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  • Get Creative!
    They say that love is blind,
    But my love for you isn't:
    My heart is with my mind,
    My soul is with my reason.

    I know why I love you,
    And it's completely real:
    And unified and true:
    I think it, and I feel it:

    I love you for your heart,
    Your sweetness and compassion,
    I love you since you're smart
    And filled with joy and passion,

    I love you for your warmth
    And excellence and wisdom;
    For lights that through you course
    In every time and season -

    For beauty that you are
    Both outside and inside,
    Because you are a star
    In nature and in mindset -

    I love you for you will
    To help, and for your honor:
    For where you've gone and been
    And came out all the stronger:

    I love you for your grace
    And for your dedication
    To good deeds; your soft face
    And glorious inspiration -

    For your resplendent gifts
    And what you're doing with them -
    And all you are - it is
    Completely true to reason:

    I love you for your light
    And unremitting kindness
    All times of day and night -
    No, my love is not mindless:

    I love you for I see
    The wonder that you're truly
    And from it comes to be
    The passion reasoned fully:

    My heart and mind are clear
    And doubt they both cast out
    And there is nothing here
    That's blind or not thought out:

    I love you with my mind
    And heart and strength and spirit
    No, my love is not blind -
    It's unified: So feel it.
  • Get Creative!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGqexvEtrBo

    How ravishing the Russian evenings are
    Love, and champagne, and sunsets over alleys
    And walks and the amusements in the summer -
    How ravishing the Russian evenings are.

    Beautiful women, lackeys, servants, there they are
    The waltz of Schubert and the crumbling of french bread and
    Love, and champagne, and sunsets over alleys -
    How ravishing the Russian evenings are.

    How ravishing the Russian evenings are
    Sunset aflame and shining like a band and
    Only the heavens in the blue eyes of the poet -
    How ravishing the Russian evenings are

    May all be dream, may love be game - wherefore
    For you are all my passion and embraces?
    But in this world my memory remains of
    How ravishing the Russian evenings are.

    May all be dream, may love be game - wherefore
    For you are all my passion and embraces?
    But in this world my memory remains of
    How ravishing the Russian evenings are.

    By White Eagle
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
  • Get Creative!
    Softly and sweetly Melanie
    Is sleeping in the camping tent
    She looks delightful, peaceful, free -
    What more can anyone demand?

    Her hair soft grass, her breath a breeze,
    Each gentle movement of her chest
    A way to stars, a way to seas,
    Another place for birds to nest;

    The birds that chirp by gushing brook
    And in the gum tree canopies;
    But there's no place I'd rather look
    Than at my darling Melanie -

    As she sleeps softly next to me
    Delight of body and of mind
    My darling, darling Melanie!
    My love, my star, my friend, my bride!
  • Get Creative!
    When I am thinking deeply
    I see the world in brown:
    The colors mix completely
    And in each other drown

    Creating a commingling
    Expressing every view
    Through merger and intriguing
    Revealing what is true -

    When I am looking death-ward
    I see the world in black
    Where the ungentle shepherd
    Leads toward a wayward track,

    Where millions of creatures
    Feed on the human ghosts
    And lawyers, dressed as preachers,
    Proclaim the heaven lost.

    When I look at the clouds
    I see the world in gray:
    The hopes and the doubts
    In them together play

    And through their interaction -
    All facets merged in one -
    Bring lightning and refraction
    Of rays of setting sun.

    When I am with my loved one
    I see the world in pink
    The spirit-cloud above me
    Reshaping all I think

    Feeling my essence nurtured
    And brought into sweet love -
    Her heart, like gentle orchid,
    Enfolds me in a glove.

    When I burn with desire
    I see the world in red:
    My heart becomes a pyre
    Inside which burns my head

    And as it turns to embers
    Where all things fleshly die,
    My spirit soars and clambers
    And falls into the sky.

    When I am being rained on
    The world is orange-clad,
    The conic and Ukrainian
    Combine inside my head

    To manifest in eros
    That courses through all life
    And, through the trials and errors,
    At consciousness arrives.

