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    The Train
    The Train
    The Train
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    The Train

    By Gregory

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    The Train is a poem that Gregory's Muse one day sent—quite unexpectedly!—roaring, racing, and rumbling along the mainline of his imagination over 25 years ago. (He was laboring on another poem at the time!) Every two or three years, on receiving train-orders from his Muse, he has been hauling it off the sidetrack he always shunted it onto when the inspirations to work on it dried up and the Muse was ordering him to work on other projects. He'd then spend a few day running it along the mainline of his imagination so he could follow his Muse's demands that he paint and polish it to a limited level of perfection. Of course, each Muse-inspired effort not only added paint and polish to this train, but deepened its complexity, meanings, and power. His Muse has recently intimated that with this most recent of efforts, The Train is now ready to race along the mainlines of other imaginations besides his own.
    This poetic allegory depicts our human life as a ride aboard the Train of Fate, which rolls, rumbles, roars, and horn-blasts along the mainline tracks of this desert of an illusion we call time. Our ticket-to-ride on this train is our physical birth and our only way off it, is at that brief flag-stop we call death.
    All human beings exist aboard this Train of Fate in two modalities: the dominant, alpha-modality in this modern, rationality-worshipping, ego-glorifying age, obviously being our precious, pandered-to, personal ego. The secondary, usually submissive (almost to the point of non-existence) modality, is our True Self, our Spirit, which incarnates into our infant—"naked-ape"—body and psyche at birth in order to enhance Its own level of consciousness while concomitantly spiritualizing our infant, flesh-bone-and-blood, "naked-ape" body.
    This dual-modality reality renders our lives aboard this swift-flying Train of Fate, as a constant struggle, as an unfolding array of crucial and life-defining choices between a debased existence of relentlessly kowtowing to the tyrant of our ego, or a life of humbly serving the needs of our True Self, our Spirit. It is a struggle between an existence that is small, dark, hard, mean and self-serving, or a life that is expansive, bright, compassionate and Spirit-serving.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGregory
    Release dateJun 6, 2018
    ISBN9780463740231
    The Train
    Author

    Gregory

    Gregory is, foremost, a mystic and a shaman, and only secondarily a writer. In becoming a mystic and a shaman he has, in the parlance of Carlos Castaneda's shaman/teacher, Don Juan, he has lost his shields, has lost his normal human defences against the psychic, telepathic, and emotional emanations—positive and negative—of those with whom he interacts. Because of this, he lives in solitude and accordingly must remain anonymous. * * * * * Since the Internet has become, quite literally, an incomprehensibly vast and complex Indra's Web, not only of billions of computers and exabytes of electronic information, but an equally vast and complex Indra's Web of psychic, telepathic and emotional information, not all of it positive and healthy, and against which he lacks the shields to protect himself, Gregory spends very little time enmeshed in that Web and is not entangled in any social media sub-webs. * * * * * The Muse and Man Press logo installed here in lieu of a picture of Gregory, represents a vision manifested 40 years ago to Gregory by his Muse, the wise and knowledgeable, non-physical Being who inspires all his written works. It is a stylised representation of a large bird enfolding within its wings a smaller bird. Symbolically, on a basic level, this represents that non-physical Being embracing Gregory's spirit-being and inspiring his writing, while on a more expansive level, it represents a family of such Beings embracing Humanity and inspiring its spiritual evolution. The visionary inspiration for it was given in conjunction with the refrain from John Denver's song, The Wings That Fly Us Home: And the spirit fills the darkness of the heavens. It fills the endless yearning of the soul. It lives within a star too far to dream of. It lives within each part and is the whole: It's the fire and the wings that fly us home . . .

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      The Train - Gregory

      The Train

      by

      Gregory

      Copyright 2018 by:

      Gregory

      Published by

      Muse & Man Press

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      The distant train horn s o u n d s . . . . .

      s o u n d s . . . . .

      and

      s o u n d s . . . . .

      across the

      vast black desert night;

      s o u n d s . . . . .

      and

      s o u n d s . . . . .

      hauntingly marking off dark and empty

      back roads,

      a grid of potentials and choices

      beneath the map-thin skin of this

      MATERIAL REALM

      of

      La Trinité Terrible,

      of relentless

      Process,

      of ineluctable

      Necessity,

      of intractable

      Karma,

      that

      hitches us to the stone-boat

      of

      Physical Existence;

      that

      chains us to the millwheel

      of

      Physical Survival;

      that

      fetters us in the courtroom

      of

      Cosmic Justice;

      a truly terrible trinity

      that forces

      on us

      the ineluctable

      whip-lashing illusion

      of time;

      that forces

      on us

      the need

      to get out of bed

      every morning and struggle

      to stay

      hitched to that stone-boat;

      the need

      to get out of bed

      every morning and struggle

      to remain

      chained to that millwheel;

      the need

      to get out of bed

      every morning and struggle

      to linger

      fettered in that

      courtroom of accountability for our

      choices and actions;

      the need

      to get out of bed

      every morning and willingly

      bare our backs

      to time's whip-lashing illusion;

      with this

      MATERIAL REALM

      ruled by

      La Trinité Terrible,

      being a

      map-thin skin of a reality

      always flowing from the

      unlimited potential

      of a

      yet-to-be-chosen,

      and

      yet-to-be manifested

      aspect of

      Process,

      that we call the

      Future,

      on through

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