"Everything is all right. Everybody will be all right". A mystical experience by an anonymous woman.
The following account is one of my most beloved mystical experiences:
"In this account from Prof. David Hay’s Exploring Inner Space, a female writer recalls a mystical religious experience from childhood — an account that echoes an experience of the famous mystic Julian of Norwich:
“My father used to take all the family for a walk on Sunday evenings. On one such walk, we wandered across a narrow path through a field of high, ripe corn. I lagged behind, and found myself alone. Suddenly, heaven blazed upon me. I was enveloped in golden light, I was conscious of a presence, so kind, so loving, so bright, so consoling, so commanding, existing apart from me but so close. I heard no sound. But words fell into my mind quite clearly — ‘Everything is all right. Everybody will be all right.'”
The quote above is from the following goldmine of an article, by Ken Vincent: "Chapter 9: Mystical Religious Experiences and Christian Universalism" (from the book "God is with us. What Near-Death and Other Spiritually Transformative Experiences Teach Us About God and Afterlife", 2019. A real goldmine of a book, the whole of it can be read at www.near-death.com, scroll down on the list here)
The reference Ken Vincent made to the 1300-century mystic Julian of Norwich is to her book "Revelations of Divine Love", and specificially to this passage, that I quote from her book, also quoted in this article:
“In my folly, before this time I often wondered why, by the great foreseeing wisdom of God, the onset of sin was not prevented: for then, I thought, all should have been well. This impulse [of thought] was much to be avoided, but nevertheless I mourned and sorrowed because of it, without reason and discretion.
“But Jesus, who in this vision informed me of all that is needed by me, answered with these words and said: ‘It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.'
“These words were said most tenderly, showing no manner of blame to me nor to any who shall be saved.”
This is so foreign to Middle Age Catholicism, that I believe it was a genuine vision, and that it really was Jesus who said these words to Julian.
