tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89629232309190808082024-03-21T11:08:52.153-07:00FALL SERIES 2011: Method in the NEPSIS FOUNDATIONSTEVE FROST PhD-
This FALL SERIES '12 explores a complex of themes through fiction and non-fiction prose, essays, poems, metaphysical practice and visual arts.STEPHEN FROST frostnepsis@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603786704741831625noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962923230919080808.post-33036380599901575072011-12-07T05:46:00.001-08:002012-07-01T15:20:19.030-07:00FALL SERIES I: THE LIGHT AND THE LONELY- 9.23.'11<br />
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Re-member, reader/viewer, remember the sensations you have viewing the image, reading the poem, and the more popular format of adventure/fantasy fiction that will follow in this Fall Series. Then let your unconscious re-member it- Re-compose image, poem, history to tell its real story, to have its real effect on you- you will do anyway! (From titillation to tragedy, the human heart rages, raves and roves in its search for true identity and peace.)<o:p></o:p><br />
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I came into this world before my parents began to tire out. I often seemed to fall short of usual measures- i.e., sports and finance. There was some talk about other gifts... But little of that until college. There, my world opened and grew exponentially. After that, there was the Church and Pilgrimage and Panikkar, Lancaster, Georgia in a line of fine religious and secular teachers!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Church people</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3607905238388153240#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> make terrible mistakes. So do secular altruists. When church people get it right, it is a magnificent thing- but they waste a lot of time socializing and politicking. It seems unavoidable. So it is with secular altruists. Better to just be ‘natural,’ use and support various social networks, ‘religious’ or ‘secular,’ to engage the fullness of the Spirit(s- Elohim) in solitude, and in commune. Such discourse requires a diplomatic dedication (and skill!) to ‘do no harm,’ yet still push through nonsense and dishonesty in oneself and others on a path of realization and ‘de-light.’ (Shamans have depended upon such 'light' from the beginning- in various spectrums.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the forests of metaphor that are human sensibility, here is one of those rare aspects that is literal, though not necessarily physically so. Lightfulness- what Christianity references as ‘a Light that casts no shadow’ and Buddhism notes in its “Clear Light’ realizations. Language, ideas, images can support this experience- but finally give way before it. In fact, it is this ‘visionary consciousness’ that forms and informs ‘sense’ itself: Language, ideas, images... The Lord is beyond form or content. We can’t do without, it seems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Believe in the Lord Christ (access), depend on the Lord Buddha (process), entertain with respect and 'honors of origin' Shamanistic Animism-- not without drawbacks as well, but it is our first great insight about the nature of being (along with discovery of tools) and no one knows Nature better-- the great, ineffable Sacrament of God’s Creation.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3607905238388153240#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">[2]</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"> </span> In this, Science comes to its fullness...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">***235. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 16px;">AFTER THE ACHEKALE-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 16px;">THE LEFT HAND PATH, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Acrylic on Canvas, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">20” x 16” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">2003-2012. SEE </span><a href="http://www8080.nepsis.com:8080/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=784">ACHEKALE</a>. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;">The title, "Strider", is from the ‘motion’ of this nature painting that reminds me of the movement of a Water Strider...Yet, as well, the painting still suggests a more cosmic ambience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"> The ‘dragon’ theme in these works is a reference to nature and our metaphysical, technological relationships with nature...</span><br />
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READER SHOULD ALSO REVIEW: <a href="http://ecai.org/NEPSIS/html/ART,%20MY%20ART....htm">http://ecai.org/NEPSIS/html/ART,%20MY%20ART....htm</a><br />
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</div>STEPHEN FROST frostnepsis@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603786704741831625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962923230919080808.post-80834183190076510902011-12-07T05:41:00.001-08:002012-01-04T14:51:55.994-08:00FALL SERIES II- 10.12.'11<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He stood in his familiar place, alien, feral. A long hunting knife gripped in his right hand, dripping its dark red violence to bare, calloused feet upon the uneven stones of a fenceless yard.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Unable to scream, he stood frozen having gazed too long upon the sin of his survival within—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The main house on this same property was built in the ‘40s as a retirement cabin above and to the east a bit of the separate root cellar.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is owned now by a Roman Catholic religious order as a place of private retreat for priests and nuns.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sister Mary was the elderly caretaker.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She enjoyed the place and its solitude-- and the view, sometimes harsh, sometimes magnificent across hundreds of miles of open desert. Her door was only hundreds of feet from the patio and cave/studio rented by this quiet, tall man—runner, writer and translator of ancient religious texts whose rent paid most of the expenses for keeping such a house.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sister Mary had become friends with this scholar/athlete during his time there.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They kept to themselves mostly, but proximity brought a crossing of paths- and a kindly friendship evolved between nun and young scholar.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jack Hartley had finished his first Ph.D. at 18 when he was at Georgetown, quite the savant.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">His gift was recognized in kinder-garden and he was put in schools for the gifted early.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He finished his third doctoral degree by the age of 25.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">His father was valued as a manager of a ranch owned by a banker. The banker and his family lived in the exclusive enclave of San Marino next to Pasadena closely removed from downtown L.A.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But the ranch was not too far from town, about 50 miles.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The banker’s family spent weekends and holidays out at the ranch in the mountains north of L.A. where Condors still flew and Piru creek found its head waters. It was great for Christmas and summers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That’s where Jack grew up.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The banker had arranged for most of Jack’s special studies.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now in his 30’s, Jack still preferred the quiet reclusion of country near the tree line of these desert mountains well east of the ranch.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It was here that Jack wrote reports to the Vatican, his principal employer, as well as continuing his own research.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jack’s special fascination was languages, especially old languages like Sanskrit, or not-so-old languages like Aramaic, the language of Christ.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He helped keep the Vatican Curia up to date on recent scientific theories about ancient religions and the development of human culture.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">St. Andrew Benedictine monastery not far east of Jack’s cave apartment is located just close enough for him to faintly hear the bells that call the monks to prayer.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just above that, in sight of Sister’s patio, the magnificent huge boulders of the Devil’s Punch Bowl bump against one another, as the infamous San Andres Fault comes to the surface of the earth before it dives under these mountains. These mountains, punched up radically vertical from their own rugged foothills, protect coastal Los Angeles from the real desert to the northeast.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Maybe now, it’s the desert that needs protection...)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sister had often seen Jack testing the environment of his run as he stood before his early morning door, sometimes sipping a cup of coffee.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She smiled in these moments at her successful life of celibacy-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">his vigor and health, happy to have such a good neighbor and friend.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The years slowly twist her bones now- ankles bulge a bit and her brow has become more prominent above a still gracefully curved nose.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For her, muscles no longer regenerate.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What little fat ever was has fled the planes of her face and body.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She is the picture of an ancient matriarch, confident in her stance and the joy she believed was the underpinning of life.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As she puttered about with the usual morning chores of watering the garden before the day’s 100 degree+ heat arrived, she noticed Tom standing rigidly with arms out holding something in his right hand.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At first, she thought he was simply standing in prayer before Creation and she liked that, felt her influence might be having some effect on the rather too intellectual and practical young man.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But when she glanced up a bit later, she was just in time to see him bound across his patio and disappear down the side of the mountain, not in his usual sweats and expensive running shoes-- he was barefoot and naked but for his white boxers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well known and loved in this spread out community, she was taken in without hesitation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Though still shaken and terrified by what she had seen, she kept her mind about her as she recounted her story to neighbors and police.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before saying a word about it to anyone, she had decided to follow a tiny whisper in her mind and heart.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She steadfastly failed to mention that she had seen Jack Hartley at all that morning.