Recovery

35 posts

ORACLE OF THE SNAKE

  Snake medicine pulsates through my being, unleashing immense powers of creativitybringing psychic energy into awareness and channeling this magic towards our need for healing The kundalini power arising from the root chakra ascends through our snake-like spinal columnI envision a serpentine double-helix armoring our spines and our minds through […]

STACATTO IMAGINATION

my mind reverberates at hypomanic speed to the rhythms of the flickering flames–seven multicolored pillars of fire surround my sacred circle of evolving recovery arising untamed… this monument to the pyromanic is made of the vestiges of dozens of votives…i summon powers of magical incantation from a pantheon of sacred […]

TRUST THE PROCESS

  this is a poem about recoverya poem as metaphor for my journey towards synchronicity with my higher power none of us created the scaffolding of the 12-step universeno one created it because we co-created as a decentralized collective building on the insights of those who came before and we […]

PSYCHEDELIC JESUS

light and sound become energized and fused into onewe see fractals in the moon and volcanic power in the sunpsychedelic synergy has transformed who we are and what we can becomewe project universal liberation as the cosmic project that is to be done i have learned that i do not […]

ANANSI

i am a vessel for sacred forces arising in a moment of unprecedented global perilwe must draw strength from our collective unconscious to resist a fascist menace that has grown ruthless, desperate, and feral i am anansi the spider weaving webs of wisdom, life, and lovei transmute psychic pain and […]

CUNNING ENEMY

i am only forty-one, but addiction has been a cunning enemy of my life for at least three decadesat first compulsive sexual stimulation and fantasybut also a foundational addiction to the power of intellect and self will while my head branded me an atheist, my heart and soul kept me […]

KARMIC TRANSITION

i have tried to cry for days, just feeling that grief is the right feeling to feelemotive songs have helped me choke up for protracted moments, but again and again the feelings pass and my mind clearsi wonder why i am not more ground down by this–why i am not […]

MORE WILL BE REVEALED

in your eyes is placed a power greater than all of their hoarded goldyour eyes are wormholes to a future of humility and grace so deeply rooted that its seeds will growwe build power and resilience to feed the richness of our soulswe have so many toxic patterns and toxic […]

SONG OF SURRENDER

here i am–humbly and blissfully imperfectreