…and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

I would love to hear people’s thoughts about the following.

For years I thought that the universe, God/Light, was all there is until I came across the description of the Absolute, (also called the Void by others), in The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky.

It is "Be-ness" rather than Being (in Sanskrit, Sat), and is beyond all thought or speculation.

http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/s...ndamentals.htm

Years later I came across descriptions of the Void which resembled the description given by Theosophy.

http://www.vision.net.au/~apaterson/spiritual/void.htm

The experience was terrifying to me as a child because the VOID had no actual form and as such was empty, yet paradoxically was so big as to be seemingly infinite (even though I couldn't conceptualize infinite at the time), hence my childhood perception that it was HUGE. But perhaps more disturbing to me as a child was that IT could not be defined in any terms of this reality in that it had no tangible presence even though I was intimately aware of its presence (a paradox). Thus, there was no sound, no sight, no taste, no smell, no feel and no emotion about it, and yet somehow I was fully aware of its presence. Because the VOID seemed to be everywhere yet paradoxically nowhere, there was nowhere for me as a child to hide from it, which was why I was so terrified of it. I might add IT never did anything to harm me; it appeared to be devoid of emotion and just seemed to be dispassionately observing me. (The quintessential dispassionate observer so to speak)

'A primordial emptiness of cosmic proportions and relevance' - Stanislav Grof

The following website also is interesting:

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/...azzledark.html

It was as if I'd emerged freshly made (complete with all the memories that constitute my personal identity) from a vast blackness that was somehow radiant, a kind of infinitely concentrated aliveness or pure consciousness that had no separation within it, and therefore no space or time.

Then there is the experience of Mellen-Thomas Benedict:

http://www.mellen-thomas.com/stories.htm

I was in the Void.

I was in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the beginning of time/the First Word/the First vibration. I was in the Eye of Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a religious feeling. Simply I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness.
When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and without end. That’s a mind expanding thought, isn’t it?

There are more sources but to quote them would make the post too long for people to even want to start reading it. As a matter of fact, it may be too long already.