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Or, what she had seen in the studio before she began to scream, or tried to run- just a large pool of blackening blood on the floor and the near total destruction inside the apartment. She did not say that she had seen the back wall of the cave/studio seem to move as if it were a door closing on a dusty hinge of light —hard to see through the flies, gloom and horror in that room, hard to imagine, much less understand.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She needed to think about all of this on her own.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What do you think it was?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Asked Celestine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Saying the name might attract its attention again.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I don’t want it coming back here.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Though the studio was still cordoned off and entered only by forensic personnel, all they had to examine was the wreck of the room inside and large black tracks of congealing blood.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Whatever, or whoever had bled there was gone by the time the police arrived.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sister Mary had decided that discretion was once again the better part and said nothing to neighbors or authorities about what made the smears of blood.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Only that she thought she had seen a body…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Artists process information differently than do intellectuals and other more pragmatic people. An artist, at least this artist, ‘takes in’ information for a long time, often intuitively choosing what is necessary for the ultimate artistic expression that results from such preparation. The artist can be involved in all kinds of occupations, including travel, metaphysical practice, labor and usually makes acquaintances in every quarter- at least this artist did. All of it feeds the inner vision/experience that will ultimately express itself in the art. Often the ‘inner experience’ is unrecognized until it does express and develop itself outside the artist.</div>
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This process might involve days, months or years. This series of presentations starting above with “Night Stream” and “Deadly Translations: Old Sister Mary and the Beast” is an example of an artistic process that uses both images and ideas; images, commentary, stories and poems to grind a lens through which to better perceive and form our lives.</div>
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‘Grind’ is a good word for this long process. It began as a dedicated intention in 1973. Now in the fall of 2011, I hope this series begun above will be the final integration of elements developed in the NEPSIS FOUNDATION: <a href="http://ecai.org/NEPSIS/">http://ecai.org/NEPSIS/</a></div>
</div>STEPHEN FROST frostnepsis@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603786704741831625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962923230919080808.post-5311003485275747242011-12-07T05:37:00.001-08:002012-01-05T07:46:09.389-08:00FALL SERIES III: Goddess Rising- 10.19.'11<br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;">From NEPSIS FOUNDATION Table of Contents, SECTION III: EAGLE ROCK: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">February, 2006. After an unplanned drive from the Pacific Ocean to NE Arizona- (the motivations for this drive are too long a story to be included here). As I approach Spider Rock, a huge natural stone tower in Canyon de Chelly, AZ, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">I find myself </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">to be in tears. Tears of mourning for the deaths of my mother and brother the previous fall. And I’d had a worrisome dream Christmas morning about my mother in the afterlife. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">I’d made little offerings at this place because Grandmother Spider, a creator deity, is reputed to live there. I’m a believing Roman Catholic priest, but I still respect old insights and symbols about deity. Many visits in the past produced nothing unusual. This time, Grandmother Spider took over my consciousness, and indicated I should look up the right hand canyon- (Canyon de Chelly splits just there at Spider Rock). I did so. And there Changing Woman, a benevolent Navajo deity, appeared standing behind my mother. My mother was protected (saved) and holding a box with golden light inside. She was well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Intellectually, it interests me that a believing Catholic can experience a complete transliteration of a salvific moment. That is, my mind and heart were much comforted, but spontaneously translated a salvific intuition into another religion's symbols and divinities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Its like St. Bernadette when she first envisioned the “Beautiful Woman” Only later did the then controversial teachings about the Blessed Mother’s “Immaculate Conception” become identified with that series of visions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Psyche of nature: As well, there are what the Irish call “thin places.” That is, the 'other' world comes closer to this world in certain places. Spider Rock is one such place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">My mother, Georgia, and I visited another such place, a place of ‘energies,’ shortly after the summer solstice, 1996.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> We arrived at night. This place can be approached by car to within 500 yards. I drove slowly, looking for a place off the dirt road to stop. In the summer, this place is all dust and scrubby sage. But, the twilight moments of dawn and dusk are precious and the place radiates a peculiarly pure, psychic energy. As I rolled to a stop, a <b>bright light flashed</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> from the outcrop of rocks that is the center of these energies. The brief flash of light in the night was as tall as a house. I stopped the car pointed towards the rocks. We were anxious about who might be at this forsaken place this time of night to make such a light. Local Indian shamans? There is a reservation nearby. Skin walkers? The Holy Ones? Such flashes of light are said to accompany some shamanistic activities. As I considered this, my companion said, "The car is moving." "No, it's not," I replied. Moments passed. "The car is moving." "No, it's not," somewhat impatiently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Then, I noticed that the <b>car <i>was</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b> moving</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. Sliding back and forth. Front to back. Without the benefit of gravity! The overwhelming sensation was that of the 'other' world. This was as clear as any other sensation might be; fear, love, joy, who can calculate its measure or prove the experience except by the consensus of witness. This time, someone was with me and shared a significant paranormal event. This had not been the case in the past for other such experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Though, the sensation of the moment was powerful, there was no sense of hostility. Just power and otherness. We decided that perhaps we did not need to be there. In fact, should not be there. We were intruding somehow. So, we backed out and drove slowly away. We became anxious to be away from there. Very... Away from that <i>power</i></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> that seemed so strong and unfamiliar. About ten miles back on that dirt road, there is a farmstead. We both felt that if we could get past that point, back in human surroundings, we would be OK. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">But, then, as we drove along, I heard a strong hissing noise. It became louder and louder. I stopped the car to investigate. I had a flat. As I fixed it, it began to rain. We were in the northern Nevada desert in July. Rain is not impossible there, but not likely. Now it poured down. And at that anxious moment! The tire fixed, we continued our escape. We focused on looking for the farm, after which it is another ten miles to the paved road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Then, all of a sudden, we were at the intersection with the paved highway. <u>We did not pass the farm. We arrived at the pavement much too soon. </u>And<u> as soon as we got there, the rain stopped</u>. Both of us had been looking for the farm. You can't miss it, since the road goes right through the barnyard. It has the only light in the area. <b>Trans-temporal-spatial-relocation?</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Both of us would not have missed such an obvious landmark as the farmyard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">It seemed as if some local spirit or deity laughed in the night. On another, earlier occasion, I perceived in my mind's eye, that the "spirit" of Eagle Rock looked like a series of vertical serpentine rods of golden white light. Like the Seraphim. But on that occasion, they simply hovered above the rocky crag, approving the one I brought there for initiation into these "mysteries." At the conclusion of that initiation, I clapped my hands above his chthonic chakras as he lay across those rocks. Simultaneously, lightening ignited the mountainous horizon in the distance, followed by thunder. Perfect timing, if unexpected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Now, it was as if the seraphs hovered majestically for hundreds of square miles above the valley. Easily filling that vast emptiness, they "sing the glory of God in creation."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">After traveling for a week with a friend in northern California, 1985, I had a surprising dream. In the dream, on a grassy hill there is an exotic pavilion, a tent. I approach. Through the tent flap, I see a young man, lying naked on a bed, legs dangling over the bedside. He seems to be waiting for me. The situation is spread with attraction and danger. The young man lay on some softly lit, rich fabric covering the bed. A boy/man. A young adult. I approach more closely-- I nurse suckle the (energetic) milk from him as I spread further his muscular, no longer hairless, legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The scene of the dream shifts to a large procession. A group of aristocratic looking women in medieval or renaissance garb move from behind the tent toward a river below and distant mountains. A thunderstorm is building and threatening above and behind the mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The metaphor of the flood was not negative at all. I was inundated with something remarkably positive. The important and surprising point of this dream is that when I awoke, <b>I was</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <b>flooded with an energy of enormous delight. </b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Energy far beyond sexual ecstasy. For hours after I woke, sensations of ebullient joy flowed through me. Not just joy, but energy. Flowing, endless energy. For weeks after, if I told the story or even remembered the dream, I would again be suffused in delight. What enabled me to evoke these levels of light-filled delight? The erotic elements in the dream? Not exactly. <b>I believe that the dream indicated a shift between masculine</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <b>and feminine poles in my psyche that engaged states of consciousness</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <b>flooded with amorphous, transsexual (transcendent of opposites) delight.