Below are the poems for each stage, as found in the book, but this time all in order in one place. Enjoy!
1
Confounded
We are found
Educated in emergence
One with the separateness
Reveling in existence
Drenched
In our connectedness
To love purely
Convinced
In our openness
That we do not know
2
Body etched
Mind shaped
We are bent
To the reality
Of separate existence
To survive
Long enough
To become
The divine
Oneness
We once were
3
Not sorry
I have needs
You’ll just have to
Take second seat
It’s about me
But about me
I need
I spin in my
Self-center
Vacant void
Missing something
I can’t quite explain
Restrained
Voice vacant
Void of all but
My own
Human nature
4
Suddenly populated
These people I
Long predated
Pre-dated
Have they always been here?
Pious I
Righteous in my
Newfound awareness
Here and now isn’t
It enough to help
Martyr myself
To be better than them
Pious I
Am split
Above and below
5
Look
I can’t keep
Martyring
Bartering for priority
It’s not me
Harsh ruler
It is ideology
Determines
You are lesser
Or equal
In my infinite wisdom
Thank god you have me
To show you the way
6
It’s exhausting
Policing the rights
And wrongs
Of millions
The throngs
Of people
So ignorant
I give up
This need to be
All knowing
Just let me be
Maybe just see
My example
And know
How wrong you are
I’m not wrong
I’m not wrong
I’m not wrong
7
Reality cracked
My foundation broken
Wide open
I am wrong
You are wrong
Society, sobriety
And your rules
Are wrong
Everything popular
Everything brought before
Wrong
And nothing to be done
Come rapture
Come ruin
And the only thing true is
The falsehood
Of everything between
The cracks
8
Dig deeper
Through the cracks
Came the light
See here
The pieces
Broken down
The mosaic
Laid now
Before me
See the truth
The connected roots
Dig deeper
Because the truth
Is never on the surface
Return to this
To the ancient
Truth
Whispering
In every breath
We inhale
9
Consciousness in breath
Can never be forever
Turn me now
Into the energy
For maybe this
Will save me
From the fear
Of the fear itself
Of the end
And my own
Not knowing
Pure consciousness
Encapsulated
Yes, capitulated
I surrender
This mortal form early
For maybe this
Will save me
From the fear
Of the fear
Of self separated
From self
10
Softly I reclaim
This human form
Its purpose
Rejoined
Compassionate existence
Two parts of the whole
For the divine does not crash
Into the scene
Vanquishing
Violent
Driven by the needs
That it created
To validate itself
But grows
Like seeds into vine
Born out of the needs
That created Divine
From divine
Expansive
Connected
Existence
11
And the divine emerges quietly
Born unto the scene
That coaxes it forward
Like an orchid
Slowly
Fed on the energy of allowing
And the light of letting be
Perfectly imperfect
The divine resolves into sight
And the shadows of what came before
Fade away
Imperceptibly
Until
There
Are
None
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