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NATURAL BORN BIRTHING PORTALS

© 2009 Howard McQueen

We are born creator-builders, imaginers ...

We are realizing we are also quantum-equipped birthing portals,

with an adolescent grip on consciousness,

constantly birthing our thoughts, ideas and concepts into the world.

We carry an emergent awareness

returning inward, ready to unfold,

stories to be rewritten and re-told

a chorus, a crescendo of “do-overs” [1] in our queue.

Picking up momentum,

aligning in… Continue

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POETRY OF LONGING KEPT ALIVE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Letting go and falling into Surrender

starts with shining your light of awareness

into the places where you are hiding out.

The sooner you surrender your helplessness

room will be opened for the arrival of Grace.

Allow everything to be liberated

to be whatever it is

and there will be an immediate

lessening of confusion through projection.

Seeing clearly what is, we can live in peace.

You… Continue

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ITS OUR WORLD TO RECLAIM AND RE-IMAGINE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Yes indeed, it truly is our external world.

A bit messy, yes

Well, what else would you expect, with all the shenanigans and all the sufferin’ succotash going on.

Well, well, what to do about it?

Mmmmmmm. Lets start with my own inner world, where everything is created that shapes my outer world.

A bit messy, yes

Well, what else would you expect, with all the shenanigans and all the sufferin’ succotash going… Continue

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IN THIS MOMENT OF CATASTROPHIC LOSS

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Grieve deeply in this moment of attachments lost.

Of Suffering, give it all to CREATOR.

It was never yours to carry.

You were, are and will always be the child of creation –

Bear your fruit and live in the grace of the gifts of this Kingdom of Creation.

With this Grief is summoned the Angel of Death –

Providing the sacred service to carry away burdens of guilt and remorse

And even the seemingly often cursed human… Continue

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HOME IN THE VAST ONENESS OF UNKNOWING

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Fundamentally, there is only consciousness,
deeply identified with its forms.

Humans thinking themselves to be like a tortoise,
their only home, the self-constructed shell,
or any make-do container to safe harbor identity.

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FORGIVE US OUR TRANSGRESSIONS

© 2009 Howard McQueen

It all begins with an aggression
towards oneself,
often then jumps as projection upon someone else,
escalating to a transgression,
this inner aggression flung upon another.

Perhaps the other has the sense of being
to see the projection, and diffuse the bomb of reaction,
so that what is now loosed
becomes a wondrous
boomerang of a double gift
of FORGIVENESS.

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FASCINATION WITH TEACHER

© 2009 Howard McQueen

We are magnetically/energetically drawn to those

that hold the unfolding of our experience.

They hold pointers,

both negative and positive charges,

to guide us deeper into suffering,

as well as into our own central expression of Oneness.

We sense in them a talent,

they seemingly ply so well to their trade.

Deep inside, this gift has yet to blossom in us,

still timid, slightly shy, somewhat… Continue

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COMFORT IN THE SKIN

© 2009 Howard McQueen

It is so very easy to take notice

the shinning through radiance of another.

Presence shines through their form.

They exhibit a comfort in being in-their-skin,

Fresh, alive, vulnerable, a kind of letting go in the world.

A letting Grace manage whatever is to be encountered.

Is it possible to be this trusting in your skin?

You’ve been busy distrusting most of your life.

How’s that been workin’… Continue

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CANTEENS FOR THE SOUL

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Doubt, suspicion and cynicism
the trio of advisors
often tell
stay clear of that well,
it is likely tainted.
And we walk right past the purist of springs
offering to slake our thirst and
deeply nourish our soul.

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BEFORE ENTANGLEMENT

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Before we became entangled

We experienced direct engagement

With joy, discovery, play and our innocence.

Then we were taught rules

We learned, observing by example

We were bent by will, domesticated

To perform, reform and conform to the world

To survive, then succeed and thrive.

In our innocence and naivety,

We accepted this as the gospel.

