1.
Thought cloaks mystical consciousness
with identity, time, and story.
We see only what we think.
Ceasing thought reveals
a naked emperor,
until even the emperor disappears.

2.
Naked awareness is mystical consciousness.
Without thought, we don’t know
who we are,
where we are,
or what the world is.
Yet that is the threshold.

3.
In mystical consciousness, we discover
the enchanted land we left in early childhood,
woven of mystery, magic, and myth.
Talking animals,
welcoming trees,
singing streams,
great mountains,
and divinity itself
respond to our presence.

4.
And here’s the point:
only mystery will restore the divine world.
What we think we know
is the emperor’s next illusion
cloaking Eden.