Notes from the Dream (circa 1982-1986) - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

I sought after the answer to the big questionsand had felt the disappointment of no answer.I believed, (rightly or wrongly) that if I foundand experienced the answerI would be free;free of painfree of sorrowand in some new state of consciousness thatwas indescribably blissful.I began to meet gurus and teachers whilereading of sages, seers, and scholars who hadbeen discussing this.Yet there remained no “experiential” answer.THAT one universal truth labeledenlightenment had eluded me.Those who had claimed to taste or drink theexperience of that truth could only provide mewith the words of the unexplainable which laybeneath the surface of what we call ordinaryconsciousness. Somehow, in the historyof “time,” those that have entered into thehollowed halls of TRUTH, have never returnedthe same.I had heard of the incomprehensible bliss inthe Hindu tradition, the pure emptiness ofthe Buddhist tradition, the obviousness of theZen tradition. I had known and experiencedthe feeling of completion and wholenessand interconnected unity and power called31