    When I am full of glamor
    The world is yellow, and
    It turns into a lemon
    And into shifting sand

    From which, with just some patience,
    I make a lemonade
    That feeds the respiration
    And all of me pervades.

    When I am feeling open
    I see the world in green
    In which I feel and hope and
    Know goodliness and sin

    And, seeing the whole landscape
    From elevated view
    Conquer the inner wasteland
    And make it bloom anew.

    When I am full of willpower
    I see the world in blue
    And, certain, build a tower
    That seeks attainment to

    The transcendental wisdom
    Of sky and ocean waves
    Which holds the truth and freedom
    And love that goodness saves.

    When I am full of soul
    In indigo am I
    Feeling the cosmic whole
    Expressed within the sky

    That reaches earth with wisdom
    Of millions of stars
    And nurtures me, assisting
    The healing of the scars.

    When I am in a prayer
    I feel the violet light
    Reaching my spirit, where
    It casts the lies aside -

    Burning into the essence
    With penetrating rays
    And teaching many lessons,
    From gratitude to praise -

    And after darkest hour
    Of darkest of the night
    I'm happy as a flower
    To see the world in white.
  • Get Creative!
    I'll find my love in the ocean
    Mermaid-like, she will call
    Her tenderness and devotion
    Nurturing one and all

    Over the crashing billows
    Ethereal, she will roam
    Reclining as if on pillows
    On incandescent foam

    On the backs of playing dolphins
    In the call of the whales
    Raising the sunfish orphans
    Petting bass on the scales

    Constructing on the corals
    Palaces and enclaves
    Settling the fights and quarrels
    Under and over the waves -

    I'll find my love in the mountains
    Peaks of the Tian Shan
    Her magnificent countenance
    Like glaciers reflecting the sun

    Basking in wind and sunlight
    Clearing the air of dust
    From sunrise and until twilight
    Making the beauty last

    I'll find my love in the tundra
    Under the permafrost
    Where would she be, I'll wonder
    As I am wandering lost

    Petting the polar bears
    Giving them her sweet light
    Lost to all worldly cares
    Bringing the Earth delight

    I'll find my love in the Congo
    In heart of the Abyss
    Seeing the fear and wrong and
    Turning it into bliss

    I'll find my love in the cloud
    Splashing in endless blue
    Vanquishing every doubt
    Making the dreams come true

    I'll find my love in the thunder
    Rumbling through autumn air
    Turning the mind from blunder
    And spirit from despair

    I'll find my love in the cosmos -
    Heart of the Milky Way -
    Playing with laws and causes
    Turning the night to day

    I'll find my love everywhere
    And before I die
    I'll send her name as a prayer
    Into the clear blue sky.
  • Get Creative!
    We made a bubble of our minds -
    Connected over the distance -
    Our nerves together intertwined
    And in their center, Our Existence -

    Heartbeat to heartbeat - will to will -
    Passion to passion - and to reason:
    Keeping us in there from the chill
    In every day - in every season -

    And in the middle - in the core -
    Were our own centers: In this bubble
    They will be there, forevermore,
    All times protected from the trouble.

    The walls us from the world will keep
    And in there we will be together:
    In day, in night, in wake, in sleep
    Like swallow safe within her feathers.

    We made a bubble of our souls -
    How hard it was though to sustain it!
    To wait all day for you to call -
    To keep away all that was tainted -

    To keep alive, this heart to heart,
    This mind to mind, this soul to soul,
    To love you though we be apart -
    And to retain this perfect whole:

    The mental energy it took
    Made me make most of every moment
    My spirit tore, my body shook,
    And I was in a passion's torment -

    And then the bubble's walls concussed
    As all its contents lay there scattered:
    Eternal, present and the past
    Of both the spirit and the matter.

    The bubble burst; walls fell apart
    And what was thought inside protected -
    The throbbing souls, the beating hearts -
    Were there, open and dissected.

