“Autumn”
“Autumn meant the return to school, which he loved. It meant broad, dehydrated, and brittle oak leaves colored in raw sienna and cinnamon, that crunched like Frosted Flakes under his intentional footsteps. It meant raking dry, moist, and semi-rotten leaves into vegetative tumuli upon which he and the neighbor kids threw themselves in gleeful abandon. […]
Continue reading“What Love Is”
“But Love could not continue to exist under the false, hard light of mental man. On the polarities of the cross of the material-thing, she would be sacrificed. She could not truly be perceived as something other than himself. Only in that state of awareness wherein an oceanic unity prevailed, making all its own, could […]
Continue reading“Ecstatic Dancer”
“Keats’s sharpest veer from truth, as I saw it, came in his chosen path to what we both understood to be the Unity underlying the labradorescence, the variability of appearance based on vision angle, of dualistic “reality.” For him it came through ecstatic dance and drugs. In dance, he claimed, he could discover moments when […]
Continue reading“Moon Night”
“It was an almost fully moonlit sky, only a mouse nibble was missing from circular perfection. Phalanxes of bruised cloudlets, arrow-headed and multitudinous, sailed in silence across the soft shining disk. At times the moon would win out, as if Cosmic Intelligence or conscious clarity had prevailed in the heavens or in the soul of […]
Continue reading“Time and Space”
“Skylar walked to Fairer Elementary school with his brother. They only needed to go half a block down Mayfield to the stop sign, turn right, walk to Hampshire, the next street over, then cross it to the school. Space and time had for him, in those days, an elasticity related to his consciousness, a sort […]
Continue reading“Sacred Presence”
“The ambience around an enlightened being is such that anyone in it has their attention ineluctably broadened to the most expansive and generous outlook. It is as though the holy person merely points up to the sky and everyone around him stops concentrating on the thorns and pebbles over which they are trudging and gazes […]
Continue reading“Angelsea”
“‘Angelsea’ captured the essence of woman, as the cosmic love force, moving with an angel’s grace, with the universe as her home, as a divine mermaid, her life-breath the heat of love itself, the paramour of magic, the speller of the gods themselves, clad in rainbows and teardrops. Cat Stevens sang it with the earthy […]
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