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"theological" poems
born in illusory chains gnarled metal encrusted in my broken skin the copper colored dust of rusted steel infectiously envelopes shaving off antiquated layers of fundamentalist religion encrusted for generations unpeeled until raw an unsophisticated method unveiling ancient lodged glass shards colored with deceit brought before their court interrogated unfathomably skewered an eerie salem witch trial in modern times barbarically they shun me banished i wander aimlessly smelling the rotten decay of deceased community as splinters pierce my feet from the crooked wooden plank i walk alone now an unfathomable inner ache kindled a residue within igniting a wildfire from the darkest shadows uncontainably erupting i dance savagely naked in the orange moonlight and in every shaded edge lit my soul ablaze i am a nomad sheep ‘tho not one of their color no pasture to contain me no shepherd i can follow theological safety nets no longer there to catch me bohemian-like i plunge free falling plummeting stripped wide open magically fearlessness reverses gravitation floating untethered i soar amongst apricot tinged clouds my skin still wet from rebirth and rise with the flaming coral sun you cannot destroy me i twisted in your decrepit pencil sharpener and with fresh mettle cut through the chains that bound you can have my ego but you cannot have my soul dismantling domestication transcending limitation wildly untamed i fly ©2016janetaylor
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Jun 2, 2016
Jun 2, 2016 at 6:40 AM UTC
fly
I love you because the Earth turns round the sun because the North wind blows north sometimes because the Pope is Catholic and most Rabbis Jewish because winters flow into spring and the air clears after a storm because only my love for you despite the charms of gravity keeps me from falling off the Earth into another dimension I love you because it is the natural order of things I love you like the habit I picked up in college of sleeping through lectures or saying I’m sorry when I get stopped for speeding because I drink a glass of water in the morning and chain-smoke cigarettes all through the day because I take my coffee Black and my milk with chocolate because you keep my feet warm through my life a mess I love you because I don’t want it any other way I am helpless in m love for you It makes me so happy to hear you call my name I am amazed you can resist locking me in an echo chamber where your voice reverberates through the four walls sending me into spasmatic ecstasy I love you because it’s been so good for so long that if I didn’t love you I’d have to be born again and that is not a theological statement I am pitiful in my love for you The Dells tell me Love is so simple the thought though of you sends indescribably delicious multitudinous thrills throughout and through-in my body I love you because no two snowflakes are alike and it is possible if you stand tippy-toe to walk between the raindrops I love you because I am afraid of the dark and can’t sleep in the light because I rub my eyes when I wake up in the morning and find you there because you with all your magic powers were determined that I should love you because there was nothing for you but that I would love you I love you because you made me want to love you more than I love my privacy my freedom my commitments and responsibilities I love you 'cause I changed my life to love you because you saw me one friday afternoon and decided that I would love you I love you I love you I love you
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 10:21 AM UTC
RESIGNATION
I love you because the Earth turns round the sun because the North wind blows north sometimes because the Pope is Catholic and most Rabbis Jewish because winters flow into spring and the air clears after a storm because only my love for you despite the charms of gravity keeps me from falling off the Earth into another dimension I love you because it is the natural order of things I love you like the habit I picked up in college of sleeping through lectures or saying I’m sorry when I get stopped for speeding because I drink a glass of water in the morning and chain-smoke cigarettes all through the day because I take my coffee Black and my milk with chocolate because you keep my feet warm through my life a mess I love you because I don’t want it any other way I am helpless in m love for you It makes me so happy to hear you call my name I am amazed you can resist locking me in an echo chamber where your voice reverberates through the four walls sending me into spasmatic ecstasy I love you because it’s been so good for so long that if I didn’t love you I’d have to be born again and that is not a theological statement I am pitiful in my love for you The Dells tell me Love is so simple the thought though of you sends indescribably delicious multitudinous thrills throughout and through-in my body I love you because no two snowflakes are alike and it is possible if you stand tippy-toe to walk between the raindrops I love you because I am afraid of the dark and can’t sleep in the light because I rub my eyes when I wake up in the morning and find you there because you with all your magic powers were determined that I should love you because there was nothing for you but that I would love you I love you because you made me want to love you more than I love my privacy my freedom my commitments and responsibilities I love you 'cause I changed my life to love you because you saw me one friday afternoon and decided that I would love you I love you I love you I love you
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/                           beelzebub *(given employs the spider a posteriori and spiderweb a priori, and then back into a bicemeral reverse psyche-analogy - the id est contra the id erat - but there is no latin revival - given that the latin encoding has been translated into a.i. algorithms... forget putting the pandora into a box into a box into a box, into an etc. or what is a russian cultural artefact... forget it... a black fly would not take upon itself to make a dustbin, a ******* maggoty brothel, like a green bottle fly might... black flies have character, style... they're the ones that take to tango, with spider architecture, akin to the theological spider analogy about an ad infinitum a priori argument)*:    a bit like watching a black fly - "washing" itself - rubbing it's front limbs together, "attempting" to start a fire...       god, those awful green bottle hypers -   with maggot excesses - in a potential well expressed into practice - black flies?      i can entertain them - like i might entertain spiders that do not require aquariums - the non-exotica types... so i sometimes find myself rubbing my hands together, like a catholic amounting to an altruistic prayer symbolism... so kommen faust,   so kommen faust,                    so ist pseudo-faust - or rather:    england?              deutschland jr. america?               deutschland sr. and if that wasn't the case?     oh me, little old slavic                     babuшka... i still can't explain rubbing my hands together, like a black fly might...       keeping standards of where to take a maggoty dump's worth of procreation value... black flies? compared to the others? the priests of the whole spectrum...      i sometimes wish they were red,    so i could call them: the cardinals... alas...    not to be, god said otherwise... but i can fathom the priesthood, like i can fathom -    an aspiration of a sleeping samurai, devoid of the zodiac delusion,    encouraged to make chiromancy initiatives                         (readings) to alleviate, ******** monotheism.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 11:02 AM UTC
beelzebub (with revision)
/                           beelzebub *(given employs the spider a posteriori and spiderweb a priori, and then back into a bicemeral reverse psyche-analogy - the id est contra the id erat - but there is no latin revival - given that the latin encoding has been translated into a.i. algorithms... forget putting the pandora into a box into a box into a box, into an etc. or what is a russian cultural artefact... forget it... a black fly would not take upon itself to make a dustbin, a ******* maggoty brothel, like a green bottle fly might... black flies have character, style... they're the ones that take to tango, with spider architecture, akin to the theological spider analogy about an ad infinitum a priori argument)*:    a bit like watching a black fly - "washing" itself - rubbing it's front limbs together, "attempting" to start a fire...       god, those awful green bottle hypers -   with maggot excesses - in a potential well expressed into practice - black flies?      i can entertain them - like i might entertain spiders that do not require aquariums - the non-exotica types... so i sometimes find myself rubbing my hands together, like a catholic amounting to an altruistic prayer symbolism... so kommen faust,   so kommen faust,                    so ist pseudo-faust - or rather:    england?              deutschland jr. america?               deutschland sr. and if that wasn't the case?     oh me, little old slavic                     babuшka... i still can't explain rubbing my hands together, like a black fly might...       keeping standards of where to take a maggoty dump's worth of procreation value... black flies? compared to the others? the priests of the whole spectrum...      i sometimes wish they were red,    so i could call them: the cardinals... alas...    not to be, god said otherwise... but i can fathom the priesthood, like i can fathom -    an aspiration of a sleeping samurai, devoid of the zodiac delusion,    encouraged to make chiromancy initiatives                         (readings) to alleviate, ******** monotheism.
