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To Everyone Who's Commented Since My Last Visit
I'm very grateful for your comments. TAPS, it's indeed an honor to give you a challenging word. Chyrlann, we share a similar love. Bel, thanks. It's good to see you here again. Wiley, you're a great fellow. Blanche, I have a great story to share, which is why I'm condensing these last few comments. Tanga, I'll be reading you again soon.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 28, 2006 at 1:55 PM
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I understood this to be somewhat of an epiphany,
but must honestly admit....I had to look up at lease one word from each line and wait patiently to read the comments of others first. It hurts sometimes....thinking this much, I mean! I work with numbers for a living (blah), but soooo much love words. I believe numbers and words come from different parts of the brain? Oh (sigh) just to have more time to exercise the part of my brain where words come from......that would be my heaven on earth.
posted by
roadscross
on November 27, 2006 at 11:22 PM
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avant-garde, You got me. I had to look up hebetude. It must be the rainy weather here that is making me dull and lethargic. Great poem.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 27, 2006 at 2:52 PM
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Avant -
The yearing is always there. It's whether we decide to acknowledge it or not that begins the release. Great verse!
posted by
sannhet
on November 27, 2006 at 11:36 AM
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posted by
Tanga
on November 27, 2006 at 2:18 AM
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posted by
Tanga
on November 27, 2006 at 2:18 AM
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avant-garde.
You're a giver and that's a given, blessings my friend
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 26, 2006 at 6:20 PM
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posted by
bel_1965
on November 26, 2006 at 4:29 PM
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Avant-Garde, I do hope that you describe more of your experiences.
In more detail. Experience spaks volume, more than theory, which does nothing to persuade me.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 26, 2006 at 3:04 PM
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HI, Avant! I read the previous entry first! Reminds me of the saying
God rewards those who give and that you do in many ways! Hope you get to make the Christmas trip! Today's post is very interesting and I suspect you have been hugged by God! Lost in His embrace one feels a sense of lethargy, letting go, relaxing in the Spirit! Blessings on you and yours! 
faholo
posted by
faholo
on November 26, 2006 at 3:01 PM
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As I said, Avant, I can't speak to anyone else's experience but my own.
Frankly, neither can anyone, for that matter. It sounds like you've had some interesting experiences yourself of "being loosed in the body".
I've experienced the Spirit, which words can only approximate. I won't presume to tell anyone else what really is The Truth, but then again, for myself, I think I know.
It's all a mystery.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 26, 2006 at 7:26 AM
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Mrs T
We all do.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 26, 2006 at 4:08 AM
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Blanche
Thank you for listening.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 26, 2006 at 4:08 AM
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appleworks
I think very seldom do we get a glimpse into the deeper mysteries and purpose of our voyage here.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 26, 2006 at 4:07 AM
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Julia
I think this was done automatically. Not using my arm, but my mind. I prayed to be in direct mind contact with an ascended master. Thanks for the visit and I am all too glad to stretch my wings a little.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 26, 2006 at 4:06 AM
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Blanche
I've experienced many times of feeling completely loosed while in the body. It's indescribable. It takes a desire to get to the very root of one's mind and its myriad illusions. I do believe that karma can be eliminated while in physical form. Yet, if I hadn't experienced it, it would have remained but another hackneyed idea.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 26, 2006 at 4:05 AM
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Bhaskar
Thanks, my friend. It's always good to hear from you, too.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 26, 2006 at 4:03 AM
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Ariala
Thanks. Good to hear from you.
posted by
avant-garde
on November 26, 2006 at 4:02 AM
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Hi Avant - if I understand it right then I have hebetude!!!!
Mrs T
posted by
Tanga
on November 25, 2006 at 11:51 PM
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"Hebetude" means mental lethargy; thanks for the cool new word, Avant
posted by
Blanche.
on November 25, 2006 at 2:50 PM
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avant
i really like the descriptions here. bipolar for the day, hidden agendas attract resistance and lies. so much is briefly lived.
posted by
appleworks7
on November 25, 2006 at 2:11 PM
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Avant--
this is really nice. you are always stretching my vocabulary, giving me words I need to go and look up! (but that's a good thing, as a writer cannot ever have "too many" words in their vocabularly!).
posted by
Julia.
on November 25, 2006 at 9:14 AM
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Avant, "effeteness" is a great word, it implies something corrupt
or amoral (to me), I think of the courts of the Louises of France, particularly the last Louis, Marie-Antoinette's husband, where the rich treated the poor as less than animals. They were truly "effete", imo, even foppish and effeminate.
Hebetude, I'll look up.
But the metaphysics, although I've read much and heard more of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and animism in general, I understand in theory, but it never touched my heart. The "causation and suffering", the endless wheel of karma, which only learning and awareness, moral rectitude can free one from the wheel of Karma, I do not believe.
I believe in the divine grace of Jesus Christ, whose living spirit imbues me with life, and inspires me every moment. I am not willing to say that that is true for everyone, I can't, I only know my own personal experiences, the miracles, the spiritual experiences. So, I understand what you're saying on an intellectual level, but it left me cold, even when I was trying to study Eastern mysticism, it never touched my heart.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 25, 2006 at 8:02 AM
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Avant
Superb Expressions! you remind me of Wordsworth's mystic experiences of Nature.
The mystical awareness is the awareness of the all-pervading Universal Spirit.
It is: A motion and a Spirit, that impels
All living things, and all objects of all thought
And rolls through all things. (Tintern Abbey).
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on November 25, 2006 at 6:30 AM
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Well done! I like those moments of revelation, insight and freedom!
posted by
Ariala
on November 25, 2006 at 5:31 AM
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