“Mysticism, etymologically, means to enter the mystery. And I maintain that the best, most profound mystical literature today is coming out of science. The new creation story is that everything—each of us—is mystery. What we’re finding is that the smallest part of of the atom is mystery. It’s dancing. And then of course the macrocosm is a mystery.
In the previous scientific worldview, mystery was “just what we don’t know yet. We’ll solve it.” It’s not that way. Death is not something you solve. Love is not something you solve. A broken heart is not something you solve. It’s something you experience.
It’s Moses on the mountain. Moses had his experience with the burning bush. We’re learning that every bush is a burning bush, burning with photons and photosynthesis and this amazing cosmic process that was invented a few billion years ago, a process that goes back to the original fireball.
Mysticism is awe. And I think any human being who’s lost awe is really a lost person. A civilization that’s lost awe, an educational system that can’t teach awe and nurture it, a worship system that is devoid of awe because it is so full of human verbosity, is perverse. These systems are doing the opposite of what we have to do, which is to awaken the heart.”
- Dr. Matthew Fox -
