"Unreasonably" by Em Claire

"Show yourself to me,"
said I to God again.

And this is what happened next:

I became pregnant with Light.
My eyes were sunrise and sunset, both.
Freckles announced themselves planets and stars,
and beamed upon my cheeks.
Each of my lips became a kiss to the other,
my ears heard oceans of life.
Between my eyes there was an indigo wheel,
between my toes, blond fields.
My hands remembered climbing-trees,
my hair, each Lover's fingers.

And then I whispered,
"But why have you made me this way?"
And it was told to me:

"Because I have never had Your name before,
nor heard the way You sing it.
Nor stared into the Universe through eyes like These.
Nor laughed This way, nor felt the path that These tears take.

Because I have not known These ecstasies
nor risen to These heights, nor experienced
every nuance of the Innocence
with which you create your lows,
nor how a Heart could grow so wide,
or break so easily
or Love

quite so unreasonably."

-"Unreasonably," Em Claire (2008)

If you liked this, you can find more of her work at her website: www.EmClairePoet.com

I read this in the book by her husband, Neale Donald Walsch, in his book titled: When Everything Changes Change Everything: In A Time of Turmoil, A Pathway to Peace.

My Personal Experience On Hearing "Namaskaratha Mantra" by Uma Mohan

I just got back from an exhilarating run through a neighborhood trail here in Plano, TX. I was going through my playlist on my Ipod and I discovered a song I never heard before (I bought a lot of CDs in India and then I transferred it on to my Ipod and am just getting to some of the songs). This song instantly struck a chord with me. It just so happened that it was sunset and the sky had brilliant purple, blue, and orange streamers with clouds interspersed, so that it appeared to me uncannily as a yoni. I won't go into those details but it seemed to be beckoning to me, calling me forth. As if I were her Shiva and she were my Shakti. Alas, as I got closer the image started to dissolve and the skies started to get darker. Nevertheless, in those 2 or 3 minutes I felt I had a spiritual experience. Just goes to show that yoga can be practiced in any activity as long as sincerity and devotion are applied.

Insightful Passage About Modern Western Society from Aghora II

Vimalananda wanted his views to be spread to anyone willing to listen because he felt acutely the anguish of the emptiness of the modern world, whose god is Mammon and whose predominant religion is an arrogantly emotionless science which seems bent on suppressing what humanity remains within us. As society disintegrates and meaning dissolves from life, people tend either to descend into despair or to return to their roots. We in the West have for years been cutting ourselves off from our roots, and now, nearly rootless, we are slowly dying from lack of cultural nourishment.

Some Westerners seek to live without roots, hydroponically, through futurism, while others try to reinvent the past via the "men's movement," Goddess Worship, Afrocentrism and the like. Yet others search for roots in such still-living cultures as the Indian, Native American, Tibetan or Chinese, as if perhaps by donning their visages they can somehow assimilate their ways. We have, however, become so superficial that few of us know how to dive deep enough into the cultures we seek to emulate to tap into their roots, and so we usually, as Jung feared, poison ourselves.

Vimalananda had no more faith that mass spiritual movements can save us than he trusted in social programs, political activism or enforced morality to rescue us, since all such solutions are superficial; they change our clothing, not our inner beings. He believed that real change can come only through those individuals who are brave enough to examine all of their reality assumptions and change those which must be changed. The numerous misconceptions about spirituality which permeate our modern world make his teachings on Kundalini valuable for everyone trying to follow a spiritual path.


-Svoboda, Robert E. Aghora II: Kundalini. New Mexico: Brotherhood of Life Publishing, 1993.

Ever since I got back to the states, I've been feeling this overwhelming sense of disillusionment with Western society and its obsession with Mammon. This passage sums up my feeling pretty well.