Home Light Quotes

“Outside of our space-time continuum is the metaphysical universe. How many dimensions it occupies – more or less than four – I haven’t a clue. Liberated from time, space has no meaning. However many dimensions exist, they’re not in another universe, they’re not out there beyond Pythagoras’s celestial spheres. The metaphysical world is all around us, all the time. It’s in another dimension we can’t see until the kernel of our consciousness is liberated from the husk of our brains. It’s right here, in the eternal now, less than a millimetre away at the end of my fingertip. Just through the plaster ceiling in the hospital ward.”
― John Booth, Home Light

“Only through the mind can the world be seen. Only through the heart can it be understood.”
― John Booth, Home Light

“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
― John Booth, Home Light

“The fact is, I’m scared of relinquishing my identity. But surely anxiety about losing my identity doesn’t make sense: I’ve already experienced what that feels like. Shaking off all the layers of self that I’d accumulated in my lifetime, like the layers of an onion, was a necessary step to passing through the doorway into the Light. All that was left was a name that no longer belonged to me and I’d shrugged that off too. So why should I feel anxious now? Isn’t this what I crave? To get closer to the state I was in inside the Light. Or was losing my ego actually a traumatic experience? Seventeen years spent constructing my identity and when I relinquished it, I was left only with the knowledge of how flimsy and insubstantial it all is. The scaffolding we build for ourselves is rickety, it has no foundation and it’s so easily demolished. Is that why I felt like an alien when I came back to earth? Or why, finding myself surrounded by crowds in the high street, I’d felt as fragile as a moth? Or why I suffered panic attacks in the lecture theatre packed full of other students? I can see a pattern again. I suppose it can’t be healthy in this life to abandon your identity all in one go as I’d been forced to, flying towards the doorway of Light. There are reasons we all spend years insulating ourselves from each other in the first place: survival. Some people grow thicker and thicker layers of shell simply to stop others getting through. I’m trying to do the opposite: to remain open.”
― John Booth, Home Light

“In the love of my parents that’s so conditional, in my love of nature that’s so ephemeral, in the love of a girlfriend that so far is either short-lived or unavailable? In all these thoughts I forget to question my love for myself. Squeezing out sponges of freezing water to rinse shampoo off car bodies, that’s the one thing I seem to be lacking.”
― John Booth, Home Light

“And here I am, back from the metaphysical world with first hand knowledge and I too am an animist; everything in nature really does have its own spirit. Maybe that’s our job in this world, to nurture and to balance the creative manifestations of Nature, the same thing our ancestors did for tens of thousands of years, instead of reaping the natural world for profit.”
― John Booth, Home Light