This is the second part of a poetry manuscript I am currently working on. I am hoping on turning it into a fantasy / science fiction novel with strong progressive political themes sometime in the not-too-distant future, if all goes well and as planned … I look at this work as kind of a worldbuilding and research / notes for future prose …

The first part is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/03/1198854/-Poetry-Dream-Poetry-Visions

It is definitely a work-in-progress, but I am pretty much done editing this particular part of the total manuscript, just so I can finish the project sometime in the next year or so, hopefully …

Dream Poetry Visions – Future Past Eternity Myth Sky Magic

Section One – The Secret Library

2006 – 2013

By — Joshua Oakley

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Part Two

Starflower Mandala

Violet Butterfly Wonder

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#26

Watering the Garden of Destiny, Future World Coming into Being

With the Earth’s deep embrace of hungry and thirsty roots
We the tillers of the soil call forth our daily nutrition
And the scavengers of life take away their percentage
We are left with what we need to survive, no more, no less
If we try to hold onto our food, hoard it as greedy capitalists
We find the vegetables grow rotten in imitation of ourselves
We have a duty to provide food to everyone who asks
These are hard times, and this age is nearing an end
The beginning of the next will depend on human goodwill
Paying for things is not enough, ownership is responsibility
That which we have is only borrowed, we cannot take
We are given a chance to rest for a while in pure mind
But when we return, if we return, our money does not wait
A pauper is just as likely to be rich in his next lifetime
All we have to hold onto through each change is spiritual
If it does not exalt the soul, it is not worth anything
Love, kindness, dignity, grace
We strive for absolutes and only find them within ourselves
There are reasons beyond measure to tend our soil well
Every passing stranger is another manifestation of the divine
Each hungry human being waits to be filled by something
With the simple work of growing, cultivating, preserving
Each passing season in which we spread water and plant seeds
Another opportunity to grow into our highest destiny
May each of our gardens thrive in the turbulent years to come

Portrait of the Artist – Purple Lotus Blossoming – Hope Springs Eternal – Consciousness

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#27

Song of Myself – Everlasting Starflower

Everything allows us to perceive
Reality cracks and divinity shining
Hearts and minds becoming one
Effulgent bliss surround hold protect
Allow us dreams of heaven
Experience underlying pattern of eternity
From dark to light doorway
Horror terror fear hate shame
Your dreams can come true
World conflict trial by fire
Through danger appears strange heroes
Spirit air water fire earth
Blue red yellow green orange
Every color and each element
Initiation into the deep mysteries
Dark shadow with magician hermit
Danger for friends and family
Refusal of call to adventure
Banishment and beginning again again
World salvation darkness to light
Accept destiny water and drown
Premonitions of shapes of things
Places personalities masks and secrets
Journey lessons learned and remembered
Your true initiation never ends
The basis of Greek-Roman-British culture
Rational intuitive philosophy of knowledge
Axiomatic yet imperfect vital humanism
Out of all possible worlds
This our mystery we know
Beyond the edge of physics
The universe stretches far forever
There’s always more to come
A stage dream constant rehearsal
At the same time finished
Flash of black or white
Gold silver together at heart
Always beginning in ending
Other worlds and different times
Related to earth and sky
The planet we all share
That which is everything
With the most useful transcendence
Mind remembers the future shadows
Parallel planes bubbles and points
Various multicolored gem worlds floating
An unbroken circle and chain
Happy to consider the wonders
Grandeur and vastness of space
Far and deep within and without
Yet heart is the center
Soul light wisdom air body
Sky looks down and through
Creates and reveals self discovery
Spirit builds networks of consciousness
Between different and separate lives
Interpenetrating the lines limits horizons
Overcoming understanding awareness of self
Night longs to be real
Harmony music of the cosmos
Something special as a star
Come join in healing growth
Sorrow thorns hate fear self
Shadow allow light to shine
Through life endless star night
Sadness flowers dance and forgive
Beauty to behold one moment
Time before you behind you
Find anything worth dying for
Live space to remember forgetting
Sky purple water blue butterfly
Despair and deception all conquering
Love that binds the universe
Force constant state of change
Evolution transformation growth

Mysterious Self World Unconscious Collective Knowledge Myth

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#28

Today Is The Only Day

World Healing Compassion Hope Balance Nature Protectors
Egypt Greece Rome Ever Onwards – Always Beginning Again

Isis and Osiris, Apollo and Aphrodite belong together
All their pain leads to growth transforming
No suffering sadness sorrow except their own
Peculiar perfect relation between opposites
Everyone’s hidden secrets loves potentials
Transcending overcoming fear envy meanness
Towards more truth beauty light
Sorrows reminding me of ancient mysteries
Memories reflections mirrors of what once was
Shall be given enough space idea time
Beautiful night sky full of blinking worlds
I awaken ready for always already every
And all good things desire ending need
Weight of past present future
Speak truth beautiful even especially to shadows
Dark help move beyond worry defeat horror
Terrible mystery give form nothingness not afraid
Once again realize the illusion surrounds us
Disconnection fragmentation and despair
Make belief dream become reality
Similar simultaneous here and there
Some point to words never
Explain direct experience through stories
Surrender to ways of otherness
Stand beyond shadow fear doubt
And awareness clarity vision stays
Remember and you remain strong
Open unblocked brilliant uncovered calm
Again change yet stay radical essential romantic
Bliss beings understanding themselves true conscious beautiful
Magic of combination synthesis alchemy
One out of many foundations for modernity
And what will come after what is
And what we least expect comes inside
Hidden places we thought secret secure safe
Always already loving you shadow and whole
Makes complete the broken parts and pieces
Thief warrior magician stranger outcast
Hero of world and self and everywhere
Between beyond within and without
One story yet endless subjects perspectives experiences
What allows breath flowering self
Aware yet selfless lovely amazing
Allows the one you want infinity worlds
Allows forgotten moments to accept use discover
Creates meaning and relationship understanding
Evolving and moving and transforming
World without end except only dimly remembered
Beginning always again always beginning
Preservation of knowledge wisdom beauty
Through the never forgotten years eras histories
Opposing justifying validating one another
Within implicated hidden embedded throughout
The great memory web of twin reflections
Cosmos throughout and within stars
Sun planet family mind energy body soul
Yesterday the world came to a beginning
Darkness and light we truly love learning
We must choose what will be today
Context meaning relationships now
Three acts in one play of life spiral wheel

Labyrinth Duality Perfection Balance Deep Good Life Flowing Growing Loving

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#29

Shadow Light Process Life Organic Growth Change – Woman of My Dreams

I love even your dark shadow half
An extension of myself, the garden earth
And I need you far more than you need me
I work and never seem to finish completely
Small successes and occasional growth
Keep going ever onwards towards
Until weeds come back, and I realize their use
What I disliked I have now become
I am the outcast ostracized from belief
Ignorance disguised as absolute truth
I shake out the dirt from each harvested plant
I use what is left in the big compost pile
The healthy plants aerate the soil and grow before dying
Adding their nutrients back into the circle
Cycle garden canvas never finished only begun
Eternally or for as long as the sun shines
The grass grows and the wind blows
Great satisfaction contained within every day’s work
Enjoy the fruits of your labor and your love
I have cultivated plants and they changed me too
The soil relationship between landscapes and humans
I want to give you everything you need
Not just to survive, but to thrive
Not just use but cooperate with nature
Spread the seeds of wilderness and growth
Appease the voracious appetites of the humans
Many I want to have and help to spread
Many are good to eat and work as medicine
Give back more than they take from the cycle
Grass and trees and flowers all working and eating
Adding and multiplying each and everything important
Breaking the rocks to provide foundational elements
When balanced the forces work and eat together
Cooperating and not just competing for scarcity
When in balance I am at peace with myself
Within the world surrounding me

Shadow Light Process Life Organic Growth Change

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#30

Song of One in Two and Two in One

Love – Abraxas – Unity of Singing
Global Peace Vision – Universal Truth Wisdom

When the world turns, turn into me, you say
Allow me the pleasure of warm loving arms
Hard to cope without nearness
Fantasies and alternative imaginative realities
Another earth in another universe
Sun stars rare archetypes of the soul
Treasure of wisdom jewel of understanding
Compassion and connections multiple worlds
Creating relatives of divinity parenting
Dark age reason logic against belief myth
Even within systems of control
Seeds of revolution grow constantly
Chaotic dark stars dancing, Nietzsche and Kant together
Interplay of light and darkness within Abraxas
Pattern true existence balance between
Chaos and order, and complexity and simplicity
The psyche in creative control and structured novelty
Power given and taken along with love and sex
Combination and creation of new idea generations
Give you me we each other how
No one really knows everything
What the totality and which the path
When differences and multiple perspectives
Who changes and stays in the middle
Cosmological evolution on a grand epic scale
Viruses plagues and unsustainable cities
Across ocean multiverses civilization spreads
Agreements for exploitation of nature
God and Goddess image stamped on currency
Material energy numbers and networks
The alchemical twin serpent Ouroboros
Reconcile the seemingly opposing sides
The unconscious makes itself known
Dreams and intimations visions otherness
Converse contrast the bridge crossroads
Individual and universal emotional intelligence
The eternal mind transcends yet stays within
Background and foreground everywhere between
Talk to angels and demons, God within
Find Him/Her/It/Them/Yourself dreaming
Adrift in the cosmic ocean of light
Try to understand the truth and beauty
Remember the balance and peace
Peace be upon my brothers and sisters
And above all remember to trust yourself

