Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:07:50 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Practicing for the Folk Trance



Practicing for the Folk Trance

At her invitation
the initiation began
repeatedly moving.
Simple awareness
projections
in animal forms
gave rise to direct journeys.

The bird brought messages,
a flocked letter of time,
a black crow beyond the window,
an owl alone near illusion,
a glimpse of the eagle's river,
the sparrows fluttering in dry earth.

The energy was a sensation
an invisible pressure of akasha. 
Listening...
the emotions crept in,
ego purposes surfaced,
the pressure from below
grew to a great heat
erupting
into vivid images
of Iccha Shakti.

The further falling of the awareness
landed in a well of time
distortion 
like a grammatical displacement
sent things of case 
destructured rhythm
caught like sight at slow motion
tableaus.
Paradigm monsters of desire,
structural flaws
hemmed by the habits of mind.

Deeper clarity
brought peace to the disturbed waters.
He could feel her flavor
and hear her voice
quiet and monotone,
with a lightness of beauty
to subtle to grasp,
with questions
she directly thought.

The dark blue gave way to the sky
and returned the wakening awareness
all around.
His mental thought
of the larger truth
implied 
by the experience
she offered
and he received
by letting go.

The quantum fluctuations were 
in the universal manifestation.
Deeper quietness and imaginative points of entry
helped to focus
not on the near realism of the previews
he often saw
accompanied by the hype of emotions
no longer tempered by the mind's surface.
It started with visages of people
picture memories that would flow
if he chose one to follow
allowing entry to the contact 
at the outer edge of his inner surface 
it became more of a widening transcription.
Symbolic formations told a condensed story
which analytic leaps
and associative expansions
brought into richness of insight.

Kundalini Shakti enjoyed the lifting
quality of these experiences
and his conception was fulfilled
as a greater potential
allowed him to see the performed reality
of the dense ethereal view.

Still, 
to expand the mind habits
to a greater way of seeing,
the truth of her poem began
to uncover the hidden parallels,
the shared themes,
synchronicities
in formations of her manifesting
body and its event sphere
filled with her world (unmesha).

It was the desire arising
that fueled his journey
and pushed him to the edge of the world.
The roar ahead pulled him to bhoga,
the land of power,
but a deeper longing for the sky
allowed the wind to come along.
The light began to enter
to transform and empower
the codified sets of her culture's
play.
Aspirations bloom
like Jesus sometimes
or a rediscovered love
comes anew.

Vrtti labeled the modifiers of consciousness
the manifesters she used
presented themselves in environments
circulations where Laksmi sometimes graced.
Saraswati exacted 
with concentration
sincerity 
seemed to focus and deepen the contact,
but still it a was boat floating on a sea of ignorance
a limitation to the direct true knowing
an eavesdrop
that splashed in the maya,
a feeling that clung at a low self-esteem
and a pattern of ego.

Joy came
and softened into quietness
and she drifted in
more...


Sterling Hart
tejas-AT-avalon.net