Silence Beyond the Silence (eBook)

Mark Haberstroh (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-0983-0331-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The Silence Beyond the Silence contains the literary results of long-time consciousness research through meditative experience. The short stories and poems are crafted, for the most part, out of direct experience. The imaginative element is sourced in what is real, which, like a seed, sprouts and grows into a living plant. And, so grows or unfolds the plot, characters, and cadence of the story or poem out of that core experience. The intent is to draw the reader into thoughts and feelings that feel deeper, stronger, and less separate ... something closer to a merging or union with movement and meaning ... a stronger and more vital connection to nature, to all of life, to our life. The Silence Beyond the Silence is a place, a place where we have walked through a door, closed it behind us, and turned around to observe what lies before us. Most of us in special moments can achieve silence inside ourselves. At this moment a door appears before us, which may be opened if we only have the key. This key is a knowing that we must remain awake after we turn off our senses. When we no longer see, hear, or feel, but remain completely awake and alert, new perceptions can and do approach us from interior worlds. Here time stops and adventure begins, if one is willing to explore the new frontier, for that is what it is ... the new frontier.

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The Silence Beyond the Silence tells tales of Imagination. One story concerns an Egyptian Pharaoh who awakens after being entombed to find himself in a completely new mode of consciousness. Another chronicles a young woman's near-death experience as she fiercely battles for survival against the powers of darkness. Yet another story imagines a possible past life of Edgar Cayce in Persia. There is also a tale about the redemption of a black magician. These stories and many more are intermixed with poems of Love and Beauty. Approached with an open and receptive mind, the content may bring all manner of adventure. Someone passes by a rose and quickly remarks, "e;Oh, how lovely,"e; while another stands and remains awestruck at the rose's perfection and is moved to the soul's depths. So much depends upon the beholder. What you pull from this small book of stories and poems is entirely up to you. If you are drawn to tales that challenge the mind, that challenge belief systems and deepen the feelings, then take the next step and read this book. It will surprise you.

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The Physician (a Karmic Tale)*

For a few moments respite he lay eyeing in wonder the starry firmament, Allah’s magnificent display of Angelic beauty, and witnessing his generosity toward all creation. The pain then returned to his blistered and cracked lips, his burnt flesh, and the bleeding wound in his leg. He could not even tend himself. More painful and unendurable was the return of his delirium, which ebbed and flowed during the night. He could bear the physical pain but the weakening of his mind and undermining of his intellect, his cognitive acuity, immediately propelled him into an abyss of despair. In moments of clarity he considered his circumstance, having been abandoned to die in the desert sands of his beloved Persia. Through delirium he suffered the torments of hell. His response to this was to open his heart in complete surrender to the inexorable and immutable Will that governed the course of his life. For this he was greatly rewarded, as is the case with those in Faith. He was a physician in the service of the Caliph’s vast army, but his journey to this place began long ago.

As a nomad, he had wandered from desert to town to city searching for knowledge. He could only acquire knowledge through travel. First, it was anathema to him the prospect of being a sedentary scholar who lacks life experience. Secondly, different entities lived and worked in varied geographical areas. Added to the long list of both good and evil unseen beings to be studied, of which he spoke little and knew much, was also the human being. The study of human beings and their illnesses was the primary purpose of his quest. He sought to discover how these illnesses bespoke a relation between a man’s moral-spiritual development and certain noxious beings that prey upon human weakness to cause disease. The unsettled quality of his nomadic life also reflected accurately a certain inner restlessness or disquiet, a karmic heritage from being joined to his family and tribe. They were, for the most part, camel thieves, pillagers, murderers, and swindlers. As a boy, he had been banished from his tribe for his lack of calculating dishonesty and aggression, both qualities that commanded high respect. There had been no issue with his ability to defend himself when necessary, but the boy lacked every single other quality required to continue the family heritage. It was unbearable to them, simply not to be tolerated, that he refused to learn the vitally useful art of lying. He also balked at the pilfering of goods and jewelry and refused to treat animals and women with the harshness they deserve. The boy simply did not fit and at the age of ten was banished in shame from his father’s tent as an incorrigible failure. Abandoned at a watering hole on the road to Mecca, he began his new life as the one who walks alone.

He became a street beggar and entertainer in that thriving city, the great holy city. The tricks his family used to defraud and swindle he used merely to entertain. Contributions from the appreciative onlookers barely sustained him. One day an older man, one of the amused onlookers, recognized the boy’s quick intellect, deft physicality, and gentle demeanor. He offered the boy a position as an assistant. So began his long tutelage under this wealthy benefactor who removed the young boy to Gondishapur. As an assistant, he served his Master diligently, aiding him with all the mundane chores of daily living. He also aided him in the illustration and making of medical books and bookbinding, for his teacher was a highly reputed physician. He had recognized that the boy would benefit from exposure and education and resolved to train him accordingly. He also felt the world would be well rewarded by his generosity. Given the boy’s lack of pedigree, he would never rise to wealth and fame, but the old man had no use for these either. What was important to him was whether a person chooses to either help or hinder. It was his immediate perception in Mecca that the boy was predisposed to the former.

