OMG the divine

Divine? The divine to me is the source, THE SOURCE!! Call it the uncreated primal... primordial energy... universal-timeless-force... the Force... the Chi forming substance... the potential within the quantum field, the immortal, the immortal I AM, The Celestial, the Buddtha, the Tao, the Core, the Primal Information, the Primal Intention… whatever, it can not be owned with a name. It can only be experienced. Experienced within… experienced as a purity…and witnessed without as the driver within all things… the divine brims with the enthusiasm/passion of life. Heavenly is the feeling. And the divine experience puts space/time in its temporal place… puts the impermanence, the unreliableness, the ass-kick of this existence in perspective. In my poetry, I term the divine in various ways. There are so many traditions and scriptures which give name to the divine. I have come to adopt several. Important to me is to make understood that the divine is an experience, is an experience of feeling/energy. It is an experience in the moment… contains only the freshness of being. Often in my work instead of divine, I use the word Essence. “The Essence” I like as it has a scientific connotation. The term brings the divine towards the realm of fact, and away from the mystical. Quantum Theory Physics suggests that the foundation of creation, the basis wherein sub-atomic "particles" are created and destroyed is a Quantum Field. As a poet, I see this as the playing field of the divine. The divine can be understood as the potential underlying creation… as a potent pregnant essence. “Essential Enthusiasm” is another way I speak of the divine. Such avoids the muddling of anthropomorphism.

However, “Beloved” is my favorite. The experience of divinity, of life’s essential enthusiasm is the feeling of love. The experience I have within, my connection within, is as if with a lover. And I confess, I have borrowed “Beloved” from the wonderous Sufi Poets of the Middle-Ages. From such as Kabir, Nanak, and Muhammed ad-Din Rumi, who I think nailed it. Nailed the poetry of Self-Knowledge on the head. And much of the perspective of Buddhism, of Siddhartha… with the Buddtha as the essential singular consciousness all is embedded within… rings for me as a worthy way to perceive divinity. So too, I am much the fan of the Tao Te Ching and Laozi, and of the later Taoist and Zen poets. Laozi knew the Essence as the Tao, the Way (of the Celestial). I like that slant. Tao-ism equates divinity with an immortal singular force, with the (celestial) (harmonious) source of nature. So, I use in my verse “the Tao” and “the Celestial” liberally. “Ren”… kind-love… comes from the Confucian tradition. And from my Rastafarian friends comes the term “the One-Love”. All are words, which are just ways to point to THE experience.