</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Such states of consciousness might be the foundation of culture as well, since such dualistic (pluralistic) states and their resolution/transcendence are, I believe, the underlying content and construct of human perception. Homoerotic love is an example since it is able to evoke feelings in individuals as powerful as the heterosexual drive to procreate. The biological urge to propagate in any species, characterizes and indicates a capacity to redirect major elements of human personality. The homoerotic emotion indicates a condition free of otherwise inexorable biological logic. The feminine, the earth, and the storm, are evoked here, I suspect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The homoerotic emotion is a catalytic strain laced through the psychic structure of human kind, perhaps the whole biological universe. It is a dangerous and invaluable alternative, the experience of which is fraught with endless social problems. If it were not very potent, why would people react so strongly to what really seems to be, otherwise, a minor issue. Only a few topics generate the level of vitriolic bigotry that this topic manages to arouse. The prohibitions against it in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are vague in that they probably are reactions against flagrant practices in erotic religious cults of cultures surrounding the authors of the Old and New Testaments--the negative reaction thus being as much xenophobic as homophobic. After all David loved Jonathan "more than women." Jesus Christ, who supersedes all previous God/World agreements, for Christians, said little about sex at all--but forgave the one caught in sin by sinners--much less about the homoerotic emotion-- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">except perhaps secretly to St. John. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">What I am treating here is the homoerotic emotion, not Gay culture. That is something else for a different discussion. Here we merely discuss an important, powerful element in human perception.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The problem might be in the deeper construct of culture. Many cultures in the past 5000 years, since the development of civilizations and empires, have been so characterized by masculine domination and willful progress, as to be trapped in their own pathology of aggression. It is a situation increasingly, violently, out of balance. As the corporate, universal order of the world subconsciously tries to balance itself, individuals respond in the most remarkable ways. Perhaps Gay culture is such a response. I believe the more universal, homoerotic emotion certainly is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">FURTHER SPECULATION: The dualistic powers that govern the biosphere are called upon to save it. These opposite elements are but an expression of the inexpressible Godhead. Poisons become elixirs, in the right circumstances, with certain personalities. Sexuality and violence are closely related reactions that inherently seek the Eden of union, balance and radiant beauty in all things-- sometimes they just react. ...the natural world is reeling from traumatic blows being struck against it by militant profiteering and commercial technology. Profit and security are the motives now that dominate the dominant value structures in the world: Security in a world increasingly insecure. Profit in a world increasingly bereft of natural resources, as vast populations, dazed by suffering, mourn their own fruitful increase. Is there a way to respond to this sad demise of the natural world, our deep spiritual relationship with it? Is there a way beyond the rational sanctity of humanist virtue and religion that has so far failed to save us from the raging </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">human heart?</span></div>
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Before an embryo differentiates into male or female, the sex organs are the same. This painting reflects upon the capacity for coitus and the ecstatic drives that propagate species...
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It was twenty or more years earlier that Father Robillard had been summoned to the office of the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles. This office was the soul of rich simplicity. Dark wooden, paneled walls with sparely spaced European art masterpieces. Father Robillard‘s heart sank when the archbishop asked him to become the Exorcist for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, California. In those days, before Vatican II, every priest was ordained an exorcist. But there was always a special priest to face these special cases. Such a person had to be completely upright in faith and morals. Such a person had to be without stain or weakness—or at least to have reached a degree of humility so as to be empowered by the Holy Spirit not to be easily fooled by the lie of Sin or sins—his own and others. Such a person had to have personal, spiritual power: To have been chosen, to have taken-in the Spirit—literally to breathe in holiness with every breath. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>STEPHEN FROST frostnepsis@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603786704741831625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962923230919080808.post-88748245840022980532011-12-07T05:30:00.001-08:002011-12-11T09:17:52.786-08:00FALL SERIES VI: OLD MARY AND THE BEAST- 11.08.'11<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">Feelings, images, ideas, sensations</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">Who is empty.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">The Great Fecund Void</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">THE BIG BANG!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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This painting references the final three years of my initiation as a mystic—with Georgia. (See Nepsis Foundation Table of Contents, Section III: "Resolution") 'Seeker..." also references our many trips to Egypt, the Spinx, Luxor and Karnak, etc., and on our final journey, the Oracle of Siwa. Implied here is a conjuring of dark spirits. Not evil, per se. Rather, here we engage the Spirit of Dark Matter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An important influence in my studies has been the 'Genius Loci,' the Spirit of Place(s), and through that the engorged idea of a World Spirit or Soul. Here is something more than a rational extrapolation that posits ‘if places and objects are animated by some kind of spiritual presence, incarnation or psyche, then Dark Matter also might share such vitality.’ Here is an encounter with such or other entities from a vast universe as they might be perceived through the vales of human perception...<o:p></o:p></div>
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The psyche of the world makes itself known in various figures. In the making of this painting, I was blocking in areas of color in preparation for another in a series of "nature" paintings inspired by a backpacking trip in the High Sierras. Suddenly, I noticed that I had unconsciously painted this figure that identified with other paranormal, psychic phenomena to which I have been witness.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3607905238388153240#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span></a></div>
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People like what they know from school best, I think. Or maybe what they see in Church or on PBS: Ideas, images, feelings… material plots, intrigue. But you are not going to recognize what follows. You will be changed if you keep reading. And people prefer their education to be what they expect. But don’t let me get discouraged just yet. You might do better than I expect. People often do-- when needs arise. I was astounded when I discovered these materials. I’m just warning you that there is little in mainstream culture that will prepare you for what you are to read: About<o:p></o:p></div>
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And how archetypically American that we should have first explored our love in that dusty barn on the family's ranch in Southern California. Then, days were still smog free. Clear, clean heat waves rose from the broken pavement of the road. Small herds of cattle rested, chewing beneath scattered trees on the dry hills. Dry stack of alfalfa bales stored in that hot barn and covered with the old horse blanket was our prickly, uncomfortable bed for those early explorations. Sometimes the alfalfa stems and leaves would get caught in our clothes, between our sweaty legs. The cows didn't care. They would eat it anyway afterwards. We were so young when we first started but we didn't get serious until much later. Not serious. No, that’s not the word. "It" became a terrifying compulsion. Compulsion? Not exactly that either...<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 14pt;">"Dark Lady" is an image of "chilling" presence, according to some. This work simply presents an essential, though dark element of mystical consciousness. This is a sculptural painting in a series of large partitions, at least two sided, meant to operate on two levels: 1. It represents a means of passage between two ‘worlds.’ 2. It is a spiritually or psychically catalytic object aiding in that passage. It helps effect that shift of consciousness to a specific category of ‘other’ states. See also #37, #70 and #80- <a href="http://ecai.org/NEPSIS/ImageCatalog-PrimarySet/index.html"><span style="color: #0030dd; text-decoration: none;">http://ecai.org/NEPSIS/ImageCatalog-PrimarySet/index.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">The text of our story, MOTHER MARY AND THE BEAST, was discovered as follows: "I found the following scraps of a story among the belongings of a relative who had passed away. I was the executor of her estate. We fell under the spell of the story that arises from these scraps. I suspect others will too. Though both my wife and I were completely mystified by the content. There was a stack of journals, but many of the pages are missing or illegible from both fire and water. Still, there is enough left. I’ve divided the contents of the scraps numerically. A new number indicates a new legible discovery. They seem to have been written as a diary. Parts read like a novel. And there were some cards and letters hidden between the pages. But because of the letters and certain other bits of evidence, I suspect that this is less fiction than autobiography. You’ll see as we go along. My relative’s personality unfolds in a most unexpected way. One would not expect such violence and intrigue in the life of such a beautifully holy, Roman Catholic nun as we knew her to be! Nor could we have guessed that just reading somebody’s journal would have changed our lives, would have put us in such danger… We think the public needs to know about this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">… My next topic of coalescence involves an old concern that is not so positive. In fact, it has been an issue of troubling fascination and contention. But it also concerns important changes in our cosmological point of view. I suppose it started with the trials and tribulations of Fr. Chris Anderson in Orange County over ten years ago. Though my studies have been concerned with larger academic areas, i.e., the character of personal identity formatted in the constructs of culture and religions, a small but important aspect of this study is sexual identity. This includes hetero- and homo-eroticism as well as some anthropologically verified complexes that might now be illegal, but in some cases at least, might be something quite other than abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">My suspicion is that some people involved in what could be determined to be "molestation" legally might be operating in response to an <u>irresistible anthropological imperative.