Merger With Another
Phenomenal Eco-Systems

by Jeffrey S. Landau

"Out of Body Experiences",
"Romantic Love",
the love of a mother and father
for his or her infant,
"Frankenstein Unbound",
"Getting High",
the World of Dreams,
Sex, Beautiful Music,
"Regression to 'Pre-ego States",
Creating Art....

From the most acceptable and highly regarded cultural forms, to widely acknowledged spiritual experiences, from fundamental ways of "knowing" reality to psychic aberrations,
the attempt to lose ourselves,
to break the boundaries,
to get out of our own way,
to break out of our narrow and repetitive, constraining state of mind,
to see things in a new way,
to know it, to be like it, to devour it, to eat it,
to be free, to have feelings,
to stop watching, comparing, competing,
to get off it, to rest,
is a constant and relentless force
and desire within us.

From form and structure and walls
to "no-form", no name, no-thing.
Back and forth. And back again.

All ways to know reality. Who you are. Who I am.
A relentless demand that we be "in reality",
that we "get out of our own head"
and relate to others as they really are.

Jeff Landau, InnerRESOURCES Publications, Copyright, 2002

For this poem and the article it came from,
see the link below