Author: jcr416

Apocalypse and Rebirth

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We stand paralyzed before

a hard-barreling train

carrying the massive freight

of warfare and climate disasters,

polluted landscapes and human desperation.

Its impact – fierce, powerful, terrifying –

already disrupts our lives.

We tremble in the face of

multiplying catastrophes.

Perhaps a new vision will rise from

the marriage of mystical awakening

and Earth wisdom.

Listen:

The sacred world is already here,

divine and conscious.

Do you see it?

As humanity’s arrogance fails,

open your consciousness to the guidance

of Spirit, ancestors, and love.

Get ready to move

from heartbreak and loss

to the new work of Creation.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death and my third and final volume, Into The Light: Death, Dying, and Beyond. Thank you, John.

The Courage to Be

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Democracy is burning.

What is the mystic’s response

to this metastasizing evil?

It begins again by

experiencing,

worshipping,

and

serving

God-as-Creation

to embody

its love, joy, and creativity.

Here we find

God as Reality,

 God as Love,

and God as our own being.

To confront fascism,

we also challenge our belief in death.

Once you realize

the World of Man is an illusion

with death its central archetype,

you will see through the present ugliness

into

the underlying fabric of divine life.

Your awakening to the sacred world

will ignite the courage to stand strong

against purveyors of hatred and death.

They can kill illusion,

they can kill our temporary incarnations,

but they can’t kill God.

They can’t kill our souls.

In these dire times,

we stand inside God,

animated by God,

lived by God,

to love Creation as our own being.

What should we do?

Wake up.

Fill ourselves with sacred weapons:

love, compassion, and joy.

Act.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death and my third and final volume, Into The Light: Death, Dying, and Beyond. Thank you, John.

Second Journeys

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Gradually, as we age, we recognize

a second journey waits on the horizon,

a journey beyond this world.

To prepare, we reminisce, let go,

wrap up affairs and say goodbyes,

subtly at first, then more directly.

Sensing a sea change

we await the ship that will 

take us across the great waters.

Light filters through the veil of sky.

We smile, laugh, cry, and trust.

Dissolving into love once again,

we know it will be glorious.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death and my third and final volume, Into The Light: Death, Dying, and Beyond. Thank you, John.

When Death Cracks Open the Door

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When the curtain draws back on the drama of life.

We are not what is happening

but the consciousness in which it appears to happen.

In fact, death only happens in the dream.

When the door cracks open,

an even more sublime dream

shimmers in amazing technicolor.

God’s next manifestation awaits.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death and my third and final volume, Into The Light: Death, Dying, and Beyond. Thank you, John.

My Gift To You

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As a gift of gratitude,  I offer you my final book at the lowest price allowed: $0 Kindle, 99¢ e-book, $8.60 paperback. May the love in this work transform your life as it did mine. Click HERE to order.

While most of us view death as grim or frightening, a wealth of human mystical experience speaks to its transformative power and the deeper understanding that life and death are interconnected in a way that transcends conventional fears. Not only does consciousness transcend death, we discover new and higher states of love, joy, and growth in next world. Even before death, the awakening mystic discovers Heaven is already here, feels personal consciousness evolving into the divine consciousness, and senses the call to care for God-as-Creation. Prepare for a mystical adventure beyond your wildest imaginings. You are invited Into the Light and beyond.

Love the Children

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God awakens love in the hearts of the old

to welcome little children into the world.

Don’t explain away this miracle as brain chemistry.

Don’t steal our joy.

Or theirs.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death. My third and final volume, Into The Light is nearing completion. Thank you, John.

Simplicity

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Old age simplifies life.

Sensory and fresh,

fascinating, timeless, and alive,

 we enter a world of dancing branches,

mind-blowing sunsets, 

children’s laughter,

great storms at the window.

A world of wonder and transcendence.

Hard edges and sharp boundaries

soften into quilted beauty.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death, and Into The Light: Death, Dying, and Beyond. Thank you, John.

Aging into God

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Even the trials of mind and body bring you closer to the one light shining through everything.

It happens second by second by second.

The slow blossoming of something radically new 

growing in the field of losses.

It’s happening right now.

Can you feel it?

Past and future recede into mystery.

Even the trials of mind and body 

bring you closer to the one light

shining through everything.

We don’t know what a single thing is

but we find its beauty everywhere

along this second-by-second path into God.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death. My third and final volume, Into The Light is nearing completion. Thank you, John.

Wisdom?

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Mystical aging isn’t about wisdom,

it’s about being ever closer

to life’s pure experience:

old bodies, slower thoughts,

sunrises and cold winds,

loving touch, timeless moments,

deep breaths, honest conversation,

and the steadily parting veil.

Perhaps that is wisdom.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death. My third and final volume, Into The Light is nearing completion. Thank you, John.

Telling the Truth

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How do I tell family and friends

I have changed, 

the old me passed away and a new one seeks

only peace, quiet, and the simplicity of love?

Of course, “I” am still here, but in a new way.

Images of my aging grandmother,

sitting quietly in the garden,

draw me into the waiting stillness.

I offer my grandchildren 

her same unspoken presence,

resting in divine being.

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I hope you are enjoying these offerings of mystical poetry. Find more revelations in my books I Am God: Wisdom and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness and Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death. My third and final volume, Into The Light is nearing completion. Thank you, John.