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Sa kasaysayan ng aking bukas na pagkamulat Hindi lamang kaalamang pang-ibabaw kundi pati panloob nami’y binulabog Hindi lang hinayaang sumakay sa bangka kundi pati pagsagwa’y itinuro Binuksan ang inaakalang hindi na mahihigilap o matatagpuan man Pero higit pang liwanag ang iyong ipinadama, at ipinahamon sa dilim na nagtuturo Binusog mo kami ng kasaganaang higit pa sa inaasahan Sa yakap ng pag-irog, pang-unawa at pagtuklas Pamilyang naging karamay sa bawat hirap, gutom at pagsubok Tunay na tahanan ng mga propeta, tunay na naging huwaran sa aming kalagitnaan Hinubog mo kami ng may pagkakakilanlan buhat sa aming pagkakaiba’t iba Kinalampag mo hindi lamang ang aming tenga, bibig at mata Ngunit buong pandama nami’y iyong ginigising Pati ang kaibuturan ng aming mga laman at buto Inilubog kami sa karanasang nakakapagpabago Upang konkretong sumaksi na may tapang at dangal At dahil dito, sama-sama’t magkaagapay tayong kumikilos Nakikiisa sa tanging layon ng Kristong sinusundan Ang bukal ng kasaganaan at kahulugan ng buhay Patuloy na bibigyang kulay at padadaluyin sa ugat’ dugo ng pakikibaka Hayagang ipalalaganap at isasabog sa buong sangnilikha Na may pagkilala sa Diyos na Buhay, ng Kasaysayan, Kaayusan, at Pag-ibig Pagpupugay sa Tahanan ng mga Propeta, Union Theological Seminary! Sa Sampung Dekada at Labindalwang Taon “Masaganang Nananahan, Buong Diwang Sumasaksi, Bukas-palad na Naglilingkod!”
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Nov 21, 2019
Nov 21, 2019 at 4:16 AM UTC
Masaganang Nananahan, Buong Diwang Sumasaksi, Bukas-palad na Naglilingkod (Dweeling Abundantly, Witnessing Boldly, Serving Generously)
Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. Poem # 031. Philip : 20/10/20 Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. Of the pure unadulterated unconditional love We men and women that inhabit the earth In the constant search for a secure foothold And wishing to be all things to all men around Men and Women and genders betwixt the two Being now away that we have a brotherhood Loved by a community of lifelong friends Earth Angels and guides which hold the skills Skills which are perfected and so peculiar Standing alone in their particular peculiarities Excellent and everlasting good friends of mine Diligently looking after their own fellowship. Boys and girls coming out to play in the world Young and old rich and poor sick and healthy Together in a loving unconditional relationship Having no blood ties save for holding the spirit Especially the wondrous God spirit of passion From whatever theological following you hold. Every good turn you do unto others is returned Loving your neighbor as thyself is a starter. Loving your father and mother well deserved Or your brother or sister , cousin or kin. With blood relatives it’s seen as a given. So be it for the population of the World. Having established that relationship you’re OK In that there is nobody to hate anymore People outside the fellowship may gossip Or continually sandbagged a reputation From now on let us develop this “Fellowship “ Making time to consider the other fellow. Accounting for a balanced life of compassion Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 at 3:52 AM UTC
Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man .
Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. Poem # 031. Philip : 20/10/20 Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. Of the pure unadulterated unconditional love We men and women that inhabit the earth In the constant search for a secure foothold And wishing to be all things to all men around Men and Women and genders betwixt the two Being now away that we have a brotherhood Loved by a community of lifelong friends Earth Angels and guides which hold the skills Skills which are perfected and so peculiar Standing alone in their particular peculiarities Excellent and everlasting good friends of mine Diligently looking after their own fellowship. Boys and girls coming out to play in the world Young and old rich and poor sick and healthy Together in a loving unconditional relationship Having no blood ties save for holding the spirit Especially the wondrous God spirit of passion From whatever theological following you hold. Every good turn you do unto others is returned Loving your neighbor as thyself is a starter. Loving your father and mother well deserved Or your brother or sister , cousin or kin. With blood relatives it’s seen as a given. So be it for the population of the World. Having established that relationship you’re OK In that there is nobody to hate anymore People outside the fellowship may gossip Or continually sandbagged a reputation From now on let us develop this “Fellowship “ Making time to consider the other fellow. Accounting for a balanced life of compassion Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The End Times Repent, the zealot dinner guest, invited For purposes of theological correctness, chides. Repent, and sin no more, he advises, for the end is near. But isn't that like asking a carnivore to turn vegan Moments before the serving of a pampered calf's liver I ask he takes special care in the fall of a sparrow The zealot replies, eyeing me as I set My peas to one side with my fork. Yes, but it was just that one, I retort. His first.
