"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creation out of void, but out of chaos." -- Mary Shelley We are all mystics before the age of five, before the development of ego, hence “a little child shall lead them.” Hence also the labile ecstasies and undefended agonies which fly through a child’s consciousness from one moment to the next. Those around us know exactly how a child feels, who hasn’t learned to inhibit those feelings, undisciplined and spontaneou

So, what do you think about when you’re not thinking about anything else? Where does your mind go when it isn’t busy with goal-directed tasks requiring your attention, or being drawn to the external world by its normal busy set of events, its normal information overload? What is that part of your mind which just won’t shut up when you are trying to get to sleep, or that gets in the way when you are trying to quiet and center yourself in meditation, or even just “sit quietly i