A mystical experience in the form of a vision shared by Lola Georg.
This vision was revealed during silent meditation in a group setting.
In my mind’s eye, I am swirling, flying, round and round in circles. I am caught in a tornado, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. I see every kind of human event. Births, deaths, marriages, graduations, funerals, moving into a new home, moving away form home, traveling, families, birthdays, arguments, military conflicts, tenderness, caring at the beginning of life, caring at the end of life, caring in the middle of life, children stomping their feet, toys, games, destruction, construction, building up, tearing down, loving, hating, apathy, drug addiction, bereavement, alcohol abuse, military might, peace movements, . . . it goes on and on, round and round and round.
In my mind, I think, “There must be another way,” and instantly I am transformed out of the swirling circle and into the center. I watch, doe-eyed, as events, and people, and places swirl around me. I am in a giant cyclone that has no end and continuously circles around me. TV anchors, game shows, preachers, parents, children, presidents, politicians, love, hope, despair, all of it continues to circle round me. Like a hurricane whose life force increases, or a whirlwind that has no end, round and round it goes.
Slowly, I notice next to me, on my right, stands Jesus, in the calm of the eye of the storm. He smiles at me, and takes my hand. Together we watch the swirling, whirlwind of human existence with an observer’s curiosity, and an observer’s fascination. Round and round it all goes, never ending.
After a while, I begin to notice others. Each one says, “there must be another way.” And each time someone says it, they are instantly moved to the center of the cyclone with Jesus and me. They keep coming, one at a time. It is getting more crowded in the center. I am pulled away and loose the touch of Jesus’ hand. Eventually, there are more of us in the center than those that are swirling around in the circle. The circle begins to wobble with a lack of cohesiveness and structure. It bobbles, and fluctuates, and looses its momentum, until those of us in the center – those that have thought there must be a better way – have generated a new central structure that is strong, secure.
And then, in one blinding light, the center that held is transformed into a bright, clear pillar of radiant light – into space without time. In the flash of a holy instant, it is all dissipates into nothingness.
Lola’s Reflection:
This vision is very interesting to me, because it begins with me in the midst of a swirling cyclone and ends with a flash that dissipates into nothingness. I noticed that when I was swirling in the cyclone, I felt anxious, unstable, tense, chaotic, flying round and round, until I experienced a sense of ‘Enough!’ The only way out of the circle of turmoil was through the center. The center, in this instance, represents the ‘calm in the eye of the storm’ that I can return to at any time. Yet in turning towards the center, I also develop a an observer’s stance. No longer anxious or tense, I am at peace, observing with a sense of curiosity, quite like watching a train wreck where one can’t look away.
And slowly, after noticing Jesus, others join the center of the circle, until the critical mass of our numbers shifts the momentum. The whirlwind wobbles and collapses. The center becomes stronger and more stable. A critical mass of individuals questioning the status quo, actually changes the status quo from out there to in here. This vision gave me hope that humanity can change by shifting focus from the whirlwind of chaos to the peace within.
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