{"id":239294,"date":"2023-07-17T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=239294"},"modified":"2023-07-14T06:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:24:58","slug":"silex-scintillans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/silex-scintillans\/","title":{"rendered":"Silex Scintillans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSeek and ye shall find,\u201d
\nI keep telling myself,
\nseeking along in my sneakers,
\ntrying to find the way back to you,
\nmy source, course and goal.
\nThe path gets steeper
\nas I clamber over scree slopes of past deeds.
\nIn this deep karma the sneakers have no hold,
\nso I boot it in hobnails
\nuntil the path disappears midway
\ninto flinty rocks of despair.
\nThe sun drops, light deserts me,
\nbut in the dark night my soles
\nstrike sparks from the flint
\nto show the way. But I stray
\nand am lost. I cry out,
\nand the sound bounces back from you,
\nsteering me by sonic echoes.
\nAgain I slip away, and they fade.
\nBereft of hope, I can only surrender.
\nBody sinks to the ground;
\nmind sinks to its ground \u2013
\nawareness without thought,
\nconsciousness without an object.
\nThere, humming and glowing, is your name,
\nShivaya, leading me on. I follow your mantra
\nlike a radar beacon deeper and deeper,
\nstaying on your beam beyond matter and mind
\ninto the transcendent. There I expand
\ninto my true Self, which is you
\n\u2013 Shiva-Devi-Krishna-Buddha-Jesus \u2013
\nmy lord and redeemer,
\nthe one all-pervading, all-encompassing Self
\nmanifesting and masquerading as the universe.
\nAs soon as I\u2019m with you,
\nI think, \u201cWonderful!\u201d
\nAnd you\u2019re gone.
\nBut tomorrow I\u2019ll again seek and find,
\ngoing beyond body and thought into samadhi.
\nGradually I\u2019ll abide longer,
\nand eventually in enlightenment
\nI\u2019ll never leave you
\nbecause I\u2019ll embody you.
\nShivo-ham, Shiva-swarupa.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> William T. Hathaway is a Special Forces combat veteran and an emeritus Fulbright professor of American Studies in Germany. His books won him a Rinehart Foundation Award and a Fulbright professorship in creative writing. His book<\/em> Radical Peace: People Refusing War<\/a><\/u> presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change U.S. ‘warrior’ culture. His novel<\/em> Lila, the Revolutionary<\/a><\/u> is a fable for adults about an eight-year-old girl who sparks a world revolution for social justice.<\/em> Hathaway’s novel of the climate change,<\/em> Wellsprings: A Fable of Consciousness tells of an old woman and a young man healing nature through techniques of higher consciousness. Chapters are posted <\/em>HERE<\/em><\/a><\/u>. His peace novel,<\/em> Summer Snow, is the story of a US soldier falling in love with a Sufi Muslim and learning from her that higher consciousness is more effective than violence. Chapters are posted <\/em>HERE<\/em><\/a><\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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