</u> It's not that there are not real sex offenders. But, in the tragic readjustment of nature beneath the overwhelming construct of technocracy, certain natural psycho/physical dynamics in human nature long thought necessary for human personality and society, now are considered to be illegal, even abusive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">I'm not advocating a campaign here. Nor, am I refuting current moral systems. I'm simply directing you towards mitigating anthropological data ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">What I have discovered is that outside the consideration of real psychosis, this dynamic of adult males initiating adolescent males into manhood sexually, ritually, culturally, and spiritually, is common in the history of cultures and religion. Common not only long ago in primordial cultures but up through classical eras, in Greco-Roman times, then on and off, here and there up to our own period. This issue in such cosmologies, typical then, reflects a bisexual origin in the </span><span style="font-family: Times-Italic; font-size: 16pt;"><i>non-temporal</i></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;"> source of all things, godhead itself (or at least in male chromosome count—males have both "X" and "Y" chromosomes.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">It was readings of Taoist Chi-gung energy manuals coupled with a secondary Greek myth about Dionysius* having to "submit 'like a woman' to a phallus made from a fig tree, in order to free his mother from Hades." Perhaps that means to liberate masculine and feminine creative energies. Further, it was this combined with the long held awareness about Shamanistic practices of initiation insisting on some degree of trans-sexual ordeal; and Animistic cultures that include homo-erotic interludes for all young men coming of age, that finally made me understand this in such a clear and positive way. (I don't know about young women. Nature enforces the change to adulthood in them physically when they start to menstruate!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">In the Taoist source, it was made clear that orgasm starts at the prostate gland in both hetero- and homosexual experiences. According to Tantric (Tibetan Buddhist and Hindu) sources, it is yogic stimulation of these areas that awakens the Goddess* who is in command of all creative light, energy, and power in the universe. If these psychic/spiritual physiologies are accurate at all, and there is considerable positive evidence in that regard, then it is no wonder that so many creative and religious people are often subject to this experience, ala poor Dionysius. No wonder gay people enjoy anal sex so much. Besides the intimacy, it seems for some to evoke light filled energy, as well as visionary, poetic, and artistic sensibilities. The above mentioned cultures were all cultures that valued such sensibilities highly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Still, the poignant political and spiritual question is; why does this issue evoke such a hysterical response now? It is beyond all reason. Why is this "abomination" cited from the Old Testament Book of Leviticus and the rest of that book often ignored? This issue in St. Paul's "Letters" is exploited religiously by some who consider the Scriptures as absolute authority, while the fact that the great saint was completely wrong about the much more important--most important Parusia, tends to be over looked. Christ, it seems, did not say anything about the topic, or very much about sex generally, according to the Gospels. I wonder why the crisis now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">This is, of course, besides the vast amounts of money some people have made off the Church, pressuring conformity to more to positivist and commercial values.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">...I'm not saying that there are not real sex offenders who should be "outed" --but for the career advancement for journalists, District Attorneys and Sheriffs whose public careers depend on or profit from media attention? These cases are heavily prejudiced by such elements. I think that within the sexual revolution of our era is an over-reaction that is nothing less than a hatred--or at least a repression--of Christ's own metaphysical practice of celibacy, and therefore ours. It amounts to a curtailment of religious freedom...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Well, why beat a dead horse. The image of Spartan soldiers and Roman legions come to mind from societies in which the homo-erotic experience was common, as a disclaimer to any 'kinder, gentler' rule that might claim homo-eroticism as a guarantee to the moderation of aggression. The scientific discernment of psychology seems permanently divided on the topic. Too bad scientific detachment is not further extended into cultural norms. The only identity we are willing to accept generally is the current norm. As if there were nothing else worthwhile and never has been. Where is the freedom in that? Especially, as our perception is limited more and more by materialistic marginalization of any form of metaphysical practice or cosmological sensibility such as represented by celibacy--and along with it compassion for the elderly, the unborn, the poor, the weak, any marginalized group not economically or politically strong enough to protect itself!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">When I asked a psychologist friend once long ago if homosexuals are sick in this regard, he responded "some are, some aren't." I know people who will not appreciate my tying this issue to ancient religious Steveterns or the psychic and spiritual energy systems of Asia (that have codified the physio/spiritual elements including this area of concern). But it's not just Asia. Billions of people around the world, Christian and non-Christian, believe in these body/mind/spirit systems that seek to balance the dualistic energies--empty/full, hot/cold, male/female, etc. This includes the American government and the American Health Insurance industry that is willing to pay for such (</span><span style="font-family: Times-Italic; font-size: 16pt;"><i>chi)</i></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;"> energy based therapies as acupuncture!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">I suppose that this issue cannot be decided without developing a cosmology that fully and compassionately integrates all the elements of psyche and nature, science and culture in some healthier light. We are not a world of individuals, but an animate body constituted by nature and Spirit. I fear for our poor culture and the world. These issues are veiled sympSteves, both in individuals and whole peoples, of profound inner and organizational conflict. Other sympSteves increase as well; human starvation has doubled to 1 billion in the last decade, for instance--The implications reach into the eco-system itself since technocracy re-defines our role in nature. To deny the sacred nature of the world, is like denying the humanity of slaves, a common tactic that makes exploitation possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Bishop, I thought that it would be important to keep you informed about my more pithy reflections, so that you might help, if you like, to guide their development as time passes. And so that you may have a fuller reservoir of reference when it comes to making decisions about... well, you know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Another controversial issue that I should mention before I conclude regards pornography, or at least, the appearance of pornography. Though I might find this topic a little unnerving, like the topic above, I believe there to be a communication of great significance in the attention paid to these matters now. It might bode ill indeed if we fail to hear what is said in this whispering, this 'tiny sound.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Since </span><span style="font-family: Times-Italic; font-size: 16pt;"><i>physiology</i></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;"> is as unavoidable as </span><span style="font-family: Times-Italic; font-size: 16pt;"><i>cosmology</i></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;"> in the study of the history of religion, sex remains central. Not just because of the implications of biology, but also because so much of our psychological and emotional time-spent sensibility is focused on sexually related matters. Let me sum up my consideration of these topics by reference to a recently published novel, VOX, by Nicholson Baker. The whole of this work is graphically explicit telephone sex. Heterosexual sex. To tell the truth, I was rather embarrassed by much of the conversation that is this book. But at the same time, admired the honest depiction of a process that ended up not in an orgasm of cheap titillation, but something else. Through the arousal came a human voice reaching--through the ether--for relationship. And that is what is accomplished. Space, matter and technology are transcended--or justified!--by being the medium in which friendship developed. Physiology rephrased. Something quite human happened, beyond any of the isolated elements of this encounter. Not that something positive is usually the product of pornographic excursions. Obviously. But what is one looking for in this sort of experience. Satisfaction? What is the process that leads to an oh-so-relational whole, the Eucharist--the Body of Christ. Popular understanding of religion, and perhaps as often the very idealistic expression of the tail-end of a cathartic process—i.e. becoming holy--does not always sufficiently credit the process involved. The "end" of religious practice is a state of being in which 'adultery--and every other deception--does not even arise in one's heart.' If VOX describes what I believe it does, i.e., a process of salvation--real temporal/non-temporal relationship--is not such an open approach to human spiritual realization justifiable? In this, I do not believe that I am mixing major and minor premises. Friendship is friendship. If that is with God or neighbor should make no difference. Love cannot be partial, except that we experience it partially until we advance to its divine fullness. That being the case, then our psychosomatic processes are the very means, not the obstacle, to such fullness. Certainly such an open, yet completely localized means might be more widely approachable. Or, I should say, it is an approach more widely practiced. This is especially so, since we all receive a scientific education, more or less. So, the ancient body taboos have less impact now. I realize that most of us, culture itself, needs parameters. Though as well, most of us are just lazy, preferring a nice, clear rule to keep or break, to the hard work of honesty and salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Eminence, I've "studied" these issues for at least the past ten years, sometimes at great personal cost. I hope they have some value for people and the Church. My own fascination with these topics quiets down, now that I've come to some better understanding for myself. I will pursue it no further as before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">P.S. *Gods or Goddesses indicate an anthropomorphized sensibility about the participation of every moment, power and place in the divine condition. In the context of this memorandum, 'gods' refer to archetypal figures that engage a fuller spectrum of human perception. For "How Dionysius Saved His Mother From Hell" reference, see Halpern, Paul. <u>The Cyclical Serpent</u>, Plenum Press, New York, 1995. Also see, Williams, W. L. <u>The Spirit and the Flesh</u>. Beacon Press, Boston, 1986. For Shamanistic initiation, see "Introduction" in <u>Shamanism</u>, Eliade, M.