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 3:01 AM UTC
The End Times
Ah you hate to see another tired man / Lay down his hand / Like he was giving up the holy game of poker” Leonard Cohen <> “Will I remain within God's house at night as shadows drift through dimming my light?” written by Weeping Willow, gifted to me, by Edmund Black ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I, ***instant understanding, perhaps in my experiential possess, some answerings perhaps...product of late night, many, many theological arguments over poker games, with coarse men, tough women, and ethically-challenged Gods, all faithful regular attendees With a little bit o’ luck from an occasional guardian angel, even I possess an occasional winning hand. now we all commence with a passionate uttered blessing, for the good beer and salty pretzels, giving thanks for having reached this act-exact moment of being, here and now, in God’s house at night, plus a holy add-on variation, a swear-to-god (we all snicker) promise solemn, no cheating, no absolutely divine peeking/spying in soulful futures, no fun in that, sanctified & sealed with hearty amens and ****** noises offered for emphasis. hear you scratching you head, wondering what all this to do with a whispered prayer of soulful, on-shore drilling deep, product of a drill bit cutting the black quietude of interstellar voids internal, where there is no censorship, lying an impossibility, and the only questions are super hard, so some never return with an answer truthful so, I remain in God’s House, playing poker, with deities who jealous guard their moments as human facsimiles...cherishing humans who guard with care, an ability to see that they and gods differ little, when making honest truth a shared primacy in the intimacy of an overnight stay in God’s house at night, all our coming-led light dims, when my/their need is greatest***! (written sometime this year, Jan. 2021, Manhattan) ~~~~
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Apr 13, 2021
Apr 13, 2021 at 6:36 PM UTC
Playing poker with the Gods by the dimming light
Ah you hate to see another tired man / Lay down his hand / Like he was giving up the holy game of poker” Leonard Cohen <> “Will I remain within God's house at night as shadows drift through dimming my light?” written by Weeping Willow, gifted to me, by Edmund Black ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I, ***instant understanding, perhaps in my experiential possess, some answerings perhaps...product of late night, many, many theological arguments over poker games, with coarse men, tough women, and ethically-challenged Gods, all faithful regular attendees With a little bit o’ luck from an occasional guardian angel, even I possess an occasional winning hand. now we all commence with a passionate uttered blessing, for the good beer and salty pretzels, giving thanks for having reached this act-exact moment of being, here and now, in God’s house at night, plus a holy add-on variation, a swear-to-god (we all snicker) promise solemn, no cheating, no absolutely divine peeking/spying in soulful futures, no fun in that, sanctified & sealed with hearty amens and ****** noises offered for emphasis. hear you scratching you head, wondering what all this to do with a whispered prayer of soulful, on-shore drilling deep, product of a drill bit cutting the black quietude of interstellar voids internal, where there is no censorship, lying an impossibility, and the only questions are super hard, so some never return with an answer truthful so, I remain in God’s House, playing poker, with deities who jealous guard their moments as human facsimiles...cherishing humans who guard with care, an ability to see that they and gods differ little, when making honest truth a shared primacy in the intimacy of an overnight stay in God’s house at night, all our coming-led light dims, when my/their need is greatest***! (written sometime this year, Jan. 2021, Manhattan) ~~~~
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The Creator The original Aboriginal Indigenous   Australians In their Dreaming Uncreated Baiame The Sky Father Creator of everything But who created This creator God Mythological Theological Like everyones Too similar and Geographically Universally spread To be explained by One Big Bang But still I ask Who created The uncreated Creator
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Sep 24, 2013
Sep 24, 2013 at 4:09 AM UTC
The Uncreated
Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. Poem # 031. Philip : 20/10/20 Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. Of the pure unadulterated unconditional love We men and women that inhabit the earth In the constant search for a secure foothold And wishing to be all things to all men around Men and Women and genders betwixt the two Being now away that we have a brotherhood Loved by a community of lifelong friends Earth Angels and guides which hold the skills Skills which are perfected and so peculiar Standing alone in their particular peculiarities Excellent and everlasting good friends of mine Diligently looking after their own fellowship. Boys and girls coming out to play in the world Young and old rich and poor sick and healthy Together in a loving unconditional relationship Having no blood ties save for holding the spirit Especially the wondrous God spirit of passion From whatever theological following you hold. Every good turn you do unto others is returned Loving your neighbor as thyself is a starter. Loving your father and mother well deserved Or your brother or sister , cousin or kin. With blood relatives it’s seen as a given. So be it for the population of the World. Having established that relationship you’re OK In that there is nobody to hate anymore People outside the fellowship may gossip Or continually sandbagged a reputation From now on let us develop this “Fellowship “ Making time to consider the other fellow. Accounting for a balanced life of compassion Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Nov 16, 2018
Nov 16, 2018 at 5:35 AM UTC
Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man
Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. Poem # 031. Philip : 20/10/20 Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. Of the pure unadulterated unconditional love We men and women that inhabit the earth In the constant search for a secure foothold And wishing to be all things to all men around Men and Women and genders betwixt the two Being now away that we have a brotherhood Loved by a community of lifelong friends Earth Angels and guides which hold the skills Skills which are perfected and so peculiar Standing alone in their particular peculiarities Excellent and everlasting good friends of mine Diligently looking after their own fellowship. Boys and girls coming out to play in the world Young and old rich and poor sick and healthy Together in a loving unconditional relationship Having no blood ties save for holding the spirit Especially the wondrous God spirit of passion From whatever theological following you hold. Every good turn you do unto others is returned Loving your neighbor as thyself is a starter. Loving your father and mother well deserved Or your brother or sister , cousin or kin. With blood relatives it’s seen as a given. So be it for the population of the World. Having established that relationship you’re OK In that there is nobody to hate anymore People outside the fellowship may gossip Or continually sandbagged a reputation From now on let us develop this “Fellowship “ Making time to consider the other fellow. Accounting for a balanced life of compassion Now I am blessed by the fellowship of man. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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since i turned into a nocturnal creature i’ve changed a bit, i started the theological arithmetic: (right hand) thumb, index, middle finger(s) - january february march, ring, pinky & pinky (left hand) - april may june, ring middle index (left hand) july august september - thumb (left hand) thumb and index (right hand)... of yes, intelligent design... now make a hole using your thumb & index finger, then ensure your thumb goes in & out from that whole... like god, say: oh **** i forgot the piston! guess what’s the slang term for a russian in polish? kacap. guess what’s the slang term for a german in polish? szwab (shvab) / i know, i too wish it was sax...aphone. guess what’s the slang term for a dwarf in polish? karakan. but i said, there are really two branches from the 20th century growing into the 21st century, there’s the proustian branch that’s a cul de sac... and there’s the joycean branch, that leads to ezra pound et al., finnegans wake (which i have read) i can a 50p with an invention of a terminology: uncoded phoneticism, i.e. alpha bravo charlie delta echo, only because: prirates’ aye, eye and lie and high sounded pretty much the same even though they were spelled differently. uncoded phoneticism means you use a coding of language from thought / silence in a way that elevates it from the standard usage, from novelty interests of a righteous narrator crafting new characters... of course your writing will appear chaotic... but in reality it will not be... trust me... i simulated paranoid schizophrenia for seven years... fooled three psychiatrists and regained a chance to provoke. nicholas ii is smiling at me from a banknote i own, and i have a kopek’s worth of currency from dostoyevsky’s times.
