Temple of Mystique

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Mystique means that not everything is out in the open – not just as things are, or appear to be, but it implies that one can be, imagine and feel more than that which is tangible and immediately visible. One perceives more by turning within, having a rich inner life, including spiritual experience. Mystique simply points inwards, to realms of consciousness within oneself. It also connects us with other individuals on subtle levels and through knowing the cosmos by transcending the material world as well. It implies beauty, mystery and depth.

Negative Mystique can be a cover. It can be for good or ill, a result of not seeing clearly. It can feed our fears and protect us from what we do not want to see. We can therefore also criticise or condemn groups of people and not give them a chance or allow acknowledge their existence.

Mystique also conveys mystery: a pose, a silence, a veil, a costume, an air, an attitude, hiding that which can and cannot be revealed; that is, by concealing that which could be revealed, we entice people to look deeper, to search within themselves, because the y cannot find what they seek even on a superficial level, in front of themselves, out in the world. The world of today does not understand this.

Humanity puts everything it sees and thinks and knows out into the national and global arena of the media and then identifies with it, yet the sum of expression and reality offered to humanity by people through this lens of the media is a shallow, external version of the human race. The mistake is believing the myth that this is all humanity is. We are therefore in danger of losing that which is hidden and not valuing true quality.

Calling a spade a spade is not much use if that is all you are left with. No garden, no vegetables, no purpose, no individuality or awareness of any depth or breadth, just a dumb piece of wood stuck to some metal. Not knowing who you are or what life is about. Not knowing that there is a rich inner world to experience and that, when you dig down deep inside yourself and cultivate your inner garden, work on yourself, then the flowers and vegetables that represent the happiness and fulfilment you seek can grow. And, as they flourish they can be shared with the world to inspire others. When there is neither stillness nor depth, and no practice that facilitates depth and concentration, people are left with the husk, with a fruitless existence and frustration that they may be wont to take out on others. To be empty via a world of shallow emptiness is to feel secure? To accept what you see in the world, and in the media especially, is to know truth and reality, to be real? To be plastic, to be an animal, to never see beyond the physical dimension of life, is to be human? To be insensitive, fearful, proud, take yourself seriously and compete with other egos is the highest expression you can manage? To conform is to be in control?

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