Cosmic Consciousness Out of the Blue

by Muz MURRAY
(NIMES, France)

It was in Cyprus, January 1964, during seven years vagabondage around the world, when it happened.
I had been through a great deal of emotional turmoil and privation during my travels. My money had just been stolen and I arrived at the port of Limassol, with only seven and a half pounds in my pocket.

I was at a crossroads in my life, not knowing which way to turn. A couple of evenings later, I was sitting gazing vacantly at the sea in the afterglow of sunset, having just finished a meal in a little Greek eatery. I was feeling very tranquil and relaxed, when I began to feel a strange pressure in my brain. It was as if some deliciously loving hand had
stroked numbingly up the back of my head and descended through my skull, as if it was pressing another ethereal brain on top of mine.
I felt a thrilling liquidity of being and an indescribable sensation, as if the whole universe was being poured into me, or perhaps rather as if the whole universe was welling up out of me from some deep centre. My ‘soul’ thrilled and swelled and my consciousness passed out across the ocean and the land in all directions, over the ocean and through the sky and out into space. Within moments I was among the stars and planets and strange entities of space.
Somehow I was aware of great beings, millions of miles high, moving in space, through which the stars could be seen. Wave after wave of revelation swept through my whole being, too fast for my normal conscious mind to record other than the joy and wonder of it.
In those moments I lived and understood the meaning of the esoteric dictum, ‘As above, so below’. Every single cell of my body seemed to record and intuit the experience, retaining it like the negative film emulsion in a camera. I was aware that every cell had its own limited form of consciousness; although collectively they were all still subject to a single controlling consciousness which was mine. And it seemed to me that the whole of humanity was in the same condition: each ‘individual’ believing in his own separate mind, but in reality being in-dividual (that is, indivisible) from a single controlling consciousness—that of ‘Absolute Consciousness’ itself.

Thus was I impregnated with the understanding of our relationship to what others called 'God' without having any real notion of what the word meant.

This event changed the whole course of my life.