The Dream of Reality

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What is reality if not a dream?

Can you prove it otherwise and not still be in the dream?

I say Heaven on Earth is

God’s perfect dream of Creation,

divine consciousness materializing a world of being and enchantment.

Like a movie projector, divine light  throws pictures on the screen.

But acting like apprentice artists painting over their master’s work,

we add a second dream layer spun by our own

thoughts, beliefs, conflict, trauma, struggle, and suffering.

The entire journey of life runs between these two dreamlands.

Awakening from the second dream, we find the original dreamer

in the light-filled landscape of the original dream.

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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.

Ordinary Humans Will Save The World

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Every person has genius inside,

a daemon whose unique gift is grace,

a one-of-a-kind contribution

to humanity’s salvation.

 If you could only see yourself as I do.

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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 Light of a New Dawn

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A toxic brew

of AI, climate change, fascism, and war

bode a darkly apocalyptic human era.

 Yet in the world of Spirit

our journey of awakening continues.

We stumble toward Eden

holding each other.

May we stay nimble.

May we be luminous with love.

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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.

Our Work

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Our concepts

are too small

for the work at hand.

We are commissioned by

the living divine universe

to awaken and transform

into cosmic beings –

spiritual builders, teachers, artists,

writers, and leaders of a new consciousness.

We are the agents

of humankind’s

next evolution. 

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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 Answer Is Here

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When problems avalanche

over attempts to fix, control, or escape them,

stop everything.

Be still, silent, quiet, present.

Let the holiness of the moment

settle around you.

No thought, no effort, no goals.

No place to go.

Wait.

The answer is here.

Now.

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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.

Worship through Action

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As crises pile up threatening

to shatter heart and soul,

we are not helpless.

We can love and support our

friends, neighbors, coworkers, volunteers,

classmates, and congregations.

As we knit ourselves together with love,

we can find ways to help –

physically, economically, emotionally, spiritually,

politically, personally, and mystically.

Rumi said,

“Let the beauty we love

be what we do.

There are a thousand ways to

kneel and kiss the ground.”

May we kneel on Creation’s sacred ground and

discern a thousand ways to

worship through action.

~

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 Middle Way

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Hate begets hate,

bring love.

Blame leads to revenge,

bring compassion

Rage triggers violence,

bring peace.

Fear motivates withdrawal,

bring calm.

Collapse leads to defeat,

bring healing.

Exhaustion robs engagement,

bring energy.

Lies foster confusion,

bring truth.

Cynicism creates nihilism,

bring hope.

Surrender permits dominance,

bring resolve.

Despair generates isolation,

bring community.

Hopelessness drives denial,

bring nature,

Detachment fosters unconsciousness,

bring awareness.

Negativity crushes inspiration,

bring the mystical Self.

We are never alone or defenseless.

The deepest source of our resistance

to tyranny and injustice

lies in our common humanity

and the mystical experience

of our divine nature.

Generate a force field

of love, empathy, and healing

to rein in the raging beast.

Love begets the strength to care.

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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.

Protect Democracy

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Framers of our constitution

conceived democracy

to uphold the sacred value of every citizen.

Those with a lust for power and wealth

inevitably threaten this principle.

When democracy fails,

mystical consciousness awakens.

We feel the suffering of others

because in God we are the others.

That time has arrived.

As slaughter rages,

we incarnate God-as-Creation,

lock arms,

and defend Earth’s sacred ground

with the courage

of unconditional love.

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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.

Love in Desperate Circumstances

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When hatred, horror, and cruelty

set the world ablaze,

the mystic knows society’s fires

simply mirror the narrative

of a few angry males,

like two drunks fighting outside a bar

over grievances long forgotten.

Humanity begs for another

kind of response.

Consider…

Walt Whitman,

acting from sacred perception,

devoted his mysticism to nursing Civil War soldiers

in hospitals and battlefields

all the while knowing he had no control over

the outcome of humanity’s latest nightmare.

Psychologist Victor Frankl,

imprisoned in a concentration camp,

with love and attention his only resources,

provided comfort and hope to others

by finding meaning in love.

Here’s my prayer…

May we merge

mystical consciousness with

God-as-Creation

and love

as Creation loves

by healing wounds with tender new growth.

May we offer

love-as-action

until the terrible cost of violence

brings people to their knees and

 humanity wakes up.

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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.

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.

~

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.