    It was as though the skin was flayed
    As centers lay there undefended
    I felt destroyed; you felt betrayed -
    But something happened unintended:

    I saw the beauty that is you,
    You saw how much I cared for you,
    I saw you from a closer view
    And knew indeed that I adore you:

    The bubble burst and spilt its core
    But yet the dream has not been shattered:
    I see you – clearer than before -
    And I can love you even better.
  • Valued And Non-Valued Dualities
    It can work for other people beside myself.
  • Valued And Non-Valued Dualities
    My method is synergy within the framework of check and balance. At the bottom level the two sides check each other's destructive capacities by affirming their rightful prerogatives. At the top level they work together to achieve what neither can achieve by itself.
  • Get Creative!
    1.
    Hagia Sofia -- here to stop and stare
    The Lord has ordered people and the tsars!
    Your dome, as an eyewitness once described it,
    As if by chains is hanging from the stars.
    2.
    To all a shining light -- age of Justinian,
    When to steal off for foreign gods unseen
    Dedicated Diana the Ephesian
    Hundred and seven marble columns green.
    3.
    To what aspired your generous creator,
    When high in spirit and in reason blessed,
    He laid your features on the ground
    And pointed them directions east and west?
    4.
    The temple shines, in the world's aura bathing,
    And forty windows -- triumph of the light;
    On sails under the dome the four archangels
    Finest of all and basking in delight.
    5.
    This building will outlast people and ages
    So wise and spherical and nobly built
    And incandescent weeping of the angels
    Will not corrode away the darkened gilt.

    By Osip Mandelshtam
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
  • Get Creative!
    O what a ball! Intensity of movement, nerves and sound!
    The hearts were beating in three beats and not in twain.
    And ladies were inviting gentlemen
    To a traditional white waltz - and took the breath away.

    And you, that dance with sorrow together,
    Decided to invite that one girl long ago -
    But you must always leave to go somewhere -
    To help somebody or to ready for a war.

    And all, still closer, the more real it becomes,
    She, one with whom you had intended to come in,
    She comes in order to invite you to the waltz -
    And in your temple blood was pounding.

    Externally calm in a ball full of noise,
    You're given away by the shadow of yours -
    She tore, and broke, and trembled in blurry light, as you spun.
    Held gently by the hand, and whirling her like mad,
    And you could have put her across a knife's blade
    So why do you stand, crossing arms, not your own and no one's?

    It was white waltz - the end to doubts of unbelievers
    And end of childhood consolations, dreams and games -
    Today the ladies were inviting cavaliers
    And not because the latter weren't brave.

    The ladies are called forth in time of ball
    And waltz spins heads around, like long before.
    But we must always answer someone's call -
    To help somebody or get ready for a war.

    Whiter than snow is the white waltz, spin now, strive!
    That snow does not get interrupted as it falls!
    She came in order to invite you to a life -
    And you were white - whiter than walls, whiter than waltz!

    Wherever you were - in the lyceum, in the tavern -
    In palace halls, in school - whatever luck despite -
    In Russia ladies were inviting gentlemen
    In every age to the white waltz, and all was white.

    Dulling the sight, not looking to each side,
    Through the despair, silence, quiet, resignation,
    The women hurried to come to our aid -
    Their hall - the size of the entire nation.

    Where you will go, wherever you will fly
    Recall the waltz - how you were white - and smile, you'll learn:
    They'll wait forever - and from sea and from the sky -
    They will invite you to white waltz when you return.

    By Vladimir Vysotsky
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
  • "Money talks, bullsh*t walks"
    I was raised in the Soviet bloc. My own experience of Communism was not a bad one, but that of many others was terrible.
  • Get Creative!
    -1-

    Trial - by misunderstanding,
    Spines together - crevasse between.
    Look to side - step into exile,
    Hands like briars - limp at the seams.

    Through seams of nerves, joints and sinews
    Blood does not gush - it drips from pores,
    And not a man - a man's likeness
    And all in surplus - excess of nerves.

