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Don't Tell Me How To Whirl

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Moons and planets, don't tell me how to whirl. You have your dance, I have mine. If everyone would just stop trying to live in harmony we could stumble like drunken pilgrims, laughing and lifting each other up, every friend a fallen stranger. I'm not you, you're not me. Love laughs at non-duality. Its because we have nothing in common that we taste some erotic fiery juice pressed from wingless bodies clinging like magnets, bosom to bosom. Now can you hear the two-syllable name in your heartbeat? Shiva, Jesus, Allah, Yahweh. They all have the same Mother, this breath, fragrance of emptiness, who dallied with the Almighty, conceiving the world in the belly of darkness, God's untainted harlot. Here's a riddle from the kingdom of Loss: The Father is silence, the Spirit ululation. Wave and stillness give birth to the Child. You drip from the wounded anvil, the crushed crimson cluster, the murderous wringing fingers of the midwife. The Goddess who cannot remember whether ...

The Healing Art Of William Blake

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          I share this painting by William Blake because it gives life and overflows with peace. Gaze into it. Go beyond theology, beyond concepts, and sink into the radiant depths of divine Imagination. Use art for healing.  The painting is of the Death of St. Joseph, husband of Mary.  Jesus and the Holy Spirit (feminine emanation of Jesus) are ministering to this wise, strong, humble father.  As I study his long prophetic poems, like 'Milton' and 'Jerusalem,' I'm amazed by Blake's very personal relationship with Jesus, and the child-like innocence of his faith. He believed that Jesus IS the divine Imagination, whom we can meet and love in our own creative vision. "Imagination is the divine body of the Lord Jesus, blessed forever!" For Blake, Jesus was not a symbol of some higher consciousness, nor a mere social reformer, but a living Person who dwells at the subtlest level of feeling and perception in the heart. Je...

Equinox

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  The Sun bows to the Moon, trembling stars in a Spider's web, the Grail of Presence poised at my lips between out-breath and in. Golden harvest Wine spills over the rim into Darkness, the genuflection of time, when the Mother receives us through the fiery portal of a ruined Rose, her silent footsteps pale mushrooms of Midnight. Let Autumn come.   Art: The Divine Feminine, gouache on board by Tino Rodriguez