Mysteries

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There are mundane mysteries and they range from those which are very intriguing to those which are very frustrating. For example: "Who send me this Valentine's card?" or "Why does my roof still leak after I've done everything I can think of to solve the problem?"
And then there are the great existential and universal mysteries. "Is death the end of our consciousness?" "How did this amazing Universe come into being?" "What is time, if it can sometimes be bridged by visions into the future and when we can see stars whose light took millions of years to travel to be visible in 2002?" "How many dimensions are there?" And so on......

how much can we say about a mystery?

What can you say about mysteries that is not an oxymoron (an expression with a build-in contradiction)? A felled forest is no longer a forest, just like a mystery explained is no longer a mystery!
And what does "explained" mean?
An explanation is so often no more than a simplified aspect of a mystery where its multi-dimensional nature has been ignored in order to obtain an overview that satisfies us in some limited way.
We all know that a map is not synonymous with a territory. It is only a two-dimensional representation or symbol of it. If you know your atlas well, it does not mean that you have seen the sights, smelled the smells, heard foreign tongues and sounds and experienced what it is to live and travel in far-off landscapes.
And even if you had traveled all over the world, how much can you really know beyond gaining a bit of insight into the complexity and richness of the world and realising your own limits?

mysteries and 'wholeness'

So when people 'ex-plane' what is unknowable they inevitably 're-format' a multi-dimensional wholeness to a two-dimensional plane. Just like we re-format rich, living moments to photographs. We can catch a glimpse of the spirit of that moment in the photo, but it is not reality.
When a mystery is 'ex-planed' it becomes a 'my-story', rather than a mystery: our particular view of the unknown.
The occult sciences have always recognised that everything, which is whole, has hidden side by its very nature! The word 'occult' means 'hidden'.
We can sense and explore wholeness, but we cannot see it or describe it completely. Therefore it is an extremely difficult concept to approach logically. This is why conventional science has tended to ignore wholeness. It cannot be fitted into the straight jacket of theories and scientific methods, whether it concerns a 'whole human being' or an ecosystem.
The word 'Sacred' derives from the linguistic root for 'wholeness' in all the languages I know. The Anglo-Saxon word for sacred is 'heilig', for example, which simply means 'wholeness'. The word 'sacred' is also of course closely related to 'secret'.
Again: all that is whole has hidden aspects to it!
Maybe all 'whole systems', such as human beings, ecosystems, the Universe, and so on have therefore inevitably mysterious characteristics......

Mysteries are fertile sources for imagination, inventiveness and creativity

We don't often enough give credit to the fact that mysteries enhance our lives immensely and endlessly.
Just how much, was brought home to me when I attended an Earth Mystery Camp many years ago, where we made a study of crop-circles.
There were about 150 people in the camp and almost just as many theories as to what the crop-circles were all about. I know this because I went round with a notebook and collected the various ideas. They ranged from helicopters flying upside down, artwork by nightly hoaxers, fairy folk dancing, messages from ancestors about a serious shortage of water to come, electrical phenomena, some benevolent energies mutating grain seeds which we should save to plant in times of climate change and famine ahead, to a whole range of theories about aliens attempting to communicate with us. Some of these explanations, and the arguments supporting them, were extremely convincing, partly because the people who told them to me absolutely believed this to be the truth.
Ever since I've thought of mysteries as the great creative principle in our Universe.
A good mystery is an endless fertile source for our imagination, inventiveness and creativity. It fires our curiosity and sense of wonder and helps us to break through the boundaries of conditioning and dogma. A true mystery is never solved satisfactorily to all, and so it has the potential to enlarge and enrich us continually.

Sacred Groves and mystery

Sacred Groves are places where wholeness can be sensed and the inevitable mystery connected with this experience of wholeness uplifts and expands us. Our limited mortal selves and our Greater self, the One-that-is-All, meet and fertilise one another in this sacred space. Here we can get a sense of the 'productive paradox' which powers all life.
Alas we cannot promise you the same in this virtual-Sacred-Grove. What we can offer is THE GREAT MOUSE MYSTERY TOUR to instantaneously gratify your desire to explore NOW (only limited by your modem speed alas!).
We hope that you can find time and opportunity in your life to experience wholeness in the Great outdoors, where the magic of mystery is freely available and abundant: in your gardens, the city squares with those lovely trees, the clouds, the sky, the sea, the forest, and so on.
And let us not forget that we ourselves are mystery too!
In fact: it is a mystery that we ignore this so often.