"A person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect."
"Punta Paloma."
...They all happen to show aspects of a place called Tarifa where you stand on the edge of Europe which stretches behind you as far as the Arctic and yet just over there is... Africa! The area of the "Straits of Gibraltar" in general appeals as a territory which ignores the existing frontiers...a place for the inner- self to call home? Once upon a time such a territory did exist. It wa s known as "Vandalucia" and included parts of present day North Africa and Southern Spain...
So where is there of the mystic here? I think it's there in the desire to slough off a super- imposed identity, the "me" which is made up of things like names and nationalities. This vast space between the two land masses is populated by whales, dolphins and migrating birds and just to be in such a place is to be closer to the divine...
"Looking Across"
