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Epilogue

             I myself am the proof of every word that I have written

From Here to Nowhere

Many years have passed since that young boy stood alone in his bedroom dressed in a red dressing gown with red plastic buttons, but in a sense nothing had changed. Essence knows no age, no gender, no name, no nationality and no belief – only being and non-being. If we see that belief is an illusion, a habit perpetuated by our species and sustained by thought and memory, and if we discard the labels and identification with thoughts, beliefs, concepts and ideas, a completely different perception comes into being. We are then actively conscious and aware, rather than sleep-walking in the belief that we are awake. Being consciously aware is the perception that everything is One and everything is inter-related, a part of everything else, and that nothing is created and nothing is destroyed but constantly changes form in a whirling kaleidoscope of atoms and molecules of matter and energy...............................................

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Remarkable Men and Women

Hermann Hesse – writer - German Nobel prize-winner - e.g.¨The Glass Bead Game,¨

¨Steppenwolf, ¨ Siddhartha, ¨Demian,¨, ¨Peter Camenzind.¨

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff – writer/philosopher – teacher - e.g. ¨Beelzebub´s Tales to his Grandson¨, ¨All and Everything¨.

Peter D. Ouspensky – writer – teacher – e.g. ¨In Search of the Miraculous¨, ¨ The Fourth Way¨.

Jiddhu Krishnamurti –¨ a kind of philosopher¨ (in his own words), a spiritual teacher ‘discovered’ by Annie Besant, Theosophy– venue: Brockwood Park. Hampshire. U.K. – e.g. ¨Freedom from the Known,¨¨ The First and Last Freedom. ¨

Ramana Maharshi – Vedanta mystic – Arunachala – India.

Lao Tzu – Chinese sage – philosopher – spiritual teacher – e.g. The Tao Te Ching.¨

Carl Jung – psychologist – dream-analyst  -  e.g.¨Memories, Dreams and Reflections¨ 

Alan Watts – Zen Buddhist -writer - e.g. ¨The Wisdom of Insecurity¨, ¨ The Taboo against Knowing Who you Are.¨ 

Chogyam Trungpa – Tibetan Lama – “Meditation in Action”, “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”.

Jiyu Kennett– Roshi (Zen master) – English woman – e.g. ¨Selling Water by the River.¨Abbot of Mount Shasta Zen Monastery, California.

Dhiravamsa – Thai Theravada Buddhist Teacher

The Dalai Lama – Spiritual leader of the Tibetan Gelugpa sect.

Sangharakshita – British Buddhist, Teacher of the Vajrayana

Carlos Castañeda – writer – e.g. - ¨The Teachings of Don Juan.¨¨ A Separate Reality.¨¨¨ Tales of Power.¨etc.

Colin Wilson – writer – e.g. ¨The Outsider,¨¨Religion and the Rebel¨etc..

Jack Kerouac – writer - e.g.  ¨Big Sur¨, ¨ On the Road¨, ¨The Dharma Bums. ¨ 

Allen Ginsberg – writer – poet – philosopher – e.g. ¨Doing your own Being.¨

Lyall Watson – socio-biologist & writer – e.g. ¨Gifts of Unknown Gods,¨ ¨The Romeo Error. ¨

Aldous Huxley – writer – philosopher – e.g. ¨Island¨, ¨Brave New World¨.

Michael Adam (Kim Taylor) – writer – illustrator – calligrapher – friend –

e.g. ¨Man is a Little World,¨A Strange Wild Place,¨¨My Wild Lone.¨

William Blake – poet – philosopher.

Teilhard de Chardin – Christian mystic – philosopher.

Werner Erhard – founder of E.S.T.

Rabindranath Tagore – poet – philosopher – e.g. ¨Gitanjali¨.

Pir Vilayat Khan – Sufi mystical teacher. The Western Sufi Order.

Kahlil Gibran – writer – poet – philosopher - e.g. ¨The Madman.¨

Jalaluddin Rumi – Sufi mystic – poet – philosopher.

Van Morrison – musician – composer – e.g. –  ¨Astral Weeks¨, ¨Tupelo Honey.¨

Ravi Shankar – musician. Sitar, surbaha and tabla.

Robert Redford – actor – film director.

Daniel Day-Lewis – actor. ¨The Unbearable Lightness of Being.¨ ¨My Left Foot.¨

Bonnie Raitt – singer – song-writer. ¨The Nick of Time,¨¨Longing in their Hearts.¨

Li Po – Chinese poet

Bernard Leach – master potter

Shoji Hamada – Japanese master potter

Richard Bach – “ Jonathan Livingstone Seagull”

Vimala Thakar – Indian spiritual teacher associated with Krishnamurti

Pak Subuh – founder of Subud

The poems deal basically with these themes : LIFE/DEATH  and  LOVE/FREEDOM.

They are two sides of the same coin, and depend on one another.....are inseparable.

1                    Gaelic Muse – this is the first poem, full of romantic idealism, written in Nottingham in 1963 at the age of 23

2                    The Tigress – in contrast  this is a bitter poem, written in self-imposed exile at Glastonbury in the winter of 1974

3                    Winter´s Evening – written at Glastonbury in 1974, in the Vale of Avalon

4                    Now is the Time – a musical poem written in 1974, and it expresses realisations and insights into Reality

5                    Awareness – a meditation on the nature of reality

6                    Butterfly – composed on the Isle of Purbeck in Swanage, in the company of two poet friends, who decide to walk the cliff path while the writer stays behind.

7                    You and I – the moment of meeting your soul-mate

8                    Immortality – a philosophical poem based on certain insights

9                    With your Love – written in Kingston upon Thames in 1975 , manuka is a fragrant flower which grows in New Zealand, and the nectar makes excellent honey

10                The Tao of Not-doing – based on Chinese Taoist philosophy. Tao = the Way

11                Love comes… - concerning the nature of love which is revealed with the death of the ego

12                The Way that we Wander – this poem is also about ¨the Way¨ and our attitude to life; it is about choosing what already is determined. Jesus said …..

13                Earth-Water Idyll – the man is Taurus, the woman Aquarius; Helen of Troy launched 1000 ships – written in Penryn, Cornwall in 1979

14                Flirting with Creation – also written in 1979, as a reply to a poem received from Helen; it has cosmological connotations. First you will see Helen´s poem.

15                Memories – written in 1984 in Cornwall where the climate is very elemental.

16                Haiku Poems – Japanese poetry in which the essence is captured in 3 lines, the first line with 5 beats, the second with 7 beats and the third with 5 beats.

17                Only This – written much later, in the year 2000, the Year of the Dragon; it relates to the nature of the Universe, in which all is one indivisible whole and where the only time is now.

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Chapter 27

Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se arbre

                                                                         Cervantes

The Spanish Connection

In Spain I felt far more comfortable and at ease in the favourable climate and I also had the pleasure of living in the vicinity of my young children who regularly stayed with me over the weekend. I attended meetings in Marbella of the Mind, Body, Spirit group and encountered Tibetan singing bowls, a talk on Buddhist meditation, a talk on Thai massage and acupressure, a talk on veganism and a talk by an Ancient Elder, as aborigines he met in Australia described him, namely Colin Louis, a spiritual healer and psychic who spent time at the Findhorn community..................

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