Bessie M. Lasky, Candle in the Sun (autobiography): "As I lay tucked in bed at night, thinking of the evening, a white light came into focus before my closed eyes. It grew brighter as I watched, until it seemed as tho' all the light in the world was there. I was dazzled and perplexed, wondering what this ray could mean. Where was it coming from? It completely enveloped my whole being and increased as the moments passed. It had come instantaneously. I seemed suspended in a wholeness of life, detached from earth. A part of me was radiating a new joy. I held this radiance for at least 15 minutes. Then it changed and disappeared. I fell into sleep, comforted and blissful for the first time. I decided never to speak about this experience, for they would never understand." (Comment by P.B.: Within the next few weeks she made a number of new friends all spiritually minded, or spiritually more advanced than herself: such persons she had never known before).
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 4 : Introduction To Mystical Glimpses > # 188