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 7:52 PM UTC
a russian in polish slang? kacap
since i turned into a nocturnal creature i’ve changed a bit, i started the theological arithmetic: (right hand) thumb, index, middle finger(s) - january february march, ring, pinky & pinky (left hand) - april may june, ring middle index (left hand) july august september - thumb (left hand) thumb and index (right hand)... of yes, intelligent design... now make a hole using your thumb & index finger, then ensure your thumb goes in & out from that whole... like god, say: oh **** i forgot the piston! guess what’s the slang term for a russian in polish? kacap. guess what’s the slang term for a german in polish? szwab (shvab) / i know, i too wish it was sax...aphone. guess what’s the slang term for a dwarf in polish? karakan. but i said, there are really two branches from the 20th century growing into the 21st century, there’s the proustian branch that’s a cul de sac... and there’s the joycean branch, that leads to ezra pound et al., finnegans wake (which i have read) i can a 50p with an invention of a terminology: uncoded phoneticism, i.e. alpha bravo charlie delta echo, only because: prirates’ aye, eye and lie and high sounded pretty much the same even though they were spelled differently. uncoded phoneticism means you use a coding of language from thought / silence in a way that elevates it from the standard usage, from novelty interests of a righteous narrator crafting new characters... of course your writing will appear chaotic... but in reality it will not be... trust me... i simulated paranoid schizophrenia for seven years... fooled three psychiatrists and regained a chance to provoke. nicholas ii is smiling at me from a banknote i own, and i have a kopek’s worth of currency from dostoyevsky’s times.
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# I. Antiquity and the Architecture of Will In the shadowed corridors of antiquity, where gods were built with teeth and altars stood not for reverence but for control, the Temple of Bel rose as a monument to ********** disguised as divinity. Bel—an assimilated god from earlier Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian traditions—was not the god who walked with man. He was the god who towered above him, demanded sacrifice, and soaked prayer in the blood of repetition. From the earliest Mesopotamian systems, the act of worship was not about communion, but compulsion. To invoke was to command. To chant was to erode the will of another until it cracked under rhythmic insistence. Whether by priest or supplicant, the act was the same: submission by saturation. --- II. The Weaponization of Sound: Chant and the Rhythmic Spell Repetition was not mere ceremony. It was siege. Chants—carefully crafted phonetic loops—were not benign rituals. They were linguistic architecture meant to house spirits, to summon presence not for beauty, but for enforcement. These were incantations with purpose: to bend the will of another through the veil of mysticism. In this light, poetry—at its inception—was not always art. It was often sorcery. The earliest poems were enchantments. They masked seduction as devotion. They twisted longing into ******* They were rhythmic netting, carefully knotted to catch the weak of will and the fractured of self. --- III. The Modern Construct: Echoes of an Ancient Spell Those who hide behind the aesthetic of antiquity today still wear the same rings of power. When a poet writes to control—when they loop trauma like a mantra, repeat seduction as if it were depth, mimic spiritual language to inspire compliance—they are no different than the priests of Bel. They are modern invokers, cloaked in digital incense, spreading spells under the guise of free expression. Their readers are not disciples. They are targets. The “construct” is not a movement. It is a spell. A liturgy without light. A series of hollow echoes designed to flatten identity, rewrite pain into performance, and reward the wound that sells. --- IV. The Severance of Echo: Where the Rhythm Ends If you must chant, let it be to awaken, not ****** If you must repeat, let it be to remember truth, not reshape it. The false liturgies of old were not killed. They were digitized. We will not respond with louder poems. We will not echo their echo. We will respond with silence where needed, and light where earned. We will write not to possess, but to set free. We will bring antiquity not as ornament, but as witness. Because we remember the Temple of Bel. And we are here to break it. Let those who recite in darkness meet the rhythm of truth. #
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Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM UTC
Altars of Control: A Theological and Psychological Dissection of the Spirits of Bel and the Legacy of Coercive Invocation
# I. Antiquity and the Architecture of Will In the shadowed corridors of antiquity, where gods were built with teeth and altars stood not for reverence but for control, the Temple of Bel rose as a monument to ********** disguised as divinity. Bel—an assimilated god from earlier Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian traditions—was not the god who walked with man. He was the god who towered above him, demanded sacrifice, and soaked prayer in the blood of repetition. From the earliest Mesopotamian systems, the act of worship was not about communion, but compulsion. To invoke was to command. To chant was to erode the will of another until it cracked under rhythmic insistence. Whether by priest or supplicant, the act was the same: submission by saturation. --- II. The Weaponization of Sound: Chant and the Rhythmic Spell Repetition was not mere ceremony. It was siege. Chants—carefully crafted phonetic loops—were not benign rituals. They were linguistic architecture meant to house spirits, to summon presence not for beauty, but for enforcement. These were incantations with purpose: to bend the will of another through the veil of mysticism. In this light, poetry—at its inception—was not always art. It was often sorcery. The earliest poems were enchantments. They masked seduction as devotion. They twisted longing into ******* They were rhythmic netting, carefully knotted to catch the weak of will and the fractured of self. --- III. The Modern Construct: Echoes of an Ancient Spell Those who hide behind the aesthetic of antiquity today still wear the same rings of power. When a poet writes to control—when they loop trauma like a mantra, repeat seduction as if it were depth, mimic spiritual language to inspire compliance—they are no different than the priests of Bel. They are modern invokers, cloaked in digital incense, spreading spells under the guise of free expression. Their readers are not disciples. They are targets. The “construct” is not a movement. It is a spell. A liturgy without light. A series of hollow echoes designed to flatten identity, rewrite pain into performance, and reward the wound that sells. --- IV. The Severance of Echo: Where the Rhythm Ends If you must chant, let it be to awaken, not ****** If you must repeat, let it be to remember truth, not reshape it. The false liturgies of old were not killed. They were digitized. We will not respond with louder poems. We will not echo their echo. We will respond with silence where needed, and light where earned. We will write not to possess, but to set free. We will bring antiquity not as ornament, but as witness. Because we remember the Temple of Bel. And we are here to break it. Let those who recite in darkness meet the rhythm of truth. #
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*"Being an introvert in an extroverted world can absolutely be difficult." Came across this on some blog. Think it's more complex to be a mediocre, an extro-intro or an intro-extro... you can't go all out... you