Song of One in Two and Two in One – Shadow Light Process Life Organic Growth Change

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#31

Shared Destiny – Magic Is Possible

Tears fall like rain, souls falling to earth from
Sky reborn below to remember who they really are
Star eye pyramid Horus elegant abstract creations
Ancient mystery makes the world from song and poetry
Shadows of future possibilities inspire great workings
Remembrances of the best of what has come create
Artemis Sophia Athena reflected and reborn forever
Eternally recurring patterns of life ever transforming
Evolving towards novelty wisdom of ancient myths
Sensual sadness beauty blood blue sorrow somnolent
Rose lavender sage trinity circles and triangles
Questions answers lies and truth beauty love
Garden moon planets and phases movement change
Expansive wilderness waterfall rock bridge
Forest trial and initiation through darkness storms
We run together over and up and around mountains
Life beautiful ease of overflowing eternal light
Sun rises and sets always to be trusted followed
The youngest of our family jumped into deep water
At first I am worried about him alone in the river
Away from the home I have known all my life
Athens Babylon Alexandria cities of great knowledge and wisdom
Streets with great golden automatons and transhuman soul bodies
My vision conflicts with my biological family, father and mother
I fashion a sailing ship and ready provisions
A long journey I expect perhaps many days travel
My true family accepted my attachment to the missing one
They did not try to stop me from going on my quest
We shared dreams and visions of what would be
The golden spirits talked to me in wind whispers
We prepare to sail together to find our missing brothers and sisters

Magic Is Not Just Possible, but Necessary – Bounded Yet Infinite Stars Eyes Serpents Vision Unity Light and Dark Shadow Angels and Angel Shadows

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When Vision Allows – Life Light Love – Self World Universe

Illusion Separation Reality Division Individuation Alchemy Balance

Who dreams awake singing poetry
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony — Ode to Joy
Ever expanding galaxies, clusters, universes
Confidence step through open door into darkness
You wait in the light on the other side
Tunnel through the underworld below the bridge
Body mind soul integrates wheel of life
Time track and world train travel through cosmic oceans
Everyone’s world can be different, always looking
Someone shares world with me
Some people let me be part of their worldview
Umwelt semiosphere constructed and created
Fluid creativity design chaos structures
Balance vision clarity with reason
Emotional truth and beauty together
With philosophy and scientific materialism
Create landscapes mind soul body
External environment mirroring the internal
Worlds within individuals project outward
Create the shared world we all must live in
Together the forces energies designs ideas beliefs
Knowledge is not enough, yet certainly helps
Breath of life and force of consciousness
Manifest goodness measured in symmetry
Meaning relational context and growth
Transformation journeys personal and universal
Memory understanding love carry with us always
With or without others’ worlds and worldviews
Once again, be careful when you come close
Edge of the world and the cosmic river ocean
End is beginning anew life soul consciousness
Bounded but not limited universes without end
“Please tell me why are we here,” you say
“Why are we here now and always?” I respond
Always more of everything hard and easy
Breaking rules and restrictions and promises
Mistaken words and silent kisses and sighs
Neck bites and blood flowing within hearts
Bodies minds souls together and yet apart
Pleasure and pain unite then separate again
Mouth tongue and voice golden sound whisper
Sun life flow your blue white green dragon heart
Temples pillars bedposts everyone’s rest and restraints
Desire dream despair destruction delight destiny death
Parts of the universal story and each individual storyteller

Fractal Mandala Flower of Life

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Multiverse – Sun and Moon – Future

Beautiful moon bright sky night stars clouds river life cosmos infinity ocean
Past tunnel chaotic dark heart dancing artist water bodhisattva
Present now loving compassion goddess vision mountain
Evolution symmetry pattern fractal mandala flower open
Revolution above below within force energy listening
Season movement change unity presence binding space time reflection
Calendar year victory comedy defeat joy food growing family
Generations primordial building moments farmer machines people
Development now there is other time hands extensions technologies
Clustering what has come before and there is method
Spiral riding wave labyrinth nature cycle time
Dance monsters we meet are ourselves mirror man woman
Sing passion knowing hope necessary lovers light and dark
Maybe more know they exist underworld all suns morning
Love light sloping culture humanity night longing
Shining star before after we embrace rising east truth beauty good
Careful world mechanical atomic fragmentation recurrent novelty
Animals within my heart within internal external differences unity
Systems expand shadow evil great opposition myth eternal conflict
Automatic and yesterday I held another inside my hands
Cities I felt ripen fall nothing meaning everything relationship
Farms swollen rotten fruit work change spring
House we were the same just as we are now consciousness
Robots and by helping I am remembering my responsibility
Bodies I felt new understanding heart awareness
Spirit and the white light that healed me love
Conscience protection of breath shared destiny of humanity
Memory and there is no way I could have lived without
Personality you believe masks images attempt waking sleep dreaming
Guided meditation peace energy I lay another bed down
Floor balance nutrients into clear bright night sky full moon stars
Water shining for you transform
Wind everyone who cared to watch light learning love
Sky and everything was one yet different in presence
Earth world integration different complex simplicities sameness
Fire patterns of life birds endless repeating discovering creating new imaginings

