itself in us, for we are what it is doing. Doing to itself. In as much as we become aware of this and are prepared to ' be ' before its mystery without thought, then we would be more attuned to the causal spirit within us which is that mystery. Getting closer to a new and holistic religion or spiritual condition for our future world. May our thought and reason be for a world within that awareness! Doubt everything born of thought, beware of tradition for it is what the human mind has wrought and just look at the state of the world. Doubt all except doubt itself, because ultimately, the universe is ' something ' and the cause of that universe appears from ' nothing ' . Nothing being simply the face of that which transcends finite, human vision. We may intuit realms of consciousness beyond space and time (and for me this is undoubtedly true) but, if I were mistaken about this I would never know it.

The potential, unique relationship we may have with the divine is like knowing without knowing. An intuition that somehow imbues a certainty until we try to circumscribe or name it, when it is entirely lost. In short, true mysticism is that where

"No preconception Blocks or fills its mind, The void is its capacity, Its fruit, the windfall kind." (From mystic seed Roy K Austin)poetry.