won't remain all in... you're doomed to be in the twixt. Yet the middle is dangerous... The middle of the Ocean is the deepest, the middle of the jungle is the riskiest... the middle of the garden of Eden doomed an entire race... for its existence... no driver would drive freely in the middle lane, most run to the climbing lane soon as they see it. Some say the Earth is trapped between Heaven and Hell... maybe we're a compound of Paradisal elements and the rumbles of the Hades... the pawns in the Chess between God and Satan, the Jobs in the bible of now... I'm a Junk of all trades & I'm afraid being in between trades makes me a master of non... I know too much and yet I know nothing... I am an extro-intro... I go out only until the plank starts to swing the other way... I go out until I sense the cold and quickly run back to the lukewarm betwixt for the hot is as fatal to my kind as the cold. Am not an Author and neither am I a poet... Am a "Poether'' or an "Auoet", Am not philosophical neither am I Theological...am "philological" or "Theolophical". I'm trapped at the equator... I'm neither an Eskimo nor an "Antactico"... Not Ugandan nor Kenyan... Tanzania can't claim me but there's yet to be a concrete East African... maybe I'm African. My point is some people think the middle is safe... but I believe different. it's my opinion if you want to be a piglet be one, if you want to be a puppy be a puppy for its fatal to be a Pipet or puppet... both are instruments... even their use is similar. My tragedy is am in between, am a mediocre, a pother, an opssimist, a philothopher, a ctranger or say "Ukantan". I'm just there... Don't be caught in my place... find a place to belong... no matter how dangerous and risky... always choose where you lie...always strive hard to find a prowess... Go past the lines for History remembers those who are unique... whether for the worst or the best. Be the last if you can't be the first...* **Everyone will remember Mabirizi for he knew how to be the last... And sadly everyone will remember Museveni for he's good at keeping his place. Who will remember the one in between. Who will remember Besigye? Who will remember the servant boy that cautioned Achilles against fighting the Thessalonian? Who will remember me?**
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Jul 17, 2016
Jul 17, 2016 at 11:42 AM UTC
Who Will Remember?
*"Being an introvert in an extroverted world can absolutely be difficult." Came across this on some blog. Think it's more complex to be a mediocre, an extro-intro or an intro-extro... you can't go all out... you won't remain all in... you're doomed to be in the twixt. Yet the middle is dangerous... The middle of the Ocean is the deepest, the middle of the jungle is the riskiest... the middle of the garden of Eden doomed an entire race... for its existence... no driver would drive freely in the middle lane, most run to the climbing lane soon as they see it. Some say the Earth is trapped between Heaven and Hell... maybe we're a compound of Paradisal elements and the rumbles of the Hades... the pawns in the Chess between God and Satan, the Jobs in the bible of now... I'm a Junk of all trades & I'm afraid being in between trades makes me a master of non... I know too much and yet I know nothing... I am an extro-intro... I go out only until the plank starts to swing the other way... I go out until I sense the cold and quickly run back to the lukewarm betwixt for the hot is as fatal to my kind as the cold. Am not an Author and neither am I a poet... Am a "Poether'' or an "Auoet", Am not philosophical neither am I Theological...am "philological" or "Theolophical". I'm trapped at the equator... I'm neither an Eskimo nor an "Antactico"... Not Ugandan nor Kenyan... Tanzania can't claim me but there's yet to be a concrete East African... maybe I'm African. My point is some people think the middle is safe... but I believe different. it's my opinion if you want to be a piglet be one, if you want to be a puppy be a puppy for its fatal to be a Pipet or puppet... both are instruments... even their use is similar. My tragedy is am in between, am a mediocre, a pother, an opssimist, a philothopher, a ctranger or say "Ukantan". I'm just there... Don't be caught in my place... find a place to belong... no matter how dangerous and risky... always choose where you lie...always strive hard to find a prowess... Go past the lines for History remembers those who are unique... whether for the worst or the best. Be the last if you can't be the first...* **Everyone will remember Mabirizi for he knew how to be the last... And sadly everyone will remember Museveni for he's good at keeping his place. Who will remember the one in between. Who will remember Besigye? Who will remember the servant boy that cautioned Achilles against fighting the Thessalonian? Who will remember me?**
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I spent some time At the nature park Was going to read But too lazy I stopped by To replace my Micro USB cable I had misplaced I am wearing workout shorts I bought from Marshall's yesterday I bought some extra socks And underwear yesterday I like these workout shorts I like being alone now I just want to go On to my Christian chat And read my Bible It's fun to listen To theological debates In the Bible Study chat I am a boring person I like it that way My therapist left me Oh well I just want to be alone With my Bible I enjoy hitting golf ***** At the driving range America Has a debt It can never pay back
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Jul 4, 2015
Jul 4, 2015 at 7:15 PM UTC
What I Did Today, And What I Often Do
open pathways to a glaring pathos the bright light of idealism is why the optimist is stronger than the pessimist retreating into the no-eye-strain of a dark, frightening cave; what was beyond the light? the pessimist says the fear of the known is safer while the optimist treads a sidewalk-highway-backstreet of light ouch- ouch- ouuuuch, his eyes! keep going. pushing through the grand theological cosmological philosophy zen the optimist marches past the foot of the rancid infection what self-inflicted pain for the sake of surrendering all responsibility; the reason there are governments countries orthodoxies is because of a grand laziness which clasps the wrists of the weary fearful of their freedom as it is an unknown grand cosmic sun-star; "stare any longer and I'll go blind; march towards it and I will disintegrate." "Are you sure?" asks the optimist "No, but I won't take such a naive risk. I have been around long enough to cease trusting anything, especially myself." "Then you are eternally ****** I seek my own grace." there is a silence as the pessimist rounds to sigh and the optimist wheels himself towards the stars.
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 2:17 PM UTC
Hellven
If light is the fastest thing in the universe, why is darkness already there when light arrives? After watching Harry and Megan Sussex grub for ever more cash and attention, I’ve decided that they should start a OnlyFans site. We’re going to a booze-free dance party. “You don’t have to drink to have fun.” I assure myself, in the bathroom mirror, but somehow the event sounds like a high school dance. I’ve been reading the Internet - was it really a giant squid that sank the Titanic? ... Panpsychism Is a scientific theory postulating that consciousness is part of the fabric of the Universe. On the theological level, why would God (or nature) create the bitter taste of espresso and vivid, azure skies slashed with rainbow sunsets if stimulating consciousness weren’t important? “Colors, tastes and smells are no more than names,” Galileo declared 400 years ago. “(as perceptions) they reside only in consciousness.” Does life exist, as sensors, to experience stimuli for the galactic consciousness?
