Since the Christian homestead is the intellectual background of my growing up and formation, it is true that the notes that I write and the thoughts I share are taken found from that homestead. Sometimes I am also able to share some resources that my neighbors have shared with me. Although the leaves, flowers, and seeds that I can share are mostly from this homestead, many of them can also be found in neighboring homesteads. Or, I think, can be tried there too.

I think this is true. Mysticism is a universal plant that can be found, not very rarely, in all of our homesteads. It is there in Judaism; it is there in Hinduism; it is in Shintoism; it is in Buddhism; it is in Islam; it is there in Christianity.

Although it has grown universally in all these homes, and can still be picked up from there, I suspect whether any of us consciously do cultivate and consume it. As a result, ill health has increasingly affected us and our society, and sickness has become our general inheritance.

Who knows, perhaps all this was meant to happen. However, in the coming times, we must turn more to mysticism. That is the future of religion and spirituality. The unrest and intolerance that we see nowadays are only attempts to hold on to the familiar past. Past is never going to return. And none of us can live in the past. Therefore, these attempts are all fruitless and futile efforts. How far can we go carrying empty shells?

But the first thing that needs to be done to prepare us for the mysticism which is going to be the future, is to grow inwardly. The first step is to have reflectiveness. Do everything in a reflective way. And undertake an effort to let go of the emptyshows!