Daniel 9:21 · World English Bible
Daniel 9:21 Meaning Yes
yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
What does Daniel 9:21 mean?
Gabriel is the angle of light within, not a being crossing the sky, and prayer is the exciting of electrons that dispatches photons, so the swift flight is light moving inside the head and not a messenger traversing distance. The whole encounter is a psychic trance reached in stillness, a meeting that happens in consciousness while the body sits quiet in prayer.
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Gabriel is the angle of light within, not a being crossing the sky, and prayer is the exciting of electrons that dispatches photons, so the swift flight is light moving inside the head and not a messenger traversing distance. The whole encounter is a psychic trance reached in stillness, a meeting that happens in consciousness while the body sits quiet in prayer.
The touch is the inner light reaching the one who has gone deep enough to receive it. What religion pictures as an angel arriving from far off is the melatonin-light of the awakened mind touching a man from within, close as his own awareness, met only in the deep quiet of prayer.
Gabriel: the angle of light within, the inner messenger that moves like the flying horse of the sky The evening: the settling hour of stillness when the inner light can be received
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Live Daniel 9:21 today
- Take a few minutes in the evening, lights low, phone out of reach, and do not ask for anything. Just sit and let whatever clarity is already in you come up to the surface on its own.
- The next time someone tells you something they did not have to say, a kind word, a hard truth, let yourself actually feel it land rather than brushing it off. Some touches arrive through other people.
- When you are waiting for an answer that has not come, a reply, a decision, a sign, stop refreshing for ten minutes and sit with the question instead. Often the answer was already in you and the noise was covering it.
What have I been waiting for from far off that is already this close?
The same truth in other traditions
Sufism · Rumi
Stop crying out to a distance. The one you are calling is closer to you than the voice doing the calling.
Zen
No one comes from far away to hand you insight. Sit still long enough and the light that was always in the room becomes obvious.
Hinduism · Upanishads
The light that seems to shine on you from outside is shining from within the heart. Turn the looking around and the source is right there.
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