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Oct 9, 2023
Oct 9, 2023 at 10:26 PM UTC
tidbits
Adam and Eve lived here before she went vegan and chomped the wrong apple dropping them both into deep schtuck with a difficult learning curve before they got up to speed as our progenitors and began begetting. With only two to start with there had to have been a lot of ****** with begats here and begats there and still, the gene pool stayed clean without fits and starts so there must have been a Divine Profiler in the sky keeping the books straight with our future at stake. But there is a question? In the beginning there were only two so was Adam the midwife and if so where did he learn the skills the whole midwifery bit the gentle initial slap to get the first wail ever on this earth Interesting theological and philosophical thoughts not even thinking about baby clothes and the like I suppose breastfeeding was a must before Baby Formula Deep thoughts for Easter
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Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 5:23 PM UTC
Paradise ( Foreclosed) A poem for Easter
Breath counts our days and nights like God. Breath during twilight laid into blissful sleep, breath of newborn welcoming the world, breath during considerations on storm of frozen years, breath of mortally terrified man thrown into abyss, breath of memories creeping into oblivion, breath during ecstatic experience of union with beloved, breath of bard in sanctuary, breath of soul while symphony plays in it, breath during interference of God's message, breath during observation of visible signs of what is performed in soul, breath while you are overwhelmed by primal instincts, breath during kiss affecting the sphere of sensuous , breath during awakening of images of love sick from excess of words, breath during the intervention of God in life, breath on the path of recognition of the idea of ​​good, breath during  maturity examination in the field of theological virtues, breath during reward of unrighteousness, breath during arrangement of feelings. Breath releases emotions without need of Katarsis. Breath strengthens internal sense of security. Breath makes soul your guide and teacher. Breath makes possible connection of mind,body and soul, deliverance from the darkness of ignorance, release from bonds of illusion, separation of the spiritual needs and ****** needs, to experience spectrum of human feelings, to be a man distinguishing good from evil, to celebrate life in all its glory, to get rid of belifes limitating mind, to enter into spiritual and physical world, to study cosmological issues, to hipothesize and recive answers,   to experience fulfillment in the field of love,   to overcome chaotic desires of our soul,   to use the knowledge gained before entering the body, to become an expression of divinity, to imitate order of nature, to dry out unusual flowers under a pile of books, to experience God's Providence, to prove that justice is worthy of having, to exploit  days and nights in conformity with destiny, to avoid venial sins in the future, to exceed usual consiousness, to dance in lake with stony bottom, to think about something we never experienced, to avoid the loss of sensitivity of the moral conscience, to cry in defense of the poor, to express  respect and love for fellow beings. Breath is the hourglass measuring time grain by grain.
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Sep 23, 2014
Sep 23, 2014 at 1:36 PM UTC
Breath counts our days and nights like God
Breath counts our days and nights like God. Breath during twilight laid into blissful sleep, breath of newborn welcoming the world, breath during considerations on storm of frozen years, breath of mortally terrified man thrown into abyss, breath of memories creeping into oblivion, breath during ecstatic experience of union with beloved, breath of bard in sanctuary, breath of soul while symphony plays in it, breath during interference of God's message, breath during observation of visible signs of what is performed in soul, breath while you are overwhelmed by primal instincts, breath during kiss affecting the sphere of sensuous , breath during awakening of images of love sick from excess of words, breath during the intervention of God in life, breath on the path of recognition of the idea of ​​good, breath during  maturity examination in the field of theological virtues, breath during reward of unrighteousness, breath during arrangement of feelings. Breath releases emotions without need of Katarsis. Breath strengthens internal sense of security. Breath makes soul your guide and teacher. Breath makes possible connection of mind,body and soul, deliverance from the darkness of ignorance, release from bonds of illusion, separation of the spiritual needs and ****** needs, to experience spectrum of human feelings, to be a man distinguishing good from evil, to celebrate life in all its glory, to get rid of belifes limitating mind, to enter into spiritual and physical world, to study cosmological issues, to hipothesize and recive answers,   to experience fulfillment in the field of love,   to overcome chaotic desires of our soul,   to use the knowledge gained before entering the body, to become an expression of divinity, to imitate order of nature, to dry out unusual flowers under a pile of books, to experience God's Providence, to prove that justice is worthy of having, to exploit  days and nights in conformity with destiny, to avoid venial sins in the future, to exceed usual consiousness, to dance in lake with stony bottom, to think about something we never experienced, to avoid the loss of sensitivity of the moral conscience, to cry in defense of the poor, to express  respect and love for fellow beings. Breath is the hourglass measuring time grain by grain.
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His name was Father Harrigan. He was so poor at the seminary . . . Ireland’s flagship seminary, Erin’s last remaining seminary, Maynooth College near Dublin, Once a network of theological schools Exporting priests worldwide, Struggling today to Produce enough priests for The shrinking next generation of Irish Catholics . . . He was so poor upon Sacrament of Holy Orders, He accepted a first post to Argentina, Where he met a young Pope Francis, “The Talking Mule,” as he was Mocked back then, back in The student lounge, Universidad del Salvador, A Jesuit institution, Buenos Aires. But I digress. Father Harrigan made friends easily. It wasn’t too long before He had his choice assignment— His coveted next assignment-- North America--specifically the Boston Archdiocese, For any ***** Irishman A land of carnal opportunity & Never Ending Corn Beef & Cabbage Bowl®, ($Ka-Ching! Finally making poetry pay!$) The Olive Garden. Southie was where it all got Started in 5th Grade, Elementary, Our Lady of Tipperary, the Spring talent show. His mother convinced him to sing One of George M. Cohan’s tune, i.e. A tune by His Eminence “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” A song called "Harrigan." **“H, A, Double-R-I, G-A-N spells Harrigan, Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me . . .”** What better way to ingratiate Himself to his parish, Or his parish priest to his family? Father Seamus Harrigan: Built like John Candy, RIP. A fat Irish slob, A captive of his appetites, Including one for boys. That guy should be given Kennedy Center Honors, for Giving the gift that keeps on giving: That first exquisite ******* Which in subsequent years Defined my taste for women Capable of perfection.
