SHACK 4165 SECRET PLACE

Courtesy  Christian Hem In'l

 Again as in previous Shack the Vicar and I got into 'the secret place of the Most High' He said in deep and earnest prayer he felt he entered a different Dimension, I felt the same in meditation and that Stillness was the highest form of prayer. We had a chat about deity and he prayed to Jesus and I have done on many occasions as well as Krishna and Buddha, however I felt the formless prayer or just to sit in stillness was for me the way I felt more comfortable.

The Secret Place for me was when thought naturally was absence not by suppression or act of will perhaps just surrendering to the quiet mind as natural as possible and perhaps acknowledging 'thy will be done or may my will be in tune with the Great Spirits Will' and the absence of images, not that Jesus, Buddha, Krishna images are displeasing but in that quiet empty space the spirt is felt behind the symbols that the pictures represent, they are human figures and images and in my view I need to get to the essence and feel the presence of that which is Most High.

We agreed to disagree and he felt I was a little if not wholly arrogant and that being a monotheist was somehow not a complete spiritual person.

SHACK    aka      GEOFF