A free-verse rant on the false realities in humanity and spirituality. |
Gripping drumming sings laterally, repetitively - thum-thump-thum-thum. I lie in the center of a bonfire lit sacred circle. The heat of the fire awakening my body, the passion of the drums shaking the foundations of the Earth. Lucidity takes me and I fly away into dark night, through stars and time, to the ancestral past of ancient Sumerian gods. Enlil and Enkei – God and Satan. Genesis recounted and stolen, given to Adam and Eve, a lie – stolen myths. They were common people shaken to their souls cast into work camps by power-mongrels licking lips of greedy, starving faces morally bereft – ragged and homeless suturing the edifices of society - crusts peeled back, chipped and scarred scorched by illusions of lavishness and decadence. I leap through time. I witness a Sumerian, Ziusudra, building the boat preceeding the global flood. Another theft given to Adam’s blood forever flowing down red as my anger at the lies preached as truths of a loving god. Intolerance, genocide, and deaths by stones and swords reveal yet more lies. Cracked carapaces sewn together with threads of sinew making dexterous exercises paramount for survival - quickest martial expertise. Justice, preserved lies, touted as truth. Enlil fathers Marduk who is Zeus to the Greeks, thus another pantheon is born mirrored by Romans, Norsemen, Hindi, and Celts - the same gods, but different names. In the land of Canaan, resettled from Ur in Sumer, Abraham fathers Isaac and Ishmael, thus Judaism and Islam is born. The Romans, Norsemen, Hindi, and Celts flourish and prosperity reigns. Goddesses and Gods abound, yet wars still ravage mankind; Greeks and Trojans, Normans and Picts, Celts and Angles. The people become slaves to havoc-ravaging maniacs selling swords of rage and pestilence that medicines cannot heal. Fear-gripped masses are huddling in soaking ambiance, water-logged and freezing in Winter-frozen heaps, frothed and symbolized by drowning bodies cavorting amongst the gravestones of wayward heroes gyrating in death-throes and chuckling at the ironic facets of lives not lived, wasted energy spent on frivolous meandering amongst patriots and rampant regimes ceaselessly changing, but remaining stagnant and hopeless. Souls re-emerge new, fresh, brighter than before threading rapture and torture, to live longer, forever studying re-emergence. I fly further towards the present. I see Christianity emerge from Judaism as Jesus reveals hope and salvation out of repression and tyranny. But Christianity breeds intolerance and intolerance gives in to crusades - bloody and sweeping - like a locust cloud blowing across the face of the planet. Pagan Gods replaced by saints, sabbats co-opted by holy days, rites and rituals hereticized, and people burned and slaughtered in the name of a God proclaiming “I am Love…the Light and the Way.” Tyrants’ wrath sever legality from justice. Innocence is lost to dogs warring for scraps of refuse as if they were gold. Charlatans choking on hopes and dreams lost beyond regaining: Valhalla – Nirvana – Heaven, lost and inaccessible. Illusions of truths pondered but dismissed by errant minstrels singing praises to heroes undeserving of adulation. False spirits haunting, seeking to prove that charlatans are truths mislabeled as gods worshipped as devils. I slip back into the present and open my eyes. The experiences of my vision-quest are fresh in my mind. I see now the fallacy that organized religion embodies. Religion is not truth. Truth is not dogma. Truth is spirituality. Spirituality is Sacred Geometry. Mathematics and geometrical progression, quantifiable – measureable, as scientific understanding of creation - elemental and organic - a symbiosis of energies connecting everything to everything: environment, consciousness, enlightenment, divinity… Me. |