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May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 9:26 PM UTC
“Fat Irish Priest”
His name was Father Harrigan. He was so poor at the seminary . . . Ireland’s flagship seminary, Erin’s last remaining seminary, Maynooth College near Dublin, Once a network of theological schools Exporting priests worldwide, Struggling today to Produce enough priests for The shrinking next generation of Irish Catholics . . . He was so poor upon Sacrament of Holy Orders, He accepted a first post to Argentina, Where he met a young Pope Francis, “The Talking Mule,” as he was Mocked back then, back in The student lounge, Universidad del Salvador, A Jesuit institution, Buenos Aires. But I digress. Father Harrigan made friends easily. It wasn’t too long before He had his choice assignment— His coveted next assignment-- North America--specifically the Boston Archdiocese, For any ***** Irishman A land of carnal opportunity & Never Ending Corn Beef & Cabbage Bowl®, ($Ka-Ching! Finally making poetry pay!$) The Olive Garden. Southie was where it all got Started in 5th Grade, Elementary, Our Lady of Tipperary, the Spring talent show. His mother convinced him to sing One of George M. Cohan’s tune, i.e. A tune by His Eminence “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” A song called "Harrigan." **“H, A, Double-R-I, G-A-N spells Harrigan, Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me . . .”** What better way to ingratiate Himself to his parish, Or his parish priest to his family? Father Seamus Harrigan: Built like John Candy, RIP. A fat Irish slob, A captive of his appetites, Including one for boys. That guy should be given Kennedy Center Honors, for Giving the gift that keeps on giving: That first exquisite ******* Which in subsequent years Defined my taste for women Capable of perfection.
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take money out of the equation, and sack all the waiters and return to tribalism, the former statement of non-intellectual socialism, the sort of inherent: in us there is a togetherness, no more service from strangers in the hierarchy of enriching a piece of metal or a wavy rectangle of paper with “necessary” symbolism of authority of the status quo... but that’s not going to happen... the pickpocket picts are no more... the normalising normans glared at the hastings pinnacle and integrated with the saxon women... the saracens became surnames in poland... actually that last one is very true... a branch of my family has the surname saracen. so i’m reading this article and i’m hardly debasing myself, it’s not that i’m referring to sartre’s negation of certain things whether animate and essential or inanimate and existential... in that formula: i deny therefore i am... because i can’t deny my existence... and 2000 years down the line i’ll be pitchfork argument in an atheist’s mouth anyway (nothing is certain in the realm of cognition, hence the cartesian invocation of doubt), it's not like i'm referring to inappropriate pronoun usage... so **** a doodle do... twang the strings on the mandolin... i’m referring to this classical reference of the shy literary figure unable to spark conversation with strangers... god, i really love strangers, and talking to them! why? there is no personal history, there’s no past, there are no reference points... it’s just the moment and nothing else, the perfect anonymity project... not the matrix philosophy (easily invoked because it has a flimsy plot-line and loads of images... just what the doctor ordered for the english speaking masses with a very naked orthography - i.e. if it’s on the internet it’s not “real life...” as is this computer i’m using it’s not even here!) of using the deep web to join the rats and etc.; i love talking to strangers, i can forget myself and enter the realm of discretion about how within randomisation of eggshell, yoke and cockroach there’s also the randomisation of the interactants to balance out the need for a theological unit, god... it’s great... it’s like... it’s like... life. defining the genre of biography proper? never backtrack... always sidetrack... i can’t be bothered living a life with cocktail parties and romps and romantic comedies to look forward to once all the animalism becomes domesticated and a gym-session complaints column in a newspaper.
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 7:54 PM UTC
panda suspence
take money out of the equation, and sack all the waiters and return to tribalism, the former statement of non-intellectual socialism, the sort of inherent: in us there is a togetherness, no more service from strangers in the hierarchy of enriching a piece of metal or a wavy rectangle of paper with “necessary” symbolism of authority of the status quo... but that’s not going to happen... the pickpocket picts are no more... the normalising normans glared at the hastings pinnacle and integrated with the saxon women... the saracens became surnames in poland... actually that last one is very true... a branch of my family has the surname saracen. so i’m reading this article and i’m hardly debasing myself, it’s not that i’m referring to sartre’s negation of certain things whether animate and essential or inanimate and existential... in that formula: i deny therefore i am... because i can’t deny my existence... and 2000 years down the line i’ll be pitchfork argument in an atheist’s mouth anyway (nothing is certain in the realm of cognition, hence the cartesian invocation of doubt), it's not like i'm referring to inappropriate pronoun usage... so **** a doodle do... twang the strings on the mandolin... i’m referring to this classical reference of the shy literary figure unable to spark conversation with strangers... god, i really love strangers, and talking to them! why? there is no personal history, there’s no past, there are no reference points... it’s just the moment and nothing else, the perfect anonymity project... not the matrix philosophy (easily invoked because it has a flimsy plot-line and loads of images... just what the doctor ordered for the english speaking masses with a very naked orthography - i.e. if it’s on the internet it’s not “real life...” as is this computer i’m using it’s not even here!) of using the deep web to join the rats and etc.; i love talking to strangers, i can forget myself and enter the realm of discretion about how within randomisation of eggshell, yoke and cockroach there’s also the randomisation of the interactants to balance out the need for a theological unit, god... it’s great... it’s like... it’s like... life. defining the genre of biography proper? never backtrack... always sidetrack... i can’t be bothered living a life with cocktail parties and romps and romantic comedies to look forward to once all the animalism becomes domesticated and a gym-session complaints column in a newspaper.
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I want to be rich I want to have power I want my every thought To blossom and flower Into a new religion Like a room full of roses. I want to become A brand new Moses. I would write such tales Of exciting breadth and scope That any non-believer would Have to be a brainless dope. I would invent angels, too That appear to save us all And appear and offer words That back up the worship call. I will find someplace Where I could build a church; Leave all the naysayers In a theological lurch. I want to write new rules Maybe on tablets of gold And peddle my concept Until thousands are sold. Then we can get stronger And create our own thing Where hand chosen leaders Can carry on like kings. Once they are chosen Their persons will be sacred. They will have God’s mandate, So no human can take it. Of course we’ll do good things Like a religion really should. We’ll do charity and preaching And do a great amount of good. But what is most important And will really make us great Is to teach our people clearly Just who they have to hate. If we don’t approve of them Heaven will simply be denied; Just like the Court of Gentiles. They’ll have to stay outside. Because I want a religion Where what I say will be fact And all of the true believers Will know exactly how to act.