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 10pt;">* I suppose that what generated particular interest in these questions is that a priest friend, Fr. Chris, was accused of molestation. I was shocked not only by his experience but by the degree of hysteria and opportunism in the public response. That commenced for me a ten-year investigation that has led to the surprising conclusions above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Paranormal phenomenon is not taken very seriously in most critical commentary on mysticism. However, examples are usually included in the gospels of the world. (See ‘Sarx and Soma’ the Carnal and Natural- Chastity, Caritas, and the Diamond Sutra.) As well, any treatment of Shamanism must include sorcery, though it is often a small aspect of larger traditions. PRAYERS OF PETITION --i.e. seeking some change in the world from a spiritual agency--are universal, even among ‘unbelievers’ under duress and bear a striking similarity to the rituals and spells of sorcery. The Nepsis Foundation is rife with paranormal phenomena, but these examples are the spin-offs of a more religious vocation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">I just cast an </span><span style="font-family: Times-Italic; font-size: 16pt;"><i>I Ching </i></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">to see if that Chinese Oracle might have some insight about our challenges. It said something about the judicious use of poisons. How, in the right dose and circumstance, poisons become medicine. Very strange. I’m not sure what it means. #57, if you are interested to look it up. Yes, Yes, I know you don’t approve our use of these non-Christian ‘scriptures’ and the Old Testament prohibits such things as oracles. But some of these traditions contain great wisdoms that the people who wrote the Old Testament could never have guessed, and if some is true, wise, good or beautiful then, it is of Christ. Christ is the New Covenant, the New Testament supercedes the Old for Christians, the Gospel trumps the rest of the scriptures and the Church is the living tradition—and except for a handful of issues, leaves most questions up to an informed conscience. After all, the very fact that Jesus was thought to be the Son of God radically separated him from his own Old Testament tradition and moved him into the religious mainstream of surrounding cultures. He takes all of it to another level entirely and opens up the world of God’s creation to His inspiration.... To say the Spirit only operates through one institution we call the Vatican Curia, or the World Council of Churches, or whatever, is blasphemy. Rather, where the Spirit operates —and that is everywhere-- is the Church. There is great insight in these old systems of hard won wisdoms. Especially, I find this to be true of … Well, sorry Sister, for the rant. Nonetheless, that’s the way of the future if we are true to His Way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">I will send this letter to your post office box for safety’s sake. I wouldn’t want it to get in the wrong hands as it might if I send it to at your residence in the Motherhouse. Perhaps you should even destroy it after you’ve read it. Though, no one will believe what I am about to tell you in any case. This will be waiting for you when you return from Rome. I can’t tell you what I suspect on the phone. There must be some record of what’s happening, just in case something happens to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Brother says that apparently she has learned how to travel through the sacred caves of the world using the radio wave-like psychic transmissions of underground gem-troves for her travel schedule. Everybody used to tease you about being named after a pagan prophesy about psychic energies rather than a saint. Extrapolating on those books, the psyche of the earth is made up of energy Steveterns and the crystal gem troves underground are like nerve clusters. So many of them have been ruined by mining, but there are still deep secret places and routes that might be used by the ones with enough knowledge and personal power. To tell the truth, I’m not so sure that’s how it works, anymore than sex is the basis of magic, which is what some believe. There are other energies, as well as the Spirit. But that’s the lore. Perhaps it’s metaphoric. But it works for these people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">And then there is the anthropology. Benedict says that many cultures of the past that not only accepted homosexuality, but considered it an honor when a grown man would help initiate a post pubescent adolescent boy into sexuality and it magics. That’s what Benedict says, though he’s very conservative about the question and considers it evil. I also have read the studies. It does not have to be interpreted or practiced in an evil way. The transsexual was considered magical, often considered protected by God. Of course, most of the abuse cases involve heterosexuals. But it’s the gay ones that get most of the attention and blame. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">There’s Brother Benedict now. Let’s meet next week. I’m anxious to know what you found in the Vatican Library. I will mail this in L.A. Have a good thought for us, my friend, to be empowered to face the Enemy with kindness and courage and intelligence. You have some idea what we are up against now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">“After traveling for a week with a friend, John… in northern California, I had a surprising dream. In the dream, on a grassy hill there is a pavilion tent. I approach. Through the tent flap, a young man, lying naked on a bed, legs dangling over the bedside, seems to be waiting for me. The situation is spread with attraction and danger. The young man lay on some softly lit, rich fabric covering the bed. A boy/man. I approach more closely-- I nurse/suckle the (energetic) milk from him as I spread further his muscular, but no longer hairless, young legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">What? Hmmm… Oh. Yes, well… It was OK. A little scary, really. There was someone else with the Cardinal when I walked in. I’m surprised they let me in while he was there. Maybe the receptionist didn’t know he was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">No, I think not. Aren’t all these delusionary mental palaces of yours- all these theories- really just a denial that you are remarkably unsuccessful in love? That you really wanted a relationship with me and maybe others and it never worked? Be honest, Jack. I just didn’t want a physical relationship with you. First, I prefer women and second, I really want to be celibate. For God. For the Church. For the People of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">You will be surprised to know that, yes, I do believe that you want to be celibate, as I do, and for the very same reasons that you mention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Yes, but how we practice that, how we pursue it, is different. You repress. I work through. And my ideas about the people of God and the Church are a lot broader than yours. I do definitely intend to get to the ideal, but in a more healthy and creative way. Shamanism...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">Come on Jack! Stop with all this—‘shamanism.’ You are a homosexual or at least a bi-sexual and you refuse to accept your own dysfunction. Why can’t you just accept it. You’ve never been able to form a mature relationship with any woman but your mother. All your shamanism was just a psychological escape from the wreckage of that very modern battle between your mother and father that you project as a universal conflagration. All that fighting when you were a kid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">No, Steve. Don’t you see? It wasn’t just affection and a kind of physical bonding that we exchanged when we were young. It was an awakening of deeper parts of who we are. It didn’t really have anything to do with our sexual orientation. It had to do with... well, don’t you remember how dismayed we were after the first time? How shocked? We didn’t even talk for weeks. But then, we continued. Don’t you remember, how at one point, I ‘saw’ into you. Saw your real vocation. I saw what took you months, or was it years, in therapy with that psychiatrist of yours. That’s when you really panicked. And broke it off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">or more, a WORLD SOUL, a localization of GRACE. The concept that there is a world soul or psyche is communicable within the human psyche. We ignore it to our peril. The realm of the psyche, also of </span><span style="font-family: Times-Italic; font-size: 16pt;"><i>Chi</i></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;">, is the Unified Field. That unifying matrix is the topic of religion through the ages. Though, either in religion or science, that field of vision is limited by its own semantic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Find here today, the conclusion of this story about
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I first encountered the psyche of nature there, the spirit of the place, whispers of the world's divine energies. Our psyche is conjured of the same stuff. Before I was in school I was hungry for culture and fascinated by art. I think I largely ignored school, got by, nothing wrong with education. As a matter of fact, I'm all for it. But so much energy goes into socialization--and socializing. So much time, just socializing. But in spite of the passage of times, that character of where I was raised, out away from the suburbs and … away from much human passage at all-- though, Wells Fargo used to run their stage-coaches past our place and through its air and remarkable natural herbal fragrance. In autumn I was there to admire the jet trails across the clouds and blue refractions…<o:p></o:p></div>
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…was grounded early in the earth charkas. Exposed to its mysteries. Psychic energies that are the ambience and means of passage through… but those are stories of early exploration of the physics of my body and the body of creation. One's own inner vastness and powers… That comes from the furthest dark matter of deep, deepest outer space…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Proportion is the metaphysical exercise. It does not matter how much yoga or asceticism, except it be enough, perfectly enough for some purpose, for one's personal chemistry so to speak…<o:p></o:p></div>
