The cosmos is its own origin and source, Nature as a whole is divine. Nature was here before me, it is my mother, my father, it is authority and creative instance, it inspires my admiration and reverence. To admire god-Nature I do not close my eyes; I open them and contemplate the nature around me, within and without. I see only existence, transience and action: an innate and intrinsic exuberance in incessant change. I see that I am part of this movement, I am a citizen of the world, part of the Earth, of the Solar System and of the Galaxy, I belong to the Universe, I am part of the Universal divinity: we feel ourselves separate until we realize that we are not.
I understood that everything is, in one way or another, within cosmic nature, in its known or unknown aspects, that the Universe, absolute existence, can only be subject and object of itself, sufficient unto itself. I found it meaningful to focus my attention here and now, on the beauty, power and integration of nature, to honor, celebrate and feel life more fully. I understood that the meaning of our existence is grounded in being a part of the universe capable of contemplating itself. I found greater meaning in seeking transcendence by focusing attention on the universal infinite, cultivating the vision of divinity in the contemplation of Nature.
After early childhood, when the age of reason arises, it is likely that we cease to perceive and experience this sense of divine unity, ceasing to see the magnificent radiance of beauty and harmony that emanates from Nature. We forget that we are part of the totality; focused on our subjectivities, immersed in symbols, centered in the sphere of concepts and their limitations, we come to experience ourselves, in thoughts and feelings, as separate from the rest. Together with language, we acquire the ability to classify things into categories and classes, sometimes ceasing to see the mystery of oneness, the surprise, the extraordinary unexpectedness of its simple presence, its singularity and royalty. We callous the feeling, we develop, as it were, a veil, a grammatical filter, between the world and consciousness, restricting and conditioning our capacity to be enthused and enchanted. Life, existence as a whole, seems to lose its brilliance and enchantment, becoming trivial: an illusion engendered by routines, automatisms and dissociations. By learning how to renew access to this glorious vision, the magnificence will always be here, awakening the child in us, creativity and fluidity. One of the tasks we need to undertake as adults is to rediscover this pristine vision. Each of us, through the senses and emotions, can access Nature, discover within ourselves what best awakens the perception of the sacred.
The heart of this pantheistic work is to highlight the vision and feeling that we are fully part of the great sacred cycle of life. The expression 'mystical experience' may convey the idea of the intangible, but it actually reveals something more hidden and mysterious, in the sense of ineffable, a testable event, to be experienced, yet difficult to describe — like the beauty and the perfume of a flower. Pantheistic mysticism intends to facilitate the perception of our oneness, deepening our reverence for Nature and the universe, tempering the experience of the totality. For me, such an intent is more easily experienced by partaking of a 'sacred medicine' such as the Ayahuasca brew, a traditional potion of South America. A mystical and traditional drink that can provide, when served in a ritualistic context and shared with the proper intention, what is called an entheogenic experience: the experience of God in us, the "namaste" of the yogis.