Piercing the veil
To find ‘the place where the sky and the earth touch,’ and open the mysterious gateway which separates this world from the other.
—Camille Flammarion
What is reality?
Science has proven the manifest world to be as illusory as ancient spiritual wisdom proclaimed it. What we perceive as solid matter is really vibrating energy. The act of observing something physically alters it on a subatomic level. Our bodies emit signals that escape our notice yet have a discernible effect on the world around us.
Primitive ways of understanding the world, dismissed since the Enlightenment, are now being rediscovered by science.
Magicians, alchemists, scientists and poets alike all seek to penetrate the mysteries that dance just beyond our field of vision. We yearn to draw back the curtain of illusion and glimpse the inner workings of the universe. The paths we walk, the methods we employ, and the worldviews we hold may drastically differ, but our aims stem from the same innate drive to explore and discover. Some of us direct our attention outward, dissecting the mechanical workings of the world. Some are drawn inward to explore the hidden mysteries within.
He would live on those exalted heights, where the seer now dwells. He longs to be above the plane of sorrow and trial and human misery.
—Louis Plante
I believe all paths lead to the same place, eventually.
The Ancient Egyptian mysteries tell us that “no mortal shall pierce the Veil of Isis.” Her mysteries lie far beyond our puny ability to comprehend. Yet we all have the seed of desire within us to try—a spark drawn like a moth back to the flame of its source. So we seek.