"And the positive side is of tremendous significance, because everything in existence comes out of emptiness. Certainly that emptiness cannot be simply empty.

"If you cut a seed with a knife you will not find the leaves and the flowers and the fragrance. But given the right soil the flowers will come, the foliage will come, the fragrance will come – from where? We cannot find it in the seed; as far as we can see, the seed is empty. But certainly the seed is full of something which is invisible to us. It is full of all the possibilities that are going to happen: the foliage, the leaves, the greenery, the flowers, the colors, the fragrance – all is there.

"One name has become very important for those who are in search of the miraculous. Strangely enough, the name comes from the Soviet Union. There is a photographer – his whole life he has been developing sensitive plates, sensitive lenses. They are so sensitive that they can catch something of the future, because the future cannot be just absent; it may be invisible, but in some way it has to be present. The next moment that is coming cannot come out of a negative emptiness. It can come only out of a fullness, which looks empty to us because we are not so sensitive that we can see the invisible.

"And he has succeeded; he has developed a photography called 'Kirlian'; his name is Kirlian. He takes a picture of a bud, a rosebud, and the picture appears as a fully blossomed flower. He has pictured, caught the future. And when the bud becomes a flower after a few days, it is amazing that it is exactly a true copy of the picture that was taken by Kirlian before the flower was ever in existence. Certainly the flower was in existence, it was just not available to us. We were not so sensitive, our eyes were not so penetrating, our insight was not so far-reaching.

"He has taken pictures of people who are going to be sick, or die, and he has caught their future. He has told people, 'You are going to have cancer.' The experts are simply at a loss, because there are no symptoms at all, the man is perfectly healthy; there is no indication that he is going to have cancer."