Peace Love Compassion Understanding Justice Equality

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House of Transformation – Journey Through Darkness into Light

Love Peace Health Ecology Understanding Justice Compassion Integration Music
Life, Duality, Individual Ineffable Mystery, Beauty, Sublimation of Conflict
Waking Dream Vision Consciousness Growing Transforming Becoming

Ghosts of wars and landscapes and people that have been will be here
Fight memories and betrayed unity of humanity and nature
Tired arguments against future world new generations
I cannot stop hoping caring peace to lost souls
I can find a way out sometimes I remember the perfect door key
Wall I push through disguises and hidden tunnels and pathways
Arrows of light vision imagery guide me to freedom open sky
Blackness and brightness of night wispy clouds shapes escape
I fly friends family time getting away from fear hate apathy fatalism despair
One that is my self perhaps is having difficulty and I urge onwards into air
Reunite we others walk run swim fly crawl the meeting place
I remember I left diamond in the sacred mountain lake of life water
Circle heart magic where we gather and I show what I have found beautiful jewel
Fight over control someone takes and gives away the treasure mystery
I am sorrowful force and feeling afflicted by greed and shortsightedness
Those that can follow consciously apologize part as friends and partners
I notice that there is a very fast stream of creatures of all types traveling a forest path
I decide to follow the progression of animals and spirits moving
I realize that there is no reward better than experiencing their journey
Great mother tree of heaven earth underworld crossroads and axis mundi
Beauty structure fluidity creation earth water myth poetry chaos
Complex truth peace understanding consciousness communication infinity
Nature ecstasy loves and loved now future time beginning
Reality psyche masks moon silver and sun gold firebirds
Venus desert phoenix bodies hidden watching Mars
Lying night on a roof staring light mouth books
Sword knowledge to the full moon surrounding serpent scissors
Book I felt it love all rocks cliffs sky
Skeleton and everything happened for a reason mirrors lute
Dragon spiral hero fool oblivious empty but happy
Frame house all show we will one moment pitcher symbol image
Window in our future perception life water wine wonder
Thunder in all terror beauty war peace
Balance hanging necessary darkness evil spirits crab
Squid lovers sisters enemy friends imagination reading
Mountain forest we know that all we thought was real
Robbers mythic fantasy sacred name gypsies music
Wanderers surrendering beginning ghosts evil
Inn the crossroads testing judging changing ecstasy reality intelligence
Traveling demons and the devil perception map landscape plan supplies adventure
Duty there is darkness and there is darkness insulting
Jug water five demons fear hate trees
Winter song rest well laughter monk preacher guardian magic
Departure jazz future meditation joy bliss becoming being understanding
Searching always skulls thief death brothers shadow hero twins raven clouds
Dagger we must become more familiar glove serpent hill
Barn spirit with the territory of our birth table room door
Chair stone wood arch roof misty raining night sky
Morning clear we do not know we are early bright stars
Silent we only know we do not belong outside inside anywhere
Music illumination cosmos dancing singing eternal changing creativity
Imagination myths captivating imagery worlds universes stories
Sound the show life play now vision purple lotus
Blue white dragon heart green life flowing moss surrounding
Light wine river underworld heaven earth flowers field sleep
Waking dream transformation happy wisdom child smile

Light Reflection Intuition – Peace Peace Peace

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All One – Spiral Galaxy Humanity

