In the Flow, In the Zone

Re limits: Of course, we all have them, and in wide variety and abundance. The mystic seeks, as an often far ideal, to come into touch with a Mind that is limitless and illimitable, but that, of course, is only an ideal. And even when she momentarily succeeds, her human part (called "human or lower nature" in mysticism) soon reasserts itself, recreating boundaries and limits.

It is only for rare moments that even the mystic of many millennia can come in touch with that omnipotennt Mind that dwells deeply, very deeply, in her Unconscious. So, mystics are almost always "ordinary, everyday" people, despite their moments of true transcendence.

The best creative person, any really creative genius will tell you, allows the gift to appear. She does not force it, or see herself as its origin. The best painter "lets the painting paint itself," the best writer "lets the script write itself." So, the challenge of the mystic is to allow life to live itself, spontaneously and naturally, through her-- without interfering with its natural patterns. To do this, she tries, works hard, to get into a state of Flow, which is effortless cooperation with the One in the Unconscious. Mystics believe that, if we can stay "out of the way," what will manifest is the higher Nature, or Love.

It is not easy to learn to do this, to be in the "zone," and it takes much practice. But it does not stop at simply being in the Zone; the mystic must then learn to live actively out of that inner Space.