In revising our Now

We let all these obsessions and… Continue

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DIS-ENTANGLED

© 2009 Howard McQueen

Be fully present and aware
To what is arising
Internally,
as you experience the outside world.

Notice.
Feel into it, without judgment
Hang with it.
Be not persuaded to do anything
other than to honestly see an obscured facet of yourself.
Especially when it appears in someone else!

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DISAPPOINTMENT

DISAPPOINTMENT

© 2009 Howard McQueen

I was to be the Host of the show

and it started to blow

as I was told folks could not show.

Reschedule and holster your fragile ego,

its way past time to do so.

Be the Silence!

Who are these children that speak and run wild

In their naïveté and exuberance?

The answer they reveal:

life is a patchwork of priorities to be navigated

not resisted: split up families,… Continue

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BARNACLES OF LIFE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

We attach ourselves to people, objects in the world, beliefs, …

Attachments, as we learn to feel into them, begin to reveal

An ability for us to honestly appraise the energetic reactions and responses that encouraged our “attaching to” these relationships.

Then, we can also feel into and surrender to our choice for continuing to sustain and the quality of these habitual patterns.

Attributes like “how tightly we hold” an attachment… Continue

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AUTHENTICITY ESCAPES AGAIN

© 2009 Howard McQueen

A powerful energetically charged life situation arises.
My habit – become small and contracted
then inflate the Angry double as stand-in
to act out in inverse behalf, anger and rage,
smokescreen for tiny, powerless, victimized self,
that escapes away
scampering into the labyrinth
hiding places of the mind.

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THE DETRITUS OF OUR IGNORANCE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

As we sweep aside the detritus of Ignorance

And allow the truth to flow,

unimpeded and unrestricted through our energetic being,

we liberate a unimagined potential to rebuild the new infrastructure,

to incubate and grow by living together in Love, respect and freedom.

The cloak, smoke, veil, wool pulled-over-our-eyes (whatever you call it) gig is up!

Awareness has been tripped, the tipping point into we-ness, transpersonal… Continue

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WHY AREN’T YOU MORE #!@~! EMOTIONAL

© 2009 Howard McQueen

I was with a friend the other night and she was recounting a story of her best friend, who’s son was having repeated difficulties in his long-term romantic relationship. It seems his long standing live-in girl friend would occasionally leave him to try on greener pastures. Thus far, she has always come back.

My friend became very enrapt in telling this tale. She was very emotionally involved and spoke on and on about the debilitating stress this… Continue

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DESERT BEDOUIN ROSE

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

AaaaaaOOOOooooMmmmm ...

Oh sacred Bedouin [1] spirit,

wrapped in colorful shawl,

you gaze out from your desert of desolation,

stripped down to your beauty, essential and raw.

Your intoxicating, percolating spirit

pooling in the darkness of your eyes,

immersed so deeply,

steeped in dark, brooding Mystery.

The rose, tucked away in a book of fine desert prose,

one thousand years… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on October 3, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

ONENESS ALWAYS ALLOWING

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

Opposition
to oppose
to counter balance
Juxtaposed

The Oneness ALLOWS,
does not judge

Therefore sees all sides
of the fleeting faces of paradox

~ ~ ~

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RAPTURE OF VOLCANO

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

Such rapture and beauty
held at bay.
The heart of your volcano,
smouldering,
wanting to erupt with such force
it takes the breath away.

Thus in my own way
I root for thee to be released
from your bondage
and secret vows with Grief.

~ ... ~ ... ///>! - HM

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BAKED IN FULL SPECTRUM RADIANCE

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

It makes a difference sometimes,

being four thousand feet

closer to the

hydrogen-fusion reactor

we call Our Sun, old sol,

warming us,

ninety-three million miles away.

Blue Skies and the Red Rocks of Sedona,

these ancient carved landscapes

are encouraging and provoking me

to step off the trails

to wake up well ahead of the dawn

to really drink in and appreciate the freedoms ...

Plenty… Continue

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