Where the Spirit Speaks to Its Own The Passion of Spiritual Awakening
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.04.2003
Verlag
Barry Long BooksMaße (L/B/H)
22/14/1.5 cm
Gewicht
354 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-899324-16-3
This collection of poetic and mystical writings by Barry Long reveals the source of his inspiration as a spiritual master, which, as for any true mystic, is total devotion to the divine. Everything in the book is the outpouring of a mystic voice arising from this passion. Every poem is an expression of the same inspiration, whether he writes out of love for a woman or the passion that brings the mystic to a personal encounter with the impersonal, the absolute, or God. The book is also the story of an ordinary man transfixed by extraordinary moments of truth. The course of Barry Long's spiritual awakening was punctuated by the impulse to express in song and verse what was happening. These original writings are in the book in chronological order, accompanied by the author's more recent biographical commentary. Early on, his inner voice spoke through the ordinary form of popular songs; later as a kind of rhetorical monologue in verse. The words capture the power and immediacy of real spiritual insight. You don't need to know anything about Barry Long's spiritual teaching to be captivated by the penetrating honesty, drama and vitality of these writings. They are full of yearning, love, crisis, torment and vision. They reach to the frontiers of death and insanity, where only the mystic stays sane. These poems are not artistic flights of fancy, prettifying experience. Some of them bear the raw mark of the dark night of the soul. Others are sweet, light-hearted, even humorous. Barry Long's spiritual life is not lived out of this world. His poems are engrained with commonplace details, humanity, the business of living, and they are accessible.All in all this book is remarkable, rare and unique,especially because the voice that speaks in the poems is so undeniably genuine. It is the spirit, speaking to its own.
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