Quest to defeat fear everywhere misty mountains sky and land spirits communicate
Doorways windows intuition reflection of future possible worlds realities
Light prophecy when I was a child of flower dreams and premonitions
Balance of structure and chaos change medicine guidance and teaching
Learning travelers and their stories of myths and politics of the world
When I was a child, I was afraid of the dark abyss shadow consciousness
Cosmic ocean of time and space multiplicity infinity expansion
Initiation vast expanse seemingly limitless darkness deep and wide
Master friend wise magician sage behind my closed eyelids beyond
Overcoming anger and fear transmuting into passion love positive emotion
Creative transformation history hidden self nothing I can do without birth
Process illusion and beauty of wind on water reality seeds growing transcendence
Honor courage strength art science and alchemy helps return to source of life
Pleasure and desire one within preservation words language shell spiral
Space inner and outer exploration discovery creation angels and guardians
Morning silence opening memories here there everywhere house order organic
Rain tears souls falling rising evolution and involution transcendence and immanence
Warrior saying goodbye to conflict and war starlight sun family soldiers find peace
Culture and people find it hard to walk away from past lives magic of Apollo
One dies and finds a new pair of rainbow eyes dark soul reflecting Artemis
Isis virgin full moon nature universe active and passive order and chaos
Wind and water and water and wind together with balance diversity duality
Great spirit and mother earth protect and preserve wise leaders
Sailors of the cosmic sea and their premonitions of good fortune and world peace
Foreshadowing overcoming learning becoming transforming ourselves always being born
Opportunity in crisis and doing what has to be done in order to make the best outcome
Difficulty companions leaving behind what we have known before and will know
Imagination offers hope and ever-expanding realm and multiverse of possibilities
Integrated worlds within worlds each one dependent ultimately on the earth
Total ecology biosphere society culture construct relationship of humanity and nature
Peace should we be able to associate ourselves with our own mirror reflection
Opposition and polarization balance through ties and connections binding and setting free
Personal global responsibility learning pragmatic transcendental knowledge about wisdom
Balance complexity becoming amidst being starlight and snowflakes falling in winter
Love when guidance gives passwords to pass the gate of magic reflection and other
Guardians at the edge of infinity within and without the individual and collective Self
Highest ideal and practical application action and discovery of truth amidst illusion and lies
Light from darkness beyond deep waters of feeling and emotional understanding within
Origin tales and mythic legends sailors traveling far away from home to find treasure
Dark star souls dancing still and calm brightly shining reflected in the blazing of stars
Labyrinth of past meeting future reflection poetry math in among around galaxies
The entirety of the universe as far as we can tell stretches out for billions of years
Light communication and spirit of life interpenetrating and connecting the whole
More than the sum of its parts, more than what happens, yet contained within reality now
Duality uncertainty and relativity uniting to form a new kind of skepticism about everything
Foundation of what is good for the universe of human souls, at least this much is true
To time and an unknown end yet possibly knowable and possible for our hopes to create
Peace the eternal ideal and all attending qualities and values and reasons and justifications
Stories from unknown times reflecting magic friendship worthy imagination when you leave
Creativity and man woman together must learn without each other light vision opposition
Holding close cycle year seasons of heart dream same yet always changing becoming different
Enemy I do not understand why we should have to fight and grieve and destroy without mercy
Door circle open portal sweet scent lilac lavender hills mountains forest duality overcoming
Polarization any being other than ourselves immune to suffering we are the most important
Existence light earth water fire air self and other love relationship balance nostalgia for future
Past and present integration beyond and within hope — The reason for suffering self growth
Illusion beauty mystery darkness evil understanding purpose life serve self community world

Communication – All One Within Without Illusion Life Destruction Resurrection Rebirth Secret Ancient Pathway Pain Change Night Day Duality Love

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Maya

One – The Library of Alexandria

I wear a veil illusion and darkness and light fitting mood and body, soul and heart mind
I make for Self infinity close and far realities strung together and apart in chains weaving Longer than I can ever and never always and sometimes seem to imagine beyond the limits What is real to me in limited and narrow perception glorious and fragile experience
What is to be human on earth — Tailors make necessary integration from and with self Between others based on what I do not know — Pray and sing physics mind and heart Compassion existence of life transcendence never end forever — Not disappearing far away From vision and fall of protection and friendship and keep connecting love
Becoming being what will come and transform into our future reflected past history Balance mirror image twin shadow projection ideal form perceiving who and what I am
Two – Brothers and Sisters

Butterfly and sunflower transform meet together with joy in spring triumph of sunrise
Golden dawn comes mystic observe work ages and generate story and myth and poetry
Magic creatures bring peace rising within self and throughout the world we must all share
Transcending self nature mind — Finding inseparable connections, essential truth Consciousness bliss awareness — All is one, love conquers all, the equation of life always
Until we are ready to dissolve into self, broken and mended while we sleep and dream
Wide awake through the movement and mystery of time space becoming being together
Remembering reality hidden and escaping the trap of forgetting where we came from
Why we chose the path that we follow and the tunnel through forest sea sky and mountains

The Library of Alexandria – Mountain Valley Garden Temple Peace Overcoming Transcending Ocean Shore Doorway Circle Open Faery Interdimensional Gateway Star Heart Portal Light Truth Consciousness Bliss

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Self Community World Universal Peace

