Godself

What if in every self, there were a Self,
a divine yet unique expression of a person,
like a titanium crystal snowflake?
Super strength and brilliance to Infinity,
with real personality attributes and feelings,
brazen power encasing vulnerability?

What would my Godself be like?

Solid, steady, illuminated,
pulsing in perfect rhythm
and singing in perfect harmony
with the other Godselves.

Creative, passionate, nurturing,
seeming at times capricious,
effusive and obsessive and gentle,
given to sudden destruction
of the sickly, stale and staid things,
sometimes a creator,
sometimes a sustainer,
sometimes a destroyer,
like You
and Me.

Godself, by Alex Grey

alexgrey.com

Amoureux

Imagine intimacy 

with the vast universe.

Envision engagement

with the fabric of time.

Suspend substantiation,

allowing truth to materialize.

Touch tentatively

what lies beyond birth and death. 

Be bolder

and see with closed eyes.

Acknowledge affection

from your most loving friend. 

Prioritize presence

with the omnipresent lover. 

Entirely envelop

your being in love. 

Elements

Let the soft water
meet with a yielding body,
nothing to resist.

Welcome the warm fire.
Melt internal resistance.
Unfold into bliss.

Sitting on the ground,
root into abiding peace.
Surrender to earth.

Step outside the door,
greeting wind's inspiration.
Ride the currents, free.

Enigmatic realm,
a universal matrix,
ether permeates.

Bypassing

What can't you accept?
Identify your taboos.
What if they show up?

Don't try to banish,
simply let them go away
without wincing or bracing.

Don't try to avoid,
pretending they are absent.
Meet them at the door.

Look them in the eye.
There is space in you for all
you think you can't face.

Critique and reject
and scrub away the dirty
bits and pieces of your life.

Call out bad actions
and bad words and ideas:
watch them reappear.

All that you reject
lies dormant in your psyche
just waiting to reemerge.

Judgment and dismay
become your mode of being
so you are depressed.

Then you turn to God,
your idea of Perfect,
some future reality.

Doing rituals
which make you feel protected
from the things you hate.

You say lock the doors,
keep all the windows covered:
bad people outside!

You criticize all,
working towards your Heaven
some Hell lurking within.

You hate in others
what you reject in yourself.
Try to be open.

It is not too late
to soften your perspective
finding a new way.

Faith is seeing love,
embracing the possible,
releasing strictures.

I can't make you see
or make peace with your demons.
You gave birth to them.

Instead of control,
let all the chaos inside
the sanctuary.

Flesh

Straight lines could live inside,
but I don't know where.
I can't find anything else
besides gentle slopes and curves.

I love it all now,
peachy and ruddy with spots,
and shades of brown and gold
with a touch of blue.

Mellifluous qualities emerge
with patience applied,
nothing is metal or rubber
or battery powered,
we're more complex and beautiful.

Weekend

Hazy, indescribable, purplish sensations descending steadily through the spiral, 

lit from the bottom and radiating up and out to all sides,

feelings I am seeking to extend indefinitely,

so I won't have to turn them off and on. 

Recreate some experience I can't remember, that's what I want to do on a weekend night,

find a little rabbit hole to plunge into,

so I can engage my mind in stimulation

and my senses in pleasure. 

 

                                                 Sexy Slime, from theblogofbaphomet.com

Eight

Yama
Niyama
Asana
Pranayama
Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi

Treat others with respect and conduct yourself with the highest integrity,
Amen.

Apply effort to self-cultivation, going within to find your divinity and bring it forth,
Amen.

Find peace and good health through mastery of inspired movement,
Amen.

Develop a sacred connection to your breath to harness and sustain your vital energy,
Amen.

Retreat into your inner self becoming free of external distractions,
Amen.

Learn to focus your mental powers towards ultimate freedom,
Amen.

Establish your foundation in perfectly balanced and unchanging truth,
Amen.

Experience the state of everlasting bliss,
Amen.