    -2-

    Heart ahead - through body the current flows,
    Eyes away - in darkness to look,
    Heat, and cold, and in ribs the arrows
    Spine on spine beat out a spark.

    Hands are touching - just like dry branches,
    It is time - to start the game must.
    Where eyes play, where the body's rejected,
    Where success and failure compare the cost.

    Like a sword's stroke - sharp eyes opening:
    To make prisoner and take away.
    Two lakes - light, two lakes of sorrows,
    To freeze - like a boa at prey.

    And smoothness, and depth, and silence -
    Play of crystals liquefied
    Sin original, warmth and light too...
    Understanding nonverbal - through the eyes.

    -3-

    Trial by misunderstanding,
    Spines - and if sometime
    To turn around in fit of delirium
    With landslide of feeling - eye to eye -

    But to cease in the blind enlightenment,
    Not to fall - only to sway,
    And to continue, moment to moment,
    And with lips to fall into lake.

    By Lubov Sokolovsky
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
  • "Money talks, bullsh*t walks"
    Check out Adam Smith and Ayn Rand. These were philosophers who conceptualized capitalism and arrived at its intellectual explanation. Without them capitalism would not have survived, and we would be living under Communism.
  • Values And Misuses Of Values
    "It seems you're suggesting that some people are oxymorons"

    Funny Praxis, I said that some people decided that morality was a bad thing because it, like everything else, can be used for wrong.
  • Get Creative!
    Sing to me, my sweet angel,
    My elegant angel of love,
    Past all destruction and danger
    You soar just like a dove -

    Over the lapping ocean
    And past the mountains green,
    Tenderness, warmth, devotion
    And softness - like a dream

    Soothing, caressing, inviting,
    Making soul live and bloom,
    In all that's sweet delighting -
    Dispelling all the gloom -

    Spirit so warm, so tender,
    Heart delicate and sweet
    In all your paintings rendered
    And in your life complete -

    Sing to me, my delightful!
    Let your delicious voice
    Carry the truth, inspire all,
    And let the life rejoice

    In your delicious beauty,
    Your kindness, softness, grace -
    You, that the wrong refuted!
    You, that despair erased!

    Speak to me, my sweet angel!
    Speak all you know and see,
    Let me be your avenger
    Let me set your heart free

    Be inspiration, darling!
    Be my delight and joy!
    Beauty and light imparting -
    Shackles of mind destroy!

    Carry the truth, and kindness,
    And all that's good and true -
    With light of soul, end blindness!
    With love, dark souls imbue!

    Be what love is, angelic,
    Tender, impassioned, warm -
    Powerful, psychedelic,
    Like sunlight - like a storm -

    Out of which come flowers
    And bring the world to life:
    All of the truth, empower!
    Make world with passion rife!

    You! That they claim unreal -
    You are the truth sublime!
    All that is good, congealed in
    Personhood of you! Shine,

    Bring light to those who need it
    And others still, caress -
    See what is tortured? Heal it.
    See what is tender? Bless:

    Take the mind through derangement
    And make it true - enough!
    My angel! My darling angel!
    My exquisite angel of love!
  • Values And Misuses Of Values
    I am not suggesting that morality is bad, I am suggesting that it can be used for wrong.
  • Get Creative!
    Though it may get me labeled a traitor
    And it surely won’t make me rich
    In the face of all those who hate them
    I announce: I love the French.

    For De Tocqueville and Voltaire
    For L’Enfant who designed DC
    For the fact that without their
    Aid the US would never have come to be

    For Dumas, Joan of Arc, Exupery
    Doctors without Borders, and
    For a civilized society,
    Low crime rates and beautiful land

    For their gorgeous, passionate women
    For Cezanne and for Gaughin
    For wine valleys, chateux – earth heaven -
    For Riviera, Paris, Sorbonne

    For their foreign aid to the poor
    And diplomatic outreach -
    There is one thing I know for sure:
    Hear me saying: I love the French.
  • The West's Moral Superiority To Islam

    "lol are you seriously recommending the news as a source of vital information in order to understand a group of people? haha, imagine if someone asked me where they should research what the right wing believe, or who the 'alt-right' was. If I pointed them to the news as a valid source of information on the topic they're likely to think everyone's alt-right and they all hate everyone who isn't a white cis-gendered male with a trump tattoo and a 'make America great again' hat."

