Towards Democracy (Annotated) : Poems of Cosmic Consciousness. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Towards Democracy (Annotated) : Poems of Cosmic Consciousness

You have in your hand a spiritual gem, an extended cry of love, joy and freedom shouted from an open heart and mind. There are times when a writer of talent and grace produces a piece of writing directly from the experience of revelation. Towards Democracy is such a piece. Its words carry the ring of Truth and transmit the vital energy of awakening. Democracy is a central theme of the poems, but not in a political sense as much as in the spiritual sense of universal equity. Carpenter sees every aspect of existence as part of the gradual awakening of spirit. If one has the eyes to see, one will see the emergence of the soul in every creature, landscape, and occurrence on Earth. This is a book that can be read slowly, savoring the taste of a page or two at a time. It is also a book that can be read in the full absorption of a single long sitting. It is a book to be read once and then again, and again and again.

This publication includes an original introduction by Jeff Carreira which offers each of the following:

• The biographical context of Edward Carpenter’s life and the circumstances surrounding the writing of this book.
• An explanation and interpretation of the spiritual perspective and message that is expressed in the poems.
• A description of Carpenter’s influence on the development of alternative spirituality as it took shape in the time since he lived.

Speaking with the voice of revelation Carpenter claims to be dreaming the dream of the soul’s slow disentanglement. He has seen and celebrates the perfection that lies beyond our misunderstanding of things. He knows that all is equally beautiful, the highest most lofty aspects of life as well as the lowest and most depraved, all are equally beautiful in the eyes of divinity. This is not naïve optimism, but rather an expression of the unity of nondual oneness.

When you read this book of poems, you will be reading a direct transmission of Carpenter’s awakening to cosmic consciousness. The voice of the poem is the voice of the nondual oneness that exists emergent in all things. You will travel across the world seeing her face as it shines forth through nature and beauty, but also as she reveals herself in deformity and treachery. This absolute equality of being, the ultimate democracy, is the inspiration behind not only these poems, but also all of Carpenter’s lifelong work as a social activist. Having seen that all is One, he could do nothing less than struggle to see that underlying unity revealed in all things by everyone.

The voice of Oneness in these poems warns against the many ways that we hide from the truth of who we are. The pursuit of material wealth, in and of itself no less beautiful than anything else, cannot ultimately bring us to the true fulfillment of wholeness. We cannot find our true Self if we separate from others and see them as less than ourselves. We must eliminate the distance that separates us from one another and from the natural world that is our home. We are called to embrace all species as equally significant and honor the sanctity of all of life. But this is a nondual truth, and so it is not about a possibility that exists somewhere other than here and now. In the end Carpenter claims only to be holding a mirror up so that we might gaze upon the face of divinity.