It’s been “a long and winding road,” but found the destination, and not at all what you might think.

Nonetheless, I feel compelled to preserve for posterity in the hope that another may also benefit.

The problem should be obvious: the disconnected sense of angst or unease that can permeate the struggle for existence with little hope of success.

The solution, has been described as Nirvana, the sense of perfect peace.

Surprise! It’s not a far away place, but “within you.”

It’s the sense of self that’s defective, and you’d never guess this to be the case, because we feel so close to ourselves. It feels like it’s in here, obvious.

Yet, in transcendence comes true freedom.

Our physical sense operates to reveal objects. Things. Surfaces. Sensations.

And we may rarely recognize the tendency toward separateness.

It is metaphysical sense that reveals connectedness, unity, wholeness.

Interestingly, modern science is confirming this as we enter the world of quantum field theory, and quantum particle physics.

Most people claim they don’t really understand quantum phenomena, yet its essence of Unity is profoundly revealing.

There’s another preliminary aspect without which one cannot really understand, where I likely lose the other half of my audience, and that is the divine source of all being. You may say there is no such thing, and in a sense, you’re right – not a thing, a field, all encompassing Principle of “all real being.”

I believe it was the ancient Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu who said “whatever you say it is, it isn’t,” but it can be felt, known, understood, lived, joyed in.

It’s a subtle sense of continuity and connectedness.

Ask AI about quantum field theory, and you will discover.

Scientific revelation has always been a revolutionary idea introducing an idea heretofore unexperienced.

It’s really simple though. Wasn’t that St. Paul’s concern “I fear that you may lose the simplicity.”

You know quantum computers function very close to absolute zero, at a temperature where even molecular activity slows to almost absolute stillness. “Be still and know.” “Stand still and see the sure salvation.”

It has been observed that the human mind can be compared to the activity of a monkey incessantly jumping from thought to thought as from branch to branch in a forest of trees.

I now realize that “no matter” how well I describe the opposite of this fidgety state, just reading about it isn’t likely to make much difference in your life or experience. “Few there be that find it.”

But at least you can “set your feet on the path” and begin to recognize the possibility and that’s a first step.

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