    Oh yeah, and I'm exactly like those people.
  • The West's Moral Superiority To Islam
    First start by reading the Quran. I had a friend named Nicholas Starkovsky who translated the Quran into English while extensively annotating it, you can find his work on Amazon. Other than that, read the news, they are frequently there.
  • Get Creative!
    Under a coxcomb of a milky white
    Isaac has built a graying pigeon cage
    The crozier irritates the graying quiet
    Gradations of the air the heart can gauge.

    There's wandering ghost of century-old requiem
    Then the grand bearing of the shroud
    Genessarian* darkness in decrepit seine
    Of week of Lent, before the crowd.

    Upon warm altars smoke glows
    And then a priest exudes an orphaned cry
    A regal man: there is clean snow
    On the shoulders, and savage porphyry.

    Sophie's and Peter's Grand Cathedrals that withstood
    Centuries; warehouses of air and light
    Grain hangars of the universal good
    And corn-kilns of New Testament.

    In the harsh troubled year, not to your side
    The spirit drags across the steps in peace,
    The wolf's trail of disaster reaches wide
    And will not change over the centuries.

    Free is the slave who once has conquered fear
    And who beyond all measure kept, through grief,
    In deep cornbins, in chilly granaries
    The grain of utter and complete belief.

    By Osip Mandelshtam
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
  • Get Creative!
    I will send a piece of me to you
    Through the thinness of the morning air,
    It will penetrate your eyes of blue
    And remain inside your heart forever.

    I will send a piece of me to you
    Over poppies, vilets and roses,
    It will vanish in a church's pew
    And resurface where your soul reposes.

    I will send a piece of me to you -
    You alone in all of humankind -
    It will disappear from my view
    And become a figment of your mind.

    I will send a piece of me to you -
    Nowhere else I'd send it to instead -
    I will tell you to take it - take two -
    And retain them all inside your head.

    I will send a piece of me to you
    Over oceans and over lands,
    It will be so supple and so new -
    Mold it, mold it, mold it with your hands.

    I will send a piece of me to you -
    A created piece, a piece complete -
    Let it be your own, I say this too,
    To just trample underneath your feet.

    I will send a piece of me to you
    I do not know where, nor even when,
    I will send it how, I wish I knew,
    To expire and live in you again.

    I will send pieces of me to you
    In the winter, summer, spring and fall,
    And inside your being they'll accrue
    Until I am none and we are all.
  • The West's Moral Superiority To Islam
    "I hear you. What would you propose to improve things? For what it's worth, I think that in practice, social stability trumps most other considerations because however immoral things get in a stable society, things are much worse once that stability is gone. For that reason, it's immoral to call for social breakdown. I think that condemning Islam wholesale is basically a call for catastrophe. Am I wrong?"

    I think that those societies would do well to adopt Christianity instead of Islam. That way they will have social stability without it being based on a terrible ideology that, among other things, promises boys in heaven.
  • The West's Moral Superiority To Islam
    Where I live, Salvos have been running a drug and alcohol rehab and doing an excellent job. I got involved with their church and do volunteering there. I see no immorality here at all.
  • The West's Moral Superiority To Islam
    Christianity is far from morally bankrupt. I am a part of the Salvation Army, and these people are completely sincere as well as ethical.
  • "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion
    "Everything in the OP is ad hominem, conjecture, speculation, assumption, nonsense. Experiencing an event or sensation and fervently attributing it to something imaginary that you don't understand is called "delusion"."

    It is delusion if it exists in your mind and nowhere else but your mind. It is not a delusion when it corresponds with events in the external world. And my experiences very much do have a correspondence with the external world.
  • Marx And Reagan
    "Sounds like bullshit to me."

