Unknown Man [antikvár]

UNKNOWNMANINTRODUCTIONUnknown Man is neither a scientific hypothesis nor a mystical truth. It might best be described as an English eccentric needing an introduction.Its genesis was one of those awakening visions which happen once in a lifetime when the miraculous landscape of reality is lit up by a sudden flash of lightning only to disappear again into the normal twilight world. But once the real universe has been tasted the old familiar one can never be quite the same.It miraculously happened for me one spring morning in the bleak surroundings of a slum in the East end of London. Why it should have chosen such an incongruous setting is one of the mysterious jokes of existence. For the last fifteen years since that moment I have often found only helplessness in my attempts to explain how this real world appeared to me in that brief glimpse.All that really can be said is that It just was. Time stopped, all and everything was intensified a thousand-fold and existence shone in full ecstatic wonder.As 1 watched Londoners in the street going about their lives there appeared a dark luminosity within each being. Yet at the same moment there was a strange feeling that they were no more than sleepwalking robots utterly oblivious to that shining nature within themselves. The life force of each person was somehow entrapped within a dull dreaming shell which seemed to prevent any contact with the real and what could have been aflame with consciousness was gray and lifeless.Only seconds before I had been exactly like that and the awful recognition came that while only a hair's breadth divided the two states, 1 would also fall back into forgetfulness. What had gone wrong? What had happened to everyone?In the six months following this event there were a few sporadic encounters with reality, but one in particular was significant for the germination of this book. The image which appeared was of a new being, a tremendous magnification of our own potential yet at the same time an entirely new line, discontinuous with all that had happened before.Perhaps with a different cultural or religious background the