There are times when the Spirit, the guide of the mind, draws it away and baptizes it in a sea of essential light. One person told me: When the Father's Mercy shines forth upon me and carries my mind off into this glorious sight, before it is swallowed up in ecstasy and non-knowledge and is stupefied, I see my mind diverting itself in the sea of life, swimming in the waves of light, plunging and surfacing, inhaling the odour of life, and being wonderstruck; rising and sinking, and being made radiant. (D22)