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 programming fall way
Disempowered, no longer resisted in any way.

And we come full circle, progressively disentangled from past and conditioning.

We are governed in the Silence
It calls us to open more fully
To live fiercely, completely vulnerable
With whatever we encounter.

This is the real news
Simulcast now on every channel of Silence.


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