26/06/2026
There have been many discussions in my household recently about the nature of the divine…so I want to share an encounter I had in a dream early on in my spiritual journey,maybe 25 years ago but as vivid today as it was then.
There were catacombs in a desert and in one of them a fire was burning like a tower of brilliant white flame, so bright you shouldn’t have been able to behold it but you could. It was a huge cylinder of light. There was no heat coming from it but something else was radiating from it, such that anyone who came and stood before it received something impossible to describe.
To me, it was not only a divine experience, it was also an encapsulation of what ‘God’ is, though God cannot be held in a word, though perhaps the word Yahweh (‘I am’) is closer. No words were exchanged before the fire, no one was pushing to be at the front, people came and went in perfect synchrony and it all took place in the simplest of places in the ochre catacomb. It was beyond all religion and of the purest kind of communication.
I was not setting out to paint this image but when I saw what I had created, it took me right back to the dream, thought here the white fire is only hinted at.
Have you ever had such an encounter or seen something like this?
