I have been writing this book all my life but am only aware now that this is so.
In the 1990s all that I had valued had fallen away, forcing me to increasingly seek
inner truth. My first rersponse was to be open, apparently, structuring forms, statements,
questings to secure the mind. Such refuge was temporal, further searching inevitable.
There is a shift in the seeings sequence. Beyond the blood is the fulcrum for this.
This particular poem took about ten days to write, a period of burning, sweating intensity.
After this was finally completed, the rest of this sequence followed, at the pace of about
one a day. Quite often I did not know where they were coming from.
I would begin with an idea or image, and a poem would enfold from that source, sometimes
with a clarity I found quite wonderful, as in the Peopling places and Knowledge items.
Hogan-San looked through the manuscript before designing the cover.
He said the poem One was all that the book needed!
All of this is an experience of life energies flowing through, and I am still blessed
with an energy beyond my conscious mind.
Long may this be!
www.jkstuart.com
About the author
John Stuart was born and raised in the Rainbow Region around Byron Bay, on the East Coast of Australia, and has spent most of his life there, working as an English teacher and writer. This book dates from the late 1990s, and has developed into a series, reflecting a collapse, awakening and re-emergence process. It is the title and basis of the Website, www.jkstuart.com In recent years John has travelled widely in Australia and overseas while maintaining his local connections. He is the author of secondary school textbooks and has written extensively on English literature. John taught at Xiamen University in Fujian Province for several years. Some comments by a student…You are the best teacher I have seen. I have learnt many things from you. Now we will be separated, I’m so sad. Many years later when I recall my life in the university, your class will be a glittering memory. Spiritual teachers Hogan-San, Subana and Gangagi have supported his work, which has won various competitions and been widely published, nationally and internationally.
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