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My intention is the intention of high religion: To save the world. From what, or for what, is not always perfectly clear, except that there are certain problems that threaten the biosphere--no not just that--there are real problems that threaten Godhead itself! In the world, as in you and each part the whole… God makes the world out of himself, no words to describe. … not existence but consciousness. Can it be that the divine spirit i.e. what we experience as pure consciousness can be threatened? Would existence still be, if consciousness were finally eradicated--the contemporary technocratic system has reduced human experience to a much narrower and pragmatic materialism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are now in the forth age. The most dangerous… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Freedom, freedom from gangsters would be nice, especially from those who are always waving the flag or shaking the Cross.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You know the problems, environmental problems, issues of justice. Nature has rights as well as people. Dear God, there are too many people…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Huge raindrops drink up the dry, miniscule cavities in the cement and red brick Patio-- summer monsoon. Seasonal rain in this desiccated country. That is the 'the way,' that is the relationship. That's my youth. Things like that. That’s the value that I learned…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then I went to school/university. I was very impressed with writing, classical music and art. And biology, of course.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then the monastery: Different values there-- I remember Brother Benedict hugely sweeping down in full monastic garb of black cape over black Benedictine robes of obedience and stability that cold Advent night to greet my parents and I with my suitcase.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I thought there was a love of art there. The love of art there was more tolerance, a romantic fervor in some cases. More than that really, but always second to the lifestyle. The value there was their lifestyle. The Hours, silence, rhythms of waiting, cycles of prayer and spiritual reading, relationships of quality, a system of authority that allows for personal growth along a particular channel to the sea... Return to the origin …splendor--doesn't usually feel splendid. But there are moments of vaulting splendor and unqualified, non-physical intimacy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This dissertation marches along a timeline, but some of the moments along the way engorge to meanings that make life bearable, even enthused-- (Little bits of that tied to a myth and/or sacred scripture and tradition and the offer to help raise your children and the promise of salvation, --release from guilt, failure, passion, is the backbone of modern pop religion.) Real Salvation is always at hand every moment. Nobody owns it. Access is the issue. Most don't have a clue, all have the capacity for it. 'The Kingdom really is at hand.' We live in the presence of God, if you like. Every moment is the end time. --and begins with unspeakable sentience. But few want it that much right away… until each realizes one's need for it. <i>It</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is as much a part of oneself, the character of self, as is the heart or brain any other organ or appendage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But the monasteries are fragile places--can't handle much variation from their norms in a hostile culture. But at least they maintain a strong core of singular beauty with all its facets to catch the light. Easily abused...<o:p></o:p></div>
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Variation seems to be the nature of life. Expansion and maintenance. The monastic vision is to maintain and conserve--that one may know… and know deeply the source of life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, that's the extent of my concern for the current expression of our human project. Now pre-imminent drives and personal <i>gen loci</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> demand my attention:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Our experiment, a response to these horrors has produced some remarkable occasions, horrors of their own. Co-incidents if you like, that alter the world's course. But so far seem to have affected the cancer of human existence very little. There is still some hope from the little ones. Categories of little things like virus and bacteria. Or such self-destructions as cancer--A firm mystery that there's still hope in tragedy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sex Magic, Tantra and the Holy Spirit. All turned to the service of the world; the Great Basin and the disciple (be wary of disciples…) Freedom (The fiction of freedom?) Freedom to channel all one's personal energies into service. Freedom to do what's right with the experience and hope for the Holy Spirit to channel those energies in its will--It has been my helping spirit after all, my familiar, most powerful magic after all…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Am I responsible for the disasters? My bishop and my father dead from massive heart attacks, our family's house up in flames, the hotel in Mazatlan gutted, the studio in Venice, California, leveled to the ground, the Navaho boy--dead as he is, and the near sex of it-- Then, the Circle K across the street: All inexplicably destroyed when touched by the poisonous drink of this spell. Well, no, of course they are just co-incidents after all…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let's back up a bit. As a successful, smart, Hollywood movie producer once remarked, "...your book has some brilliant things in it, but it rambles, it roams, it circles, it meanders, and it really goes nowhere..." However, a famous, world class scholar remarked about this work: 'it is just this labyrinthine fantasy, this tortuously circuitous, often obscure expression and re-expression of an inner experience, turning again and again in on itself, that is the success of the pilgrimage, art and stories. It is exactly as real symbols of the inner processes of this ‘erring way’ that the art has its meaning.' <o:p></o:p></div>
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The magic and sorcery is just spin off from an essential processes of enlightenment, of Kundalini yoga, from the earth chakras seeking union with of the celestial, Shivite sky chakras. So it is with science, compared to the core mysticism of the human quest--for 'a light that casts no shadow'--the ground and foundation of all things…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some of these explorations stray into formats of popular fiction as well as the more elite realms of art and critical theory to discover among other issues, how both popular and critical compassion is defeated by other less altruistic forces.<o:p></o:p></div>
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…Of concern is the wholesale destruction of the world’s natural resources and the sacred, wild places so important to human life both physically and spiritually. Witness the destruction of the rainforests worldwide at the rate of 5000 acres per day. What will be left of our world in 100 years, or even 50 years, if such technological power is not restricted? Bush's good science. The prognosis is diabolic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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…If religion has failed to convert the hearts of humankind as a species, science has succeeded in placing at the disposal of unconverted hearts power sufficient to destroy or corrupt our very gift of being. Nuclear holocaust might end up as preferable to biologically engineered warfare or endless capitalist/socialist exploitation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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… resolution results from the shamanic/priestly/artistic gift in the world--when such was not separated from science. This inherent "gift", I have come to believe, is a dimension of being. When this capacity is needed to balance, to heal, to save, it is, or can be, raised up….<o:p></o:p></div>
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…The point is to strike the sacred fire of the Divine and to startle us awake with our own divine presence. I intend that the shock of such ignition will appease the gods and set at rest the dragons set to devour us with our own unbalanced wit. (You might miss the ‘shock’ if you are not attentive. No matter. It happens anyway. Who?)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The <i>means </i><span style="font-style: normal;">that initiated this intention were pilgrimage, studies and service. The studies involve an exploration of Shamanism, Buddhism, especially Tantric Buddhism, and the Byzantine Christian Hesychasm--as well as contemporary Roman Catholicism, Christianity in general. Though I have had strong opinions about the differences and similarities of various religious tracts, finally I must leave that discussion in order to effect the salvific and shamanistic act of this project. I seek the way to ignite the Sacred Fire, the Love of God, Nirvanic Bliss, the Heart Sutra, and to sing the silent hymn of the Holy that heals, nourishes, creates, and satisfies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FINISHING UP</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">First,</span> these 9 paintings are earlier pieces unfinished until I moved to Chama Canyon, New Mexico, 2008- had time and space for them finally. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">Second,</span> a reminder: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Re-member, reader/viewer, remember the sensations you have viewing the images, reading the poems, and the more popular format of adventure/fantasy fiction this Fall Series blog, as well as the non-fiction narratives of the NEPSIS FOUNDATION. Then let your unconscious re-member it- Re-compose image, poem, history to tell its real story, to have its real effect on you! These elements are chosen for larger spiritual effect. But you are responsible for the quality of your composition"</span></div>
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Tying loose ends from DEADLY TRANSLATIONS, Mother Mary, The Beast, The Nepsis Foundation:</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. The timeless ground of our moment by moment existence is a familiar starting point in religious consideration-- but an experience of the 'other' reality is usually dismissed or forgotten immediately- certainly immediately translated into one's own religious vocabulary. (St. Bernadette is a perfect example...) The experience is familiar but also a surprise, always refreshing and subtle, so new that often it doesn't register- then later, one remembers!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. Evil is only understood by God. So leave it there. Everything else is in process and subject to redemption and enlightenment. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. A strange series of destructions: Primarily this phenomena is associated with the YEMEN EXPERIMENT of the <a href="http://ecai.org/NEPSIS/">Nepsis Foundation</a>- in particular The "Montana Ritual" during which the artist's father and bishop died from catastrophic heart attacks coincident with that rain ritual. There were also many other coincidental disasters. The following are also associated with these potent years of casting and conjuring:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> a. Father's house (family built over 20 years)-- one wall was 9' thick- was scraped from the face of the earth. Quite a surprise for us.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> d. Circle K across the street from artist's Huchuca apartment burst into flames during a casting... </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">See Paintings [139-145]</span></div>
