I do not know how long it lasted, perhaps only five or ten minutes before a filtering-back-down process slowly proceeded, taking another few minutes. The first thing I was aware of was the phrase "All in One," and then the rest of the usual scenery and place was apparent again. I felt great joy, peacefulness and marvel at understanding through experiencing the basic divinity and unity of the entire creation, a blessing which by its nature desires to be shared and known by everyone.

The effect of lightness and transformation stayed on in diminishing degrees for several months, and the basic "contact" with God has never left. Not long after the experience (within the hour) I again felt such joy I said, "Soul, come forth," and a lovely rush of joy and lightness flowed up from the heart center to the head, making all the landscape look bright and shimmering (I was then driving a car and had to keep from losing that awareness, too). I had never read or heard of this experience before, but later read of similar ones in many books, largely Eastern philosophical ones.

Light in the Spirit
There is nothing new about this idea of music and light flooding all the interstices of the universe. Three thousand years B.C., we find this statement from the Bhaghavad Gita: "The glory and amazing splendor of this mighty being may be likened to the sun rising at once into the heavens with a thousand times more than usual brightness. ., ."¹⁰

According to Pythagoras, "There is One Universal Soul, diffused through all things, eternal, invisible, unchangeable; in essence like truth, in substance resembling light."

For a moment on the Mount of Transfiguration, three of Jesus' disciples were permitted to see the light energy that is the true building material of man:
And after six days, Jesus taketh with him, Peter, James, and John, and leadeth them up into the high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so no fuller on earth can white them....^ll

Looking at these radiation phenomena from the vantage point of today's research, Dr. Donald Andrews informs us . . . the light streams into the person from all the organs and also from the universe and the different planets. It is also radiated outwards. The essence of the stars is in this room. The music is broadcast out in different wave lengths. Every heart beat and thought goes out as a wave into the universe. We are in contact with the Eternal, embraced by it and in it.^l2

Ervin Seale, in a recent lecture to New Thought students, gave definitions of Body, Mind, and Spirit.^l3 He envisaged the world as a realm of unity, proclaimed by all the great world religions. Out of this he saw a stepping-down of energies to the level of Mind, where for the first time, duality makes its appearance, in that we are dealing with both the universal and the individual minds. As these energies are stepped down still further, there is the appearance of the physical body.

In further unraveling these divine harmonies as they apply in the plant world, George Adams and Olive Whicher have done a masterful piece of work described in their book The Plant Between Sun and Earth. With the acknowledged help of leads provided by Goethe, they have discerned something of the great symmetry underlying plant structure and illustrated in geometric forms involved in the plant's growth patterns. Once again in this book we are conscious of the interplay of two worlds of energy: one, physical and "tangential," and the other, spiritual and "radial."