As an apprentice and now youth, he had quickly learned his letters, and for twelve years absorbed in wonder the knowledge offered in the master’s massive library in Gondishapur. Without distraction, other than necessary attendance at surgery, he studied mathematics, astronomy, astrology, physiology, alchemy, history, the theology of Zoroaster, metaphysics, and much more. He drank deeply from the well of Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen, but was most drawn to the Indian physician Chakara. Without access to the academy or hospitals the young apprentice had the freedom to pursue, in a concentrated way, avenues of healing more suited to his nature. As Arabic medicine preserved and collected the extant knowledge of the world, the tendency in its thinking was to divide, separate, and specialize. The lure in the Indian medicine of Chakara was its focus on unity, on the relation of all parts connected in an organic whole. This holistic perspective sought to prevent disease through a harmonizing of life and to aid the living for as long as possible. And it was the kindness and compassion emanating from Buddha that infused Chakara’s work and made such deep impact upon the young student. Through those preparatory years his accumulation of profound knowledge coupled with his determination to help and heal gave him the focus and skills of an outstanding physician. When his patron died the lack of formal schooling and family connections curtailed the young physician’s ability to secure a position, and he was once again on his own. He moved from place to place continuing his studies and treating the sick whenever summoned. It was through treating a wounded soldier on the road that he was conscripted into the Caliph’s army. During a military excursion against an unruly and distant tribe his group was ambushed, and the ensuing skirmish left him pierced by a lance and abandoned, as he was unable to walk.

Prior to the rise of the morning sun, as dawn approached, his closed eyes and open heart brought vision to his spirit. Out of the white sands a great white limestone wall emerged from beneath the desert floor, an interminably wide megalithic monument which rose and rose to the sky. Upon the face of this wall vertical rows of black glyphs from an ancient, unknown language were flowing as in a river, upward toward heaven. It was as if the earth had created a pathway for the conveyance of earth wisdom heavenward, bearing return gifts. In fact, the direct opposite was the case, as the vision depicted the inflow of wisdom from above, bestowed by grace, streaming into his soul. As the eye of his mind opened in understanding, he perceived change in any glyph upon which his gaze rested. That change revealed itself as a living picture in which living events took place. Before long the transformation of glyphs into pictures was complete and the river of living events, now multi-colored, glowing, radiating, and ever widening, was understood by him to be the reflected river of life, within which the entire history of the world was recorded. It was immediately clear to him that this was the Akasha. He could dive into this river and relive the history of humanity. The history of medicine became alive. He found himself in the river as a past participant, a co-creator, and helper of mankind. Through direct spiritual experience he met Galen and Aristotle and Chakara, recording their lives and etching their experiences into his deepest soul. The experience of pure freedom in following his thought to a place in time, any place in time, afforded him an expansion in consciousness necessary for his future work and for enduring the trials to come. For this was the end of the first day.

During the night, his consciousness awakened in sleep, or his attempt at sleep, and he found himself outside his injured body. This increase in mobility through separation brought further conviction in the reality of the spirit, of his eternal Self as the primary and original entelechy … that as his wounded body lay with life slowly ebbing away, his real being would continue onward for all time, that Allah’s creation would provide for him a new field of experience beyond all imagining. Upon awakening, he also felt a moral obligation to remain bound to his physical self, his injured vehicle, as if a deep universal law, a law about justice and fairness bade him do so. He resigned himself to this with the same recognition of truth as was immediately clear to him while taking the Hippocratic oath. He held the bedrock belief that the human being should maintain life, should live as long as possible with the intent to extract its life lessons up until the very last breath; that this would fulfill divine law in return for the gift of life in conscious existence. Thus, ended the second day.

At noon of the third day he had returned to his body for the last time. Through the encrusted slits in his eyes he looked straight into the brutally hot sun. In response to this final act of both defiance in protection of life and acceptance of ordained fate, there appeared to him the illuminated face of Mohammad covering the sun and conveying to him approval for a life well lived. His heart began to melt in the irradiated presence of his beloved Master. Before long the image of his prophet began to fade or be pulled aside, like a veil drawn open from the center, and behind him there appeared in golden glory the Buddha. The physician gazed in awe into the eyes of loving kindness and compassion, gracing his presence as he lay dying. He did not realize that this was but a new beginning, for the visage of the illustrious Buddha was, like a veil, also pulled aside and, once again, came another startling vision. For behind the...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• ISBN-10: 1-0983-0331-8 / 1098303318
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0983-0331-0 / 9781098303310