So, in darkness, I allow for that which I don't know yet. I cast aside the judgmental self which claims certainty. Mystery dwells in darkness, and I wait for that which has not yet been revealed. It is so easy to say only that which is perceived with our five senses is all that there is. Yet science is showing us day by day, there is more than that.

Scientists probe the realities unseen with our naked eye, and we know there is more than that. Gravity holds the large mass bodies of stars and planets in their places and relative orbits, stars not moving very much, just slightly as in precessional movement. There among the large bodies, is the ordering element. But in the tinier worlds within the tiny atoms, there are yet other types of ordering elements, the 'strong force' which holds the nuclei together and a weaker, more chaotic force. How, then to make these separate ordering systems come together, that is what scientists today study with the 'string theory'. Mathematically it all holds together, and they hope to have physical proof for these 'strings' which calm down the chaos at the quantum level. They posit in addition to the dimension of time, and the three dimensions of 'up/down, left/right, forth and back' an additional seven dimensions for these strings and membranes to move about.

My mind boggles. We have clearly proven the existence of the invisible to our naked eye atoms and their inner particles. To one never seeing the proof, they might declare this is all wild eyed fantasy, philosophy at very best. Yet we have created the tools which allow us to know these deeper realities.

So in marvel I am at that. These scientific discoveries were once unrevealed Mysteries waiting in the darkness. So I embrace Darkness, and all the Mysteries yet to be revealed.

At this point, I thought I'd let Deep Self speak:

If I take it here with elemental speed, shall we have the revealing? All that is Surface Self shall pass away. Only that Essential Spark goes on. But this is your True Self, anyway. You will carry your Xeper (growth) with you into your next life. But all that is temporal, rooted to this here space and time, in this flesh house, THAT goes! No more 'Joan Lansberry'. But that Deep Self which has served to inspire, and will continue to inspire, will continue to inspire housed in a new flesh body. You marvel that you have given your Daimonic Self a man's face and frame? Daimonic Self, though connected to your flesh frame, is yet beyond it, transcends it. This vast, unexplored region holds the keys to past and future. You know this vast, timidly explored region holds the keys to the underlying Matrix which holds all together. Trust then, the hand that holds those keys. It is your Self, your Divine Self. Let the fearful say otherwise. You know the surety of those keys. Trust then, the hand that holds those keys. JAL, 8 - 14 - 04

Now, this 'trust' isn't as in 'blind faith', but rather to have confidence in Deep Self. Experience has shown me Deep Self is a revealer of Mystery, and so based upon prior experience, I can have confidence. Up until this point, conscious surface self wasn't really willing to acknowledge immortality of the soul. Oh, I'd received many messages from Deep Self concerning it, but I always held myself aloof from this hope. Somehow, understanding the true nature of Deep Self, I know this is my immortal essence. 'Joan Lansberry' will pass away, and only what effects she has brought about in the objective universe will continue to give immortality to that name, so long as the results of her actions continue to have an effect on the objective universe. But that divine Spark within her, this will go on. I feel myself large with hope.