Mystical Fact on Record:
People can resist and reject all they want
Ideas of the mystical, the transcendental,
Of the awakening, the enlightenment, some other state of consciousness,
But they still recognize its validity in that they all feel themselves to be incomplete!
They're just not yet up to being able to locate the feeling as residing entirely in the mind.

 

Regarding The Matter Of Knowledge & The Awakening:
As she pulled up the covers and rolled over, Zoroaster's girl friend said, "Wake me when it's over." And he immediately reflected on the fact that That's just about the time when most people will find it possible to do so when they're dead--and (shall we say) perhaps a bit too late.

The voice in the doorway announced,
"Don't anyone move! I have an explosive device." But no one inside had moved in years.
(I can double-gut-gar'antee you that some of ya don't wanna know what the real title of this item is!) It was decided that the matter would be once and for all settled in the middle of the town's main street (some time around noon or so), by a showdown between the hombre with the history book and the side-winder with the literary anthology.
But then a tin?horn with religious scripture turned up demanding that he be allowed to participate, and, Jeeze, after that the whole shebang began to unravel!

The Territorial Educational Council later adopted the motto:
"Sequential Thinking Is A Terrible Thing To Waste On The Mind And Especially Vice Versa (Pardner)."

What is the difference between a robot & a mystic?
To ordinary minds the concept of a robot is more acceptable than that of a mystic.
Okay, to a mystic's mind, what is the difference?
(Maybe we should let well enough alone, right here.)
The saying of "I" is a form of auto-sycophancy
A sucking-up-to one's own imaginary ass.

The simple worship cows,
The less simple--gods,
The more sophisticated--the ideas of gods,
But only the few know
The physical location of Jerusalem, Mecca, and the Bodhi Tree.

The many stories of creation were provided for those men who did not want to know-where-they-came-from.
(Once Adam developed strong thighs,
God gave him a bus pass.)