POST: THE WAYS OF BEING’S BLOG

•          First, thank you so much for finding this Blog.  In it you’ll find what’s said to be some  esoteric, annalistic, narrative poetry.  The first of the three books of it, published and released in January of 2022.
            In which (within the blog) I plan to post the first 99 sonnets in it.  Beginning with the first five, THE OVERTURE, to the WAY OF BEING, as well as some of the feedback and comments I’ve received about them on a monthly basis from now on.  To incite you into responding and/or to your criticizing of them, if you like.
            Showcased here to enhance their dissemination as well.  Also for those unable to purchase a copy of the book at this time.
            Please note the verses ( each a single sonnet) are meant to be read in order in this blog.  Sequentially, since each sonnet broadly relates to the previous or the next one there.
• INVATATION       
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• So, have look here if you like, at some of the  first stanzas in Volume One. Perhaps of some interest to you.  Hopefully, stimulating some thoughts, impressions, insights and/or some intuitions from and in you.
             Should you decide to respond, there are comment sections/windows for you to do so, beneath each of their postings.  Perhaps a dialog will ensue, of some interest to us all.
             Regarding my acceptance and my posting of your comments, I’m more apt to, if they’re related in some way to the poetry’s verses and/or the comments previously posted there.  Not way out of bounds from their intention, meaning and/or their subject matter.
            You can also see some samples from Volumes II and III on this Website’s Excerpt page.
             So with that, below is the first verse in Volume One, perhaps of some interest to you. 
• Here then is the :

THE WAYS OF BEING

to whom we first here pray:

In the name of the fact of existence,
and that of the spirit in its Being,
with reverence we pray to their essence,
their truth, grace and presence from which we spring.
Their Ways Of Being when a multitude,
the ways of their being, when on the scene,
to their oneness here, with our gratitude,
their Ways Of Being, when behind the screen.
For raising us up, from out of the depths,
to undergo another way to be.
Where, if watching our steps, when on our treks, 
might find if there’s one with a master key.
While here on these verdant and mordant shores,
living like sheep, rainbows and dinosaurs.

Always there being within their existence,
one fourth more than the four-fourths of their presence.

Commentary: 

       Among the many things that could be said and implied from any one of the lines above.  Notice there’s neither a depiction of, nor a call for ‘belief’ in anything much less, for that of personified God.  Belief, defined here as: a psychological construct in the mind, made out of phenomenon, that makes for both a context and or a depiction of the world and/or the universe, that we live in here, thought or held  to be true  without real proof or supporting evidence.  Thus subject to argument and confrontation.  Nor is there a desire for the recognition much less an affirmation of what’s being said in the sonnets here.

          Rather this sonnet (a prayer in this case) is to that, what we either perceive and/or experience inwardly know as a fact, to exist, i.e. a prayer to that what exist.   The evidence for it, is our very experiencing of it, of the phenomenon of our own existing.  Whether within us or not, whether but a dream, whether illusory pareidolias or not.  We see, experience, react to and know, that at least something exist.  Thus it’s a prayer to all what exist. 

          Not a prayer that’s looking to elicit or heighten enthrallment and/or emotion, or for the wanting or desiring of something.  Rather a prayer of gratitude.  Not to a personified, inherited and/or a concocted or constructed entity, an anthropomorphism, separate from the reality we feel and know.  That generally people refer to and call God.  

          In other words (regardless the enmity, tragedy and the beauty in life, within existence) one either sees, perceives or experiences a higher and/or a greater unity, capacity and/or spirituality in phenomenon, or one does not.  A capacity requiring considerable spiritual development if aspired to, beyond what’s ordinary in people and/or that what’s in the pseudo esoteric. 

         Belief in a benevolent, personified and thus limited God is considered antithetical to such, if not an anathema, to having an experiential spirituality.  Due (while recognizing a given religion’s auxiliary social service contributions to societies) due to belief’s (in and of itself ) lack of efficacy, i.e. the ability to produce any real respite and succor in mankind.  Be that as concepts, beliefs and opinions are easily disputed and overwhelmed by empirical research and science, by other religions, by other philosophies and even by  insights and perceptions.

          Belief, opinion and dogmatic religion, being partly responsible for so many of the conflicts, calamities ‘and atrocities throughout history.  However evolutionarily significant that may have been. 

AVAILABILITY:

          To purchase from the author a copy of the first Volume of ‘THE WAYS OF BEING‘ click here for the SHOPING Page in January of 2022.

          To purchase a fast copy of the first volume: click here for one from Amazon.

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