Some attempt by Havel to put his mystical experience into words -
"But what is, this rather cryptic 'Being'? I've been using the term for too long now not to feel that the time has come to throw a little light on it....First of all, then: my only truly certain and indisputable experience is the experience of Being in the simplest sense of the word, that is, the experience that something is….The first layer...includes all my direct experience of the world and myself as they manifest themselves to me on various levels of perception. The second layer - far less direct and vivid, yet incomparably more profound and essential - is the experience of "Being" in the sense that I am using it here....Essentially it is an assumption (or a feeling? a conviction? a certainty? a faith?) that everything I experience on the first level is not, somehow, exhausted by itself, is not 'just that' with 'nothing more to it,' but rather is...expressions of something infinitely more consistent, absolute and absolutely self-defining. There is here an undeniable intimation not only that 'there is something behind it all,' but also that somewhere in the fathomless depths...of everything that exists there is something beyond which there are no more 'beyonds'...."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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