Cerulean blue some moments alone with solitude creation playing finding keeping giving living
Indigo violet desire hope despair joy losing control gaining happiness in growth change chaos
Order good if we can learn to see behind the veil of waiting across worlds around each other
Evil individual as they tremble we realize we are all one consciousness surrounding ourselves
Groups ideologies worldviews languages masks religions philosophies thoughts feelings blue
Love pride presence within necessary duality white red green yellow orange purple eros ethos
Venus that remains when illusion is vital to survival on the planet yet we must keep asking
Isis and starlight writing reading conscious unconsciousness mirror reflection
Sun and moon cloak of maya porous allowing truth music dream waking vision positive future
Voice energy life shining through probability art meaning music peace love understanding
You me if only we learn to stretch out our own minds as our own masters forever consciousness
Water distance hearts and minds listening storyteller shared poetry and myth of past meeting present
Book of relationship heart context balance you and me denial words conflict and reconciliation
The weapon of love and understanding to work towards the shared goal and vision of peace
Honesty in constant ecstasy with one creator self and world interconnected relationship cocreation
Vision deep finding peace feeling thoughts words sound vibrations love traveling through air sky ether
Open dark and like a beautiful explosion of color the sunflower blossoms peace protection preservation
Self upon the graves of all the war dead and forgotten ghosts of ancestors yet looking after us the living all
Belief and knowledge combine in truth beauty goodness one body shared through spirit symbol soul
Archetypal awakening to reality and what is always already surrounding us past present and future
Grateful thanks to life and opportunity to create preserve and reveal the nature of things as they are
Children may be there wishes jump flying falling expanding heart echo reflection memory
Valley warm green life wine song being peace define up down thank you and waking dream
Mountain tunnel door becoming love sorrow sea origin going back to the beginning source
Castle sky mother world peace teaching guide keys open door dew balance soul mind brother
Ships fragment bridge window gateway rain tears enter true nature better world possible
Sailing towards tower able to fly discover body we can get there together for warm understanding
Adventure speaking meaning text fact reality destiny birth always being born again kiss purpose
Space time expand if first one finds balance in self destruction growth overcoming shadow
Learning theft loss symbols lines present self oblivion of illusion changing hiding chaos within core twins
Transforming can bring everything nothing more suffering peace balance change transform world community
Transcend pain immanence conscious wonder beauty mystery discover truth in sun moon ocean earth
Challenge the road to hell with good motivation against shadow darkness demons destruction pollution
Initiation for my life I find alternatives yet nothing more than peace again comes back to truth
Calling story songs drinking singing thinking listening dreaming of different times, different places
Together peace seeking humility and knowing others seeing and recognizing eyes souls hearts

Dream Creation – Shadow Alchemy Eyes Vision Heart Emanation Balance Integration Wisdom Environment

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#38

Light and Shadow – Evolution Growth Change

One – Becoming Within Being

Zeus Odin Vishnu, Hera Freya Lakshmi — Archetypes of transcendental preservation
Nature spirits stories of gods, goddesses, men, women, those masks personalities between
Balance opposite aspects male female chaos order reflection shining understanding again
Right wrong good evil dark light polarities reconciliation throughout worlds shared by all
For the greatest good of greatest number of people animals plants living on planet Earth
For the memory of the history passed down for sixty centuries and for future generations
Mercury and Aphrodite together form a more perfect union human and divine diversity
Earth Sky Heaven meet elements of creation knowledge truth fire and water understanding
A miracle — Bodhisattva of compassion in flesh — Young woman star night sky lover friend

Two – Transformation Progression Towards Perfection of Balance

How complication complexity and why understanding together discovery creation
Uncertain definition life center information chaos in my memory of transformation
Process never ending truly born being the same yet different time space together reflection
Mandala of light all colors most glorious individual nature organic organization symmetry
Pantheistic who what when where how why say people masks personalities true and false
Something differentiated yet common all who live breathe think feel become amidst being
Each creates represents reflects together their own center of an self world universe bubble
Individual psychological illumination contains seeds of the whole alternative everything
Maker and the made are made one in reflection both reality and illusion shadow and light
Two in one the dance of love continues ever onward towards transcendental integration
Dark brown golden light expression moisture fullness words spoken and unspoken desire
Mind personal divinity feeling distant unambiguous complete peace hope inspiration
Inner light duality nature friendship companionship dark light chaos and order one in two

