Martin Buber’s “First Vision” Account
The following words come from Martin Buber (1878-1965), a Jewish philosopher, educator, writer, and translator from Austria. Continue reading “Martin Buber’s “First Vision” Account”
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Ueshiba’s “First Vision” Account
The following account comes from Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969) from Japan, founder of the martial art Aikido:
Crystal clear, sharp and bright,
my mind has no opening for evil to roost.
The morning sun shines in,
My mind, too, is clear and bright; Continue reading “Ueshiba’s “First Vision” Account”
Shankara’s “First Vision” Account
The following is from Adi Shankara, the 8th century philosopher and theologian from India:
Now I will relate to you the nature of the Supreme Self, knowing which a person is freed from boundaries and attains Kaivalya, Unity…
It pervades the entire universe but nothing pervades it. It is effulgent by nature, and its splendor illumines everything… Continue reading “Shankara’s “First Vision” Account”
i thank You God for most this amazing
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes Continue reading “i thank You God for most this amazing”
Norris Stearns “First Vision” Account
This is an account written by Norris Stearns of Greenfield, Massachusetts, published in 1815, five years before Joseph Smith’s First Vision experience, in a pamphlet titled The Religious Experience Of Norris Stearns Written by Divine Command. The 35 page pamphlet can be read in its entirety online at this link. Here is an excerpt of part of his vision:
Hellen Keller’s “First Vision” Account
Hellen Keller, the famed author, activist, and lecturer who was deaf and blind from two years old, wrote of her spiritual life in an autobiographical book titled My Religion, also published as Light in My Darkness. It seems that Keller had significant mystical insights into the nature of her being. Reading another mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg, she says that the truths were “to my faculties what light, color and music are to the eye and ear.” Here is one selection from her book: Continue reading “Hellen Keller’s “First Vision” Account”
Unbounded Space “First Vision” Account
Ann Purcell relates the following short account from U. in Mongolia:
“Sometimes in meditation I experience deep silence, being in an unbounded empty space. Sometimes I see light in that empty space like the sun.”
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