…I was always interested in the descriptions and philosophies of the mystical life. I remember as an undergraduate Reading Jacob Burma and having various Catholic friends who knew a certain amount about the mystical tradition in Catholicism, and I read…

…tremendous light experience of Saint John of the Cross when he was confined by his brethren to prison in Toledo And Jacob Burma records light experiences of this same kind. And one could find, I think without any difficulty, hundreds, literally hundreds of…

…this knowledge of the undifferentiated ground of all particular awarenesses. And I shall conclude with an anecdote which is told about Jacob Burma, the great Protestant mystic of the early 17th century. He was asked by a young friend where does the soul go…

…to him and which showed him the way out of his prison. And a little later, we find the great Protestant mystic, Jacob Burma, describing experiences of the same kind in which he was surrounded by and swallowed up in this tremendous light. Well, this…