Three – Dreaming Awake

Press my hands and eyes together to wipe away sleep though I dream while I am awake
Sadness reaching otherness lover gold silver black white volcano
Hands only I asleep dreaming roaring awake and becoming
Snow comprehension ultimate meaning feeling thought emotion
Boots simple ever changing formulas equations theories cold breathing life longing
Warmth teacher writing walls boundaries structures secrets
Hearing fear stories masters bowing respect helping shadow mountains
Whispers we have truth nature goodness crying
Wind blowing beating his hands against enemies frustration hate fear illusion
Infection memory why seeming anger conflict pathos hubris defeat victory tragedy
Snail spiral sound shell because the numbers kept changing with each blink of my eyes
Colony vision secret movement messages no matter what order they come
Salt protectors guardians correct answer dear students and questions
Heat you can choose to let sorrow tears fall upon earth
Medicine I asked him why always
Herbs and he replied fate and destiny
Enemy incense waves collective echo reverberation covering growth
Sickness what is this supposed to mean simply simplicity
Memory I do not have an answer to satisfy
Weak except that I met you inside me and you told me wisdom
Robe yet I was too confused to understand your words at the time
Cure peace green eye compassion expanding passage action morning
Walk becoming correct vision always already what you said
Snow and I am too afraid to say what consequences dreams may bring
Hat scarf coat blue lightning dark clouds otherwise storming believe yourself
Quiet artifact feast celebration honor life spring beauty spirit smoke transformation
Intimacy sanctuary calm before snowflakes more storms
Serpent salvation lessons learned shadow appearance heartbeat
Water air love jealousy pride bravery arrogance
Water earth love rebirth energy force forgiveness lava listening flowing within
Journey underworld king return danger trial imitation pathway knowledge world hero
Meeting fire and air symbolic drowning of ego return to truth
Fire earth water conflict shadow forces twins equality opposition directions guardians
Shadow sunlight brings time five dimensions and chorus of soldier warriors

Four – Becoming Rainbow Warriors

Chords music kiss hang words really stop begin again
Wanting desire sight vision many things
Denial despair defeat turning becoming sighs again and again
Yes yielding advancing becoming
Smiles laughter shaking pleasure exploration soul body longing
Tongue language beauty mystery
Garden sweet taste love chemical reaction combustion creation
Imagination nature within energy
Waiting long moments arrive how long linger embracing complete
Alchemical integration love being
Smooth fire and ice within and outside light and expressive shadow
Bursting forth to experience life
Lavender fields spring growth resurrection renewal rebirth pattern
Eternity destiny lovers dreaming

Five – Bodhisattva of Compassion

Goddess of life itself — The beauty of oceans and forests and all growing things
Cycles of nature — Duality of man and woman, light and dark, morning and night
All are unified and transcended by love — Wind through the trees, Rain falling on souls
Blue, green, purple light of understanding life all around us — Everything is perfect
Flowers in the garden, spirit of silver shadow, children of the moon and the sun
Magic of love and lightning and the hope of perfection becoming even better

Goddess of Beauty – When You Least Expect Love

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#39

True Love Lost, Not Yet Regained

Hundreds of versions of myself, spread out over many times and places — All very similar
Saying and doing the same things, though in slightly different situations — Repetition, echo
Some variations have their own personality, and provide guidance to me when I am silent

Even if I do not actually follow their advice, they tell me what I should and should not do
One with special experience in particular romance tells me not to try again with Helen
There is chemistry, to be with her again would be very difficult, without much reward

I find Sophia sitting with her childhood self, and my own inner child — Playing
He teaches me how to be happy, for I have forgotten more than I can remember
I teach him how to fly, and how to fall gracefully — His future will require rising above

I ask Sophia if she hears the echoes of her other selves, but she does not
Her childhood self curses a lot — An interesting pair we make, though contentious
She comes close, but then leaves to be with Helen, and once again I am alone with myself

One of their female lovers comes to say that I am still wanted by both Helen and Sophia
But I do not want to go through the pain of seeing either of them with someone else
So I write a poem and draw a picture and leave them in a package for Sophia to find

Strangers try to keep me with them, which is flattering though I want to be with another
My soul keeps getting caught in circles — And my feet get stuck so I cannot leave
Until I have listened to the music all the way through — All the way around to the end

The circle of life continues to turn, the records that make me happy also bring me sadness
But I am learning, and it is possible to go back to the beginning again, if only in memory
And there is always the possibility of finding true love, beyond compassion and empathy

When I talk to Sophia, I tell her I love her and miss her — Yet I am afraid to go to her
I disregard my own advice and try to find Helen, despite the pain and heartbreak
I know that I am meant to be with one and not the other, but I am weak and uncertain also

And I know that Sophia may not feel the same way about me that I feel about her
A different kind of love, unpossessive and free from jealousy, at least most of the time
Yet I still cannot help but hope that one day we’ll be together, when I am a better person

I know there will be heartbreak and loss and pain, but also some occasional contentment
My heart is full of red wine, and there is always the prospect of finding true love again
Even if I never see Sophia again, she will continue to be in my thoughts and dreams

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#40

Learning to Fly – Dream Journeys Within and Without

I teach others in my world how to fly and pass through seemingly solid matter
How to tell if you are dreaming or not — Lucidity — Some are receptive to knowing
Others do not want to think what they see and feel is not real, though it is always real
Just not always the same reality as waking life — Different dimensions, worlds