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<b>1. To Be= More than existence, rather, all that is. Live=life + ing = Being in process, Being + Consciousness, the Divine Spark. Belief is necessary for the "integration of knowledge." I.e., union of this material world and the Divine world- that the two belong together.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> Three female divinities from Pueblo, Navajo and Bo-Po (Tibetan) world views. Holy Mary joins the group, chosen, holy and thus divine- 'of the divine' if you prefer. Who can speak of such Mysteries with finality but that it indicates a union of mundane and sacred states. Time is of course brought to its fullness and disappears. So, who or what comes first or highest is moot. Though it is interesting to contemplate that the word "God" is a mere symbol for this same Mystery. One might playfully suggest that Divinity itself derives from the Feminine as in the THEOTOKOS, Mother of God. Though it’s safer, and maybe truer to say that all things proceed from and return to Divine Mystery. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>February, 2006. After an unplanned drive from the Pacific Ocean to NE Arizona, I find myself, as I approach Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly, to be in tears of mourning for the deaths of my mother and brother the previous fall. I’d had a worrisome dream Christmas morning about my mother in the afterlife. I’d made little offerings at this place in the past because Grandmother Spider, a creator deity, is reputed to live there. I’m a Roman Catholic Priest, but I’m still reverent of the old insights and symbols ad well. Many visits in the past wherein nothing happened… This time Grandmother Spider took over my consciousness, and indicated I should look up the right hand canyon (Canyon de Chelly splits just there at Spider Rock). I did so. And there, benevolent Changing Woman, a Navajo deity, appeared standing behind my mother. My mother was protected (saved) and holding a box with golden light inside. She was well. See below for Bernadette.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>3. The grandeur and expanse of Spirit (and these Ladies) is referenced here by a "plains" image and jumps to the theory of "Branes" touching and thus evoking the moment of creation, the Great Bang in Astrophysics. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>4. Holy Bernadette 'scrabbled' in the dirt and chewed weeds before she dug out the Sacred Spring which became the Lourdes phenomenon. Clearly this is a shamanistic trance and ecstatic frenzy. As the first vision was of the feminine divine--a Beautiful Woman.” For some, the Great Goddess. Became a Roman Catholic vision afterwards. Some will be scandalized. What's the problem, except when the human heart needs to feel superior or unique or worse to despise others and vilify that which is not one's own. The Holy cannot be owned. Every person is unique. And the Immaculate Conception is also a beautiful doctrine. Is not a world-hating denial. Is affirmation of the union of Matter and Spirit, i.e., salvation. However, a distinction can be made between archetypes and supposedly historical humans… though only in a temporal vale. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>5. The answer to everything: Or, the "Six Yogas of Naropa's" Clear Light Realization might be considered along side Christian Light That Casts No Shadow-i.e. the Light of the Lamb- the ineffable light of Holiness/Grace/Divine Energy. <u>Visionary Consciousness</u>, root of images and ideas. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>7. Tree of Life. Central axis. Axis Pole around which reality turns. One's perception is always the center of the perceived universe. Many such references in history of religions. Even the most esoteric martial arts such as Pau Qua contain whispers of such a memory... <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>8./9. Bernadette again. The point being a universal excitement about the holy, the ineffable atemporal in it's ecstatic embrace. As well, once on a pilgrimage from California to a monastery in Greece, during which fasting was an important element, I was so hungry that I ate anise stalks growing along the road on which I was hitch-hiking. References ‘method’ in the Spiritual life- practice that evokes the spiritual encounter. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>12. Indicates shifting states on consciousness. Secular consciousness, confined as it is, shifts uncomfortably in its chair in the face of prayer and many religious traditions. Waking from the state(s) of consciousness necessary to understand or experience the vast spectrums of meaning, i.e Spiritual traditions, in our past- waking to the day to day banality of consumer societies, I use the word 'poof.' This is to indicate the disappearance of these states, but also to suggest an inadequate homage to certain kinds of homo-erotic personalities that have been vehicles of the sacred in the past instead of the 'abominations' mentioned in the Old Testament. Poofters are necessary...<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>freed from any lash of lines or plasma<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Quadrants of despair or struggle<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>long hair in wind<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>or water- disappear.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Any <i>impirium</i></b></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b> of views gives way<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>bows in its own vestments<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>and is transformed where it stands, <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>proud or indifferent,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>where still kindness or mercy remain.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Steve Frost 02.2011<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Who Ran WithThe Gods<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>When first 'we ran with the Gods'<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>and the powers of nature were the only real consideration...<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>indeed, there were the first inklings of technology<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>sticks and stones<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Word was an inspiration expressed in grunts and groans<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b> -and gestures... the nature of ritual<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Science, and Religion quavers<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>(savor the favor of Bosses and CEOs)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>and Me<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Consider that...<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>(Who's me?)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>03.15.'11<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>3:45 A.M.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Por Raimon Panikkar: Sobre la Eglesia Moderna<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>There’s a black dark form in my garden's night<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>a moonless sight<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>there's a black dark form, darker than the shadows in my garden<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Steve Frost 03.19.11<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>it’s the difference between universal rules to rule an empire<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>owning my green patch like that, stomping the verge<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>plans, hopes, prized and long nurtured tulips!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Steve Frost 03.21.’11<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>There’s a dark form in my garden’s light<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>...the black cow, on a moonless night, defending its hungry black calf. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Steve Frost 03.23.’11<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>IV. And then there were three,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Saw them as I stepped out the door this morning<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>at the sight!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Its daylight now and those night shadows have given way, again-<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>in the game of radiant beauty and the dark mysteries of Intention.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>It’s just somebody's else's stray cattle.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>but in the morning's light, I've named them: <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Quiet Peace, Kindness and Tranquility! </b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Tradition is the bull waiting down the canyon…<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>as it always does.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Steve Frost<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>03.31.'11<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Bambi and the Golden Eagle<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I watched a golden eagle gliding across<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">the confluence of the Gallina and Chama rivers this morning<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">easy command of his medium<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I was commanding a bowl of rice and stew<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">As I thought of his breakfast<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">rodents and such, fish...<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Then remembered that dark cartoon<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">"Bambi Meets Godzilla," I believe<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Its always like that<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">peaceful pursuit of riparian entertainments<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">beavers and voles<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Popes and Poles<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">butterflies and Bambi<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">then a predator's command!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Everything changes in blood, and butterflies-<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Clueless creatures who always know when to head for Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">and when to procreate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">But I've read of states in which such need might never arise:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Beatific states, bliss<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">outside endless lines of time<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">branes and temporal tines of mysterious origin.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I've read of Eucharistic resolutions of all there is<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">and that 'All will be well,'<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I heard of such, then 'I' disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Steve Frost<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Chama Canyon, New Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: 13pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">04.02.’11</span></b></span></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Let's Canonize a Newly Dead Pope</b></div>
