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Mistiek 5 : onthegting

Die mistieke ervaring is ‘n proses wat aan die gang kom wanneer iemand bewustelik optree en tot God keer. Wanneer die mistieke ervaring gebeur, skuif die fokus weg van die persoon. Hy of sy sal die mistieke ervaring beleef alleen wanneer daar ‘n losmaking van die self plaasvind. Alles wat die mens bind en heg aan hom- of haarself, moet weggeneem word en wegval. Die mens word ‘n leegte, daar bly niks oor nie. Wat oorbly is nietigheid. Met ander woorde, dit is ‘n proses van “nietiging” (nie vernietiging nie). Die mens is totaal op God ingestel en op niks van die self nie. Voor en by God is die mens niks. Ons word losgemaak van al die konkrete dinge, van al die dinge wat op die ek gefokus is. Ons gaan ‘n ruimte in waarin daar niks is nie – niks van onsself nie. Ons laat die ek agter. Daarom leef nie meer ek nie.... ‘n Groter werklikheid, God self, kom ons lewe binne. Voor God is ons niks. Ons word gevul met God se teenwoordigheid. Ons keer terug tot God – wat alles in almal is! Ons ontdek ons ware bestemming, ons vaar die enigste veilige hawe binne.

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Misticism 5 : detachment

The mystical experience is a process that begins when someone consciously acts and seeks God. When the mystical experience happens, the focus shifts away from the person. The mystical experience will only be fulfilled when the person is detached from him – or herself. Everything that binds someone and that he or she is attached to, is removed and disappears. The person becomes empty, nothing remains. What is there, is nothingness. In other words, it is a proces of detachment, of becoming nothing. It means that someone will be completly focussed on God and not on the self. We are detached from all concrete things, everything on which I am normaly focussed. We enter a space where there i nothing – nothing of ourselves. We leave the I behind. Therefore I no longer live.... A greater reality fills my life, God enters. Before God we are empty. We are filled by the presence of God. We return to God who is everthing in everybody. We rediscover our true destiny, our deepest security.

He must become more. You must be my one and all, Father of the deepest mystery.

Cf. also Waaijman 63.