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    The True Spirit Of Poet And Mystic Robert Lax
    The True Spirit Of Poet And Mystic Robert Lax
    The True Spirit Of Poet And Mystic Robert Lax
    Audiobook58 minutes

    The True Spirit Of Poet And Mystic Robert Lax

    Written by Michael N. McGregor

    Narrated by Phil Cousineau

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    About this audiobook

    Robert Lax is one of the great experimental poets of the 20th century, a daring and original avant-garde writer who was sought out as a sage and a mentor. He was a circus performer, a clown and a juggler, and well known for being a close friend of Thomas Merton. McGregor knew and loved this man and wrote a biography to make this remarkable man’s life and works better known to more people.

    He says of Lax, “Robert Lax was the most significant person I’d ever met...I felt his life was unusual and fascinating and it was a good opportunity to explore someone so unique and special in both a spiritual and artistic way.” As Lax searched for a vocation he decided that perhaps a person following a religion of love ought to be a prophet of love. Lax had the courage to go his own way and did not follow any shortcuts in his pursuit of truth and God.

    McGregor interprets Lax’s philosophy of life as one in which “love goes in all directions. It takes you deeper into yourself and it takes you into other people’s lives and into your interactions with them. He felt that life is meant to be a unity and all things in harmony. That didn’t mean just all people in harmony, that meant our interior in harmony with our exterior, our sleeping and dreaming in harmony with our waking consciousness, all things coming together in that way.” (hosted by Phil Cousineau)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Dimensions Foundation
    Release dateNov 19, 2015
    ISBN9781987130256
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