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<b>Sports figures large</b></div>
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<b>still.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Beauty runs round</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>round the rosie</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>surfer's pose</b></div>
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<b>nearly nude on warm beaches universal media</b></div>
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<b>“Dying Gaul[s]”</b></div>
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<b>living statues</b></div>
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<b>Raven's food, one and all- Bodies arching and stretching atop</b></div>
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<b>translucent waves</b></div>
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<b>Tsunamis of the numb and the brave</b></div>
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<b>(Starless night, dark, mare and foal)</b></div>
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<b>Tribal wits</b></div>
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<b>Like Rock and Roll</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>and monied souls,</b></div>
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<b>lost.</b></div>
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<b>Pure Monastic West, Victorians et al—even now,</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>still watering fence posts.</b></div>
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<b>Thin, fat</b></div>
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<b>Let’s run to Rome at the drop of a hat—</b></div>
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<b>Red, or otherwise</b></div>
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<b>let's canonize</b></div>
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<b>-after some fine Pasta Carbonnara-</b></div>
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<b>Big business.</b></div>
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<b>Our lovely Lotus Lord and the Rose of Sharon gone these two thousand, 2500 years.</b></div>
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<b>It's as if they had never, they'd never come or been...</b></div>
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<b>Rhymes with Sin.</b></div>
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<b>Thus we call the wind</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Whirling, come the storm.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Lord of Storms,</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Bring the spin that will save the world.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>cleanse the planet-</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>and give us clean hearts...</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>4.28.’11<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Apnea and Pearls Beyond Price</b></div>
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<b>Riding,</b></div>
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<b>Sliding,</b></div>
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<b>Gliding,</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Suck</b></div>
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<b>ing</b></div>
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<b>air</b></div>
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<b>Gasping</b></div>
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<b>volumes</b></div>
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<b>air</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>at last</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>a perfect pearl</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Steve Frost</b></div>
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<b>05.01.’11</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Out in the Country North of L.A., 1949</b></div>
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<b>We started in a 15' trailer, out in the country north of L.A., 1949-</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>under a giant wild cherry tree</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>with Jimson Weed threatening fierce geisha beauty through earthbound gourd vines spread on the hot</b></div>
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<b>sand</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>but I learned my first five years bare foot in the gravel and stickers, wild fragrance summer and spring-</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>what not to step on.... What to avoid- what to jump down the hill. I knew not to fall into the yuccas- just a knack I guess. To avoid Rattlesnakes and Black Widows like the Holy Terrors they are… couldn’t.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>There were 5 of us. My older brothers slept outside in an Army Surplus bunk bed.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>It doubled as a playpen for me by enclosing the bottom bunk in chicken wire.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Coyotes couldn't drag me off, like they did the ‘free range’ chickens and turkeys.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>(What do you do? Clever know-it-all that you are!)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>They whisper, sometimes gossip, leaves clattering, but mostly glory in having roots that found water... leaves/sun<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>But sometimes one will be found that struck out on its own- a fluff bobbing in that breeze<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>roots where it’s determined it will grow alone<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13pt;"><b>But still its glory glimmers and shimmers in light and wind<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b>Steve Frost</b></div>
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<b>Albuquerque, NM, 05.19.’11</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Bold; font-size: 24pt;"><b>Sweet Veils</b></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Bold; font-size: 24pt;"><b>Ahhh, the sweet veil of forgetfulness,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24pt;"><i><b>velum dulce obliviositas.<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Bold; font-size: 24pt;"><b>Ah, the sweet tea of repose,</b></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times-Bold; font-size: 24pt;"><b>NO, wait,</b></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 16pt;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b>But I knew it could never be.</b></div>
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<b>I still enjoy our winter festival of lights. But I gave in. I was 5. Teacher was big. Brothers were big. Father was big. Big, opposing powers ...</b></div>
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<b>I gave in, but was transferred to a different Kinder-garden class after the Christmas break.</b></div>
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<b>Did I resist too long?</b></div>
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<b>Too strong—for a 5 year old</b></div>
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<b>Wrong?</b></div>
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<b>Was that a beginning of anything? Another wonder for the season...</b></div>
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<b>But it was evident early-on that there is a free issue.</b></div>
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<b>An issue of enormous clout. Universally-</b></div>
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<b>Available for desires bigger than the flesh.</b></div>
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<b>Steve Frost</b></div>
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<b>Palm Springs, California- 10.25.2011</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>EMPTINESS, 11/’11</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>For Alan Mootnick,</b></div>
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<b>To the Bosom of Abraham November 4, 2011</b></div>
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<b>Hard to impossible-</b></div>
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<b>Emptiness,</b></div>
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<b>-to imagine</b></div>
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<b>Can’t really.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Even deep empty space, apparently,</b></div>
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<b>hides ‘dark energy’</b></div>
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<b>Hardly empty.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Even when we are feeling empty</b></div>
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<b>It means we are full of what we don’t want.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Feelings, images, ideas, sensations</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Who is empty.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>We </b><i><b>get</b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> metaphor and paradox:</b></span></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>The Great Fecund Void</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>I can paint an abundance of ‘nothing’</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Then frame it with preferences, culture and references</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Glass it over with power and politics</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Psychology,</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Devotion, ...ologies of every stripe</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Then,</b></div>
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<b>Wrap it and</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Send it with the</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Features of</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>God...</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Beautiful Things, but</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Silence is best</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Snow flakes falling on snow</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>No big wind</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>No horizon</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>A flock of garnering quail explode-</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Wings awhirrrrr,</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>From wet ground.</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b>Fr. Steve Frost, 2011</b></div>
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<b>Chama Canyon, New Mexico</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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</span>STEPHEN FROST frostnepsis@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17603786704741831625noreply@blogger.com