When I tell people I'm into mysticism, they think I'm talking about Harry Potter magic. But mysticism isn't supernatural—it's experiencing reality directly instead of through the conceptual filters we've layered over everything since childhood.This episode demystifies mysticism by showing how concepts—while useful—aren't actually real. An inch doesn't exist. If you zoom in infinitely, there's no fixed starting point. The equator is imaginary. "Tree" is just a word we taught our kids to layer over what they're seeing. Even "you" is a concept, an imaginary outline drawn around your skin that makes you feel separate.The Hindus call this veil maya—the illusion of dividing the infinite into parts. The Judeo-Christians call it the fall—when Eve bit the fruit and suddenly felt naked and separate. God asked, "Who told you you were naked?"—essentially, "Who told you you were separate?"Mysticism is about going beyond these filters to experience what IS. Every spiritual tradition—Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism—naturally produced mystics who all say the same thing: union with the divine, dissolving separation, resting in being itself.Featuring Lao Tzu on "the Tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao" and "we work with the substantial but the emptiness is what we use" (30 spokes make a wheel, but the empty hub makes it turn), Yeshua (Jesus) meaning "Yahweh saves"—literally "being IS salvation," Meister Eckhart's "my eye and God's eye are one eye," Kabir on "the ocean merges into the drop," and Rumi's "The Guest House" (treat every emotion as a visitor sent as a guide).We discuss: why measurement is completely illusory, how life's purpose isn't reaching the final note but dancing to every note NOW, why "trust in Yahweh" means trust being itself, thinking you're separate makes you terrified, and how continuity of mindfulness makes you feel like you're floating.When you rest in being—in moment-to-moment experience instead of concepts—you intuitively feel you're one with everything. Not that "you are God" but that there is only God, and "you" is a useful convention like an inch. One awareness seeing through all eyes everywhere.This isn't intellectual. You can't grasp it with knowledge. See for yourself—rest in the spaces between thoughts. Tether yourself to experience or stay trapped in your skull, stressed and depressed.Want to share a thought?Support the show🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/standingnowhere🎧 Listen on your favorite app💬 Join our community on Discord📩 Email: [email protected](Tap “Support the show” above to become a Patron — thank you!)

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