“Essentially the conscious circle is an intense zone of imaginal interchange in which advanced beings on both sides of the form/formless divide –i.e., some still in their physical bodies, others no longer so—join hands across the realms for a mutual exchange of wisdom, tempering, blessing, protection, and occasionally course correction. …
GLACIER 2020 – Day 2 – Transformers
Waking just at dawn on the first full day in Glacier National Park, provided the opportunity for doing my morning sit on a bench overlooking Lake McDonald. The cool weather warranted a light jacket, as I walked out to the bench – the big sky still faint with the night lights of the distant stars.…
GLACIER 2020 – Introductions
As I finished the closing pages of Cynthia Bourgeault’s most recent book, EYE OF THE HEART (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2020), I knew it would take much time and space to absorb and engage more deeply with the wonders and challenges presented in the honest and vulnerable hope she unscathingly shared in the book.…
Turning Mary
Where wholeness parts
a stream there flows
forward, backward
inward, outward
circling in circling
Is this She?
The steadfast single one
who dresses none
Stripping all to intimacy…
Crossing over in steady fire
Transmuting sinews of soul
bearing new faces
Touch-me-nots torn from a fist
Wade in waiting
Running in realms
emerging in supple sobriety
Nothing lost
The new unnamed
Pregnant chastity
Alluring poverty
Reckless charity
All is womb!…
A SINGLE POLITICAL STRIKE
From a divine spark, a hazelnut, an atom, a nothing ignited, mercy exchange, a reality of relating that constitutes poles that move in kenotic swing, a space of sparking that flows in and as us. Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, The Cloud of Unknowing, Jacob Boehme, Raimundo Panikkar, just to name a few mystical expressions of reality as deep relatedness that relies upon the third eye seeing in the duality, and the dual seeing from the nondual. …