Rising out the world, you and I,

a finite flame among the infinite darkness

of two nebulous chasms…

Born into a disenchanted world

of Cartesian rationalism, our minds

and spirits isolated from the universal,

a race of convulsionaries trudging

though the wastelands of a technocratic

nightmare, afraid of what we might become

if we rid ourselves of the empty shell of appearances

and live out the soul's yearning--that luminous

source that whispers from the depths.

To become a nobody, in the highest sense

of the word, a BEING whose nature

transcends the lower realms of

the synthetic self, and to coalesce with the

timeless flame -- the "divine creative

energy resounding through all things."

Those who know are calm and steadfast

and have no need to disguise their

ignorance with grandstanding and

lavish exhibitionism. Their identities

extend over and above the limits of

the garnished flesh, the wildfires of

intuition still ablaze, their transparent

eyes gaze upon a sublime truth

that lies beyond the paraphernalia

of the measurable, "a lover" they are,

"of uncontained and immortal beauty."

Our cosmic task, my friends,

is to not piss away our

passing days on the

idiotic distractions cooked up

by this cosmetic culture, clutching

like desperate fools on to

possessions and prestige, shackling

ourselves to fixed formulas and

stifling belief systems.

We're here to honor our brief existence

by elevating our minds

above the sterile protocols of this

menacing matrix. To break free

from the cultural constraints

and unleash our own life-energies

toward a universal way

of being.

We are here to evade the muck

that’s continually heaved at us,

and revel beneath the empty skies

like Dionysian gypsies,

opening ourselves

to the cosmic mysteries

that are playing out

endlessly

beneath the surface of

conceptual reality.

We are here to strip ourselves of

the myriad of fashionable falsities

and to actively participate in

the poetry of life.

Our task is not to lose ourselves to

the mundane necessities,

but to courageously overcome

all that keeps us from hearkening

the eternal throb of the spirit.

We are here to doff our civilized masks

and reconnect with our higher nature.

To reacquaint ourselves once again

with the wisdom of the ancients,

to explore the majestic beauty

of the natural world,

to pursue the unknown in

spite of our fears,

to read,

to create,

to love,

to feed our divine curiosities,

and to make living itself

the highest art.