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Nov 6, 2015
Nov 6, 2015 at 9:45 PM UTC
PROPHETABLE PROSPECT
and as the western slavs took to roman calibration and the eastern slavs took to reinterpreting greek with cyrillic, both the eastern and the western slavs lost sight of their pagan "ordeal" by forgetting their once fabled fathers in the stately category of gods, so while the eastern slavs continued to cling so desperately to woman kneeling in shawls by the altar of "innocent" sacrifice, the western slavs experienced a pagan revival on calton hill - so within all this being done, roman lettering had to undue the theological plagiarism of turning zeus into jupiter and jesus into jehovah on that mighty trident of poseidon. (oh... is it really that desperate and annoying and childish to use these nouns? i'd like to see you replace zeus et al. with: hydroxypropyl starch phosphate... or sodium lauroamphoacetate, although i admit, there's one rational and scientific concession to this, zeus et al. are all imaginary nouns, a bit like √-1ª.) on the shore of loch lomond i was seduced by zeus to revive polytheism in earnest with a stern gazing eye, for zeus heard of the satisfaction of yahweh(ª although this noun isn't... because why would rabbis pain over yhwh with ha ha he he hi hi hu hu ** ** disambiguations, while the greeks didn't ze ze za za is is us us es es os os zi zi zu zu but instead allowed aristotelian musings?) at the establishment of the state of israel, (ah **** had the pictures once... but words are better than pictures since pictures are a blockage of memory’s revival while words penetrate - although the damnable thing is, i don’t remember what i said) then too i saw hades seal the revival having turned himself into cerberus in the forest of my resentments unnamed just above bedford’s forest.
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Oct 15, 2015
Oct 15, 2015 at 11:46 AM UTC
sodium lauroamphoacetate / √-1
and as the western slavs took to roman calibration and the eastern slavs took to reinterpreting greek with cyrillic, both the eastern and the western slavs lost sight of their pagan "ordeal" by forgetting their once fabled fathers in the stately category of gods, so while the eastern slavs continued to cling so desperately to woman kneeling in shawls by the altar of "innocent" sacrifice, the western slavs experienced a pagan revival on calton hill - so within all this being done, roman lettering had to undue the theological plagiarism of turning zeus into jupiter and jesus into jehovah on that mighty trident of poseidon. (oh... is it really that desperate and annoying and childish to use these nouns? i'd like to see you replace zeus et al. with: hydroxypropyl starch phosphate... or sodium lauroamphoacetate, although i admit, there's one rational and scientific concession to this, zeus et al. are all imaginary nouns, a bit like √-1ª.) on the shore of loch lomond i was seduced by zeus to revive polytheism in earnest with a stern gazing eye, for zeus heard of the satisfaction of yahweh(ª although this noun isn't... because why would rabbis pain over yhwh with ha ha he he hi hi hu hu ** ** disambiguations, while the greeks didn't ze ze za za is is us us es es os os zi zi zu zu but instead allowed aristotelian musings?) at the establishment of the state of israel, (ah **** had the pictures once... but words are better than pictures since pictures are a blockage of memory’s revival while words penetrate - although the damnable thing is, i don’t remember what i said) then too i saw hades seal the revival having turned himself into cerberus in the forest of my resentments unnamed just above bedford’s forest.
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The Pleasant Difference ‘Tween The Spiritual & Religious How to say this briefly: Firstly, find words for the inexpressible. They do exist. Here is the gist: Each has components - Churches, sects and cults, their creeds: The claim of being chosen. Pure spirit's -ality doesn’t seem to need A system woven Into scripture which professes knowing What is best for all, Where if you’re good you rise And if you’re bad you fall. The spiritual as an approach to life, Seems to place the emphases On unity within the mixture of beliefs; On peace and joy, and getting these; Transcendent over time and space And, most of all, A sense that you are face to face With truth about reality, Its indescribability. Yet not impossible to give a voice to; Love that comes, fear that goes! ****** no. A loving kindness big & small, Universal, – if you will, That permeates, recalibrates, Connecting to an All that’s spirit: All in all. Practices to help along: Meditation, psilocybin, prayer and song: The mystical both caused or opened. That said, non- theistic preference Needs to be demystified, a road for genius, dunce. Not piety, religion, magic, paganism, or god-based, Not theological nor physical, But meta-, deeply meaningful, Yes mystical! The core of all. The Pleasant Difference ‘Tween The Spiritual & Religious 2.9.2017 To The Child Mystic II; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Nature Of & In Reality; Arlene Corwin
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Feb 10, 2017
Feb 10, 2017 at 2:47 PM UTC
The Pleasant Difference 'Tween Spirituality & Religious
Propositions about the afterlife are futile. Do you believe in God, heaven, clouds, harps and cherubs? And then you die and discover that you must lead many more lives searching for perfection. Do you believe in the Bardo, in reincarnation, in the sweet possibilities of getting it right? And then you die and find yourself on a fluffy cloud surrounded by annoying cherubs whose harps are incessant. Or will you become a mute patch of earth, that is wet and dry and favored by worms. I have closed the eyes of the dead and all I can tell you is they were dead. What happens after is futile surmise. You believe or you don't. But believing is not knowing. And when you know, you will not say. ~mce
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May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015 at 3:30 AM UTC
Theological ********
From this mount will the fire roll To take its toll on my forlorn soul. Here I have trod to meet the living God, Standing on burning desert sod, out from behind any church façade. To meet the untamed Creatrix in all her wild variation for inspiration, Apart from any ecclesial illusion or theological delusion. To feel the heat of unbridled love from the God above, As fierce as the lion, gentle as the dove, While I lay me down naked at the foot of the mount To be lavished with all and more my soul could want. No pseudo-god imprisoned here, but only truth, No confessional booth; No. No bells and whistles or doctrinal thistles... On the God of Thunder, her Majesty of Wonder!
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Oct 5, 2013
Oct 5, 2013 at 5:43 PM UTC
In the Wilderness: Leaving Church, Part II
We as humans are terrified of dying, We create an imaginary world where we defy death, where we don't die, Yes our bodies may not exist anymore but we still live, because we as humans will never believe that we can die. We create "religions" we have a "hope" that we can live forever. But why? Why can't we just accept that we will be buried in a 6ft hole in the ground and nothing else will happen? Because it's a human survival instinct, our brains tell us "what ever the cost you must not die" so when we do really die we believe that we are still alive. Other people also  think that we are in "heaven". This I find fascinating in a phycological and theological aspect due to the fact that not only are you able to perceive the religious aspects behind death, but the phycological toll that a person grieving experiences. When you ask a person of a religious belief what death is to them, 9/10 of the people asked, responded with words very similar to each other. These descriptions describe a sort of afterlife "the denial of death" these questions were asked to many people with different cultural and religious beliefs. But to define death is like defining religion itself.
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Jun 26, 2016
Jun 26, 2016 at 3:47 AM UTC
Death