An old man seems to think I am telling him that he has passed on to the afterlife
I tell him that I don’t think the dream world is where people go when they die
At least not as their home — The afterlife is something greater and more mysterious
That dreams are an intermediary between the many dimensions of life beyond the physical

Those who wish me physical harm have much trouble — By knowing that I am dreaming
Most violence does not cause permanent damage — Though it usually hurts to get shot
The emotional and mental hurt is usually worse — both in dreams and waking life
Though it does help to concentrate on helping other people whenever possible to do so

Each person has their own mind and their own dreams, their own territories of mystery
Yet some who care for each other can share, and everyone can visit the homes of others
Boundaries of dream are fluid and each soul is both an island and a member of the whole
It is very hard to make an accurate map of the shifting territories of night tying together life

Perhaps even the rocks and water have their own dreams and personifications to explore
Gods and demons may come into your dreams offering gifts, danger, chances for wisdom
You may visit other places beyond your own mind, echoes of Solar Earth, hells and heavens
Worlds of myth and magic — The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination

And the will to explore and discover the world within yourself, and the multiverse outside
Both are infinite in their mysteries and doorways to worlds and visions yet undreamed of
We can visit other planets, other stars — Dimensions of alien life physical and beyond
Everything a mystery I would not have any other way, no matter how hard not knowing is

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#41

Five Worlds

There is something beyond sublimation of thought — Supramental involution
Evolution of nature towards ever increasing novelty and perfection
Revealing of divinity within — Everything is everything else, yet different
It is hard to even begin to understand the Tao — Inscrutable, mysterious, beautiful
Great spirits and alternate realities — Gods and demons — Universes strung like pearls
Consciousness and force of love in the dimensions and worlds beyond our own

Arisen from the primordial oppositions — Black and white — Life and death — Twins
Gods and demons — And humanity in the middle illustrating the divine cosmic indwelling
Inversion of traditional evolution force — Entropy and growth united in synthesis
Alchemy of transformation for new forms — Patterns and processes of expression
Creativity and control unified in acceptance — Letting what may be come without fear
Overcoming duality through integration — Combination — Birth, rebirth, redistribution
Clarity and passion for change and becoming — Being life across the world and universe

Biological and spiritual development — Change, growth, transformation
Symbols and reason — Art and mathematics — Science and philosophy
From two come the 10,000 things — Self-existing and interdependent
Micro and macro — Rainbow fractal of the self and universe
Being and becoming — Action and passivity — Male and female
Process and crystallization — Good and evil — Conflict and resolution
Dragons and tigers — Friends and lovers — Bloodless revolution,
Remembering how it is to be truly human — And to rise above
Positive applications of knowledge — Power for good not evil
Balance of opposites and complexities to make sense of the world
Human beings as preservers of life not destroyers — A new paradigm
All are one in the spirit of humanity — The fundamental power of love

Acceptance through unification — Peace in sublimation of conflict
Language of the ancients — Love and order in chaos of the multiverse
Scorpion, lion, and bull conquered by the maiden, mother, and crone
Unicorn star woman immortal star goddess of all that is, was, and shall be
Symbol, pattern, symmetry, combination — Creativity and reason
Structure and art — Bull and scorpion — Opposites yet friends and lovers

They are all closely related and connected — By time, the universe, force of love
All of the stars have their own influences — Together they make up our galaxy
Vast and mysterious — Answers can be simple and beautiful, and also complex
I know much though I am not sure how best to carry across my meaning
A dog rolling his nose in the earth — A woman telling me that I am loved
Happiness — Lovely garden surrounding my home — A place to dream of adventure
On a ship or by foot, always searching for the meaning of life, and then again

Growth, transformation, desire, knowledge, evolution, transcendence
Each goal leads to the one of knowing who we all are together and alone
Poetry, myth, dream, story — Beyond myself, yet part of me — The person inside
My head and my heart wants desperately to explore the world and the universe
Not just in dreams, but in waking life — Experience of external reality
With words and deeds beyond philosophy — Even art only a part of the whole
Personal and yet universal culture — Complexity, chaos, and order
Good and evil, right and wrong, left and right, male and female
Sun and moon, silver and gold, gods and demons — From darkness to light

All of this has always existed, exists now, and will always exist
Torn between left and right, chaos and order, good and evil
Opposites in binary pairs on all levels, dimensions, worlds, universes
Until we realize we are all the same, all a part of the one whole
And some of us already know, and all of us are capable of knowing
Toward peace, our goal above all, within all, outside of all our desires
Flow of time burning everything, yet life remains eternally reborn
Nothing ever truly ends, and we never have to stay anywhere forever

In all your artistic endeavors and pursuits I wish you luck and transcendence
Please remember you are not alone — There will always be beautiful people who care
By drawing and writing and singing into creation the eternal now that is
Past, present, and future unified — Peace, love, and understanding

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