    No. Most of the Marxists whom I have known in America came from privilege. The "working classes," as the so-called Rednecks, have been very adamantly against Marxism, exceeding in their anti-Marxist fervor even the "bourgeois." Sometimes the ideas of people differ from the reality of people. In America, it is the "rednecks" and not the "bourgeois" that are most militantly anti-Communist.
  • Europeans And Jews: Trading Places
    I live near a tourist destination that is very popular among young European people. Most people come from Germany, but some from Sweden and Netherlands. They are all smart, articulate and in excellent physical shape. The Germans however are unfriendly, whereas the Swedish and the Dutch are very friendly. They all demand a lot of themselves; but the Swedish and the Dutch also demand of themselves good treatment of the next person, which I think is more important.
  • Get Creative!
    Insanity - and good reason,
    Disgrace - and honor,
    All, that brings on thoughtfulness,
    Is spilling over -

    In me. - All the penal passions
    Become as one! -
    All images wage war inside
    This hair of mine!

    The lover's whisper, all around
    By rote I know,
    Experience of twenty two years
    Nothing but sorrow!

    But - won't you say - innocently pink
    Look I,
    I'm virtuoso's virtuoso
    In art of lies.

    In her let out like a ball,
    Caught once again,
    The blood of Polish great-grandmoms
    Is evident.

    I lie because in cemeteries
    The grass does grow,
    I lie because in cemeteries
    Snowstorm does blow...

    From violin - from automobile -
    From silk, from fire...
    From torment that not only me
    They all desired!

    From pain, that I am not the bride
    Of the groom...
    From poem and gesture - for the gesture
    And for the poem!

    From tender boa on the neck...
    And how can I
    Not lie - when my voice sounds more tender
    When I do lie...

    By Marina Tsvetayeva
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
  • Get Creative!
    My incredible!
    Almost edible!
    Infrared and, well,
    Ultraviolet!
    Full of warmth and light -
    Gorgeous, timeless sight
    Taking mind on flight
    To the never-land.

    Your blonde hair swings down
    On your velvet gown -
    In you voices drown,
    Like in concert hall.
    Unbelievable!
    Inconceivable!
    Sun will rise and fall
    On your gorgeous soul.

    My enchantress, you!
    Giant eyes of blue
    Like a cloud that flew
    Over turquoise skies
    Singing melodies
    Of the galaxies
    Ending fallacies
    And becoming wise.

    Gentle like a dove,
    You are queen of love -
    I can't get enough
    Of your tenderness!
    Goddess of the sea!
    How you sing to me
    How I long to be
    In your soft caress!

    Cherry blossom, you!
    All that's good and true!
    Pink and white and blue
    Like a carnival,
    Like a rainbow, free!
    How you spell-bind me!
    How I long to be
    In your darling soul!

    In your love I'll swim
    And your voice will sing
    An eternal hymn -
    No regret at all!
    Inexorable!
    Most adorable!
    Uncontrollable!
    Unforgettable!
  • "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion
    "Perhaps you might be inclined to if your experiences offered some kind of spiritual insight that you felt could benefit others. Again, I’m just curious why you describe these experiences as spiritual, rather than psychic or whatever."

    Thank you for your insight, I definitely do hope that what I write benefits others.
    Psychic comes across to me as being very similar to spiritual.
  • Get Creative!
    Sing to me, my sweet angel,
    My elegant angel of love,
    Past all destruction and danger
    You soar just like a dove -

    Over the lapping ocean
    And past the mountains green,
    Tenderness, warmth, devotion
    And softness - like a dream

    Soothing, caressing, inviting,
    Making soul live and bloom,
    In all that's sweet delighting -
    Dispelling all the gloom -

    Spirit so warm, so tender,
    Heart delicate and sweet
    In all your paintings rendered
    And in your life complete -

    Sing to me, my delightful!
    Let your delicious voice
    Carry the truth, inspire all,
    And let the life rejoice

    In your delicious beauty,
    Your kindness, softness, grace -
    You, that the wrong refuted!
    You, that despair erased!

    Speak to me, my sweet angel!
    Speak all you know and see,
    Let me be your avenger
    Let me set your heart free

    Be inspiration, darling!
    Be my delight and joy!
    Beauty and light imparting -
    Shackles of mind destroy!

    Carry the truth, and kindness,
    And all that's good and true -
    With light of soul, end blindness!
    With love, dark souls imbue!

    Be what love is, angelic,
    Tender, impassioned, warm -
    Powerful, psychedelic,
    Like sunlight - like a storm -

    Out of which come flowers
    And bring the world to life:
    All of the truth, empower!
    Make world with passion rife!

    You! That they claim unreal -
    You are the truth sublime!
    All that is good, congealed in
    Personhood of you! Shine,

    Bring light to those who need it
    And others still, caress -
    See what is tortured? Heal it.
    See what is tender? Bless:

    Take the mind through derangement
    And make it true - enough!
    My angel! My darling angel!
    My exquisite angel of love!
  • Get Creative!
    "Abyss has opened, full of stars" - Lomonosov

    Abyss has opened full of stars.
    Pluto to Venus, Moon to Mars -
    We see the universal force
    Charting the cosmos from its source.

    Abyss of stars; in stars, abyss -
    From depths to heights - from ague to bliss -
    The life is manifest in all -
    In every part, key to the whole -

    In whole, key to every part.
    The mind to soul, the breath to heart -
    All of life's pieces intertwined
    And through the synthesis refined.

    The void in me, the stars in you -
    The will to be, the sight that's true -
    Will intermingle and imbue
    The world with light of every hue,

    That will commingle into white
    And frame and sanctify the night
    Shining throughout the day with sun -
    And in the night, when course is run,

    Return again to their source
    And be the parcels. And of course
    Inside each star, its own piece
    Of wisdom, ecstasy and bliss.

    Abyss has opened, full of stars.
    Come with me darling, let us parse
    The code contained within the whole
    Into the knowledge of the soul.

    We are the stars; we are the void -
    The burning passion is employed
    To light the path, to guide the way
    And let the cosmic forces play

    Within the whole, as holes within
    Are by the interplay worn thin
    And disappear in the night
    To reabsorb into the light.

    Galactic wisdom knows it all;
    Spacetime collapsed in a black hole
    As world around it rushes by
    And man asks what, and how, and why;

    The incongruity within -
    The passions torn, the mind worn thin -
    Reflect the daylight and the night
    In endless love; in endless fight.

    Through all abysses in the space -
    Through all that in abysses plays -
    Through quasars, galaxies, red shift -
    Through truth, invention and deceit -

    Through spirit's longing and heart's pain -
    Through reasoned words and speech insane -
    Through passion, terror and delight -
    Through day and twilight and the night -

    In all that lives; in all that's here
    In ocean, island, atmosphere
    In jungle, desert, tundra, steppe
    In every place on which I step -

    In atom cracked, its core undone -
    In colors blending into one -
    In forces crumbling on themselves -
    In the commingling of the selves -

    In space collapsed and rearranged -
    In mind extended and deranged -
    In lyre of life, in drum of death -
    In Keats, Neruda, Rumi, Plath -

    In senses shattered to the core
    Till Present touches Evermore -
    In every minute flung ajar -
    I be abyss; you be the star.
  • "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion
    I am not building a religion, I am talking about my experiences.
  • "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion
    It is not a subjective state if it has correspondences with things that exist outside of one's head.
  • "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion
    I am talking here about experiences with less than a billionth chance of happening whose only possible explanations are spiritual. As I posted to another response,

    https://sites.google.com/site/ilyashambatthought/logic-religion-and-spiritual-experience
  • "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion
    "Can you give an example?"

    I know that I'm not supposed to post links, but your question is answered as follows:

    https://sites.google.com/site/ilyashambatthought/logic-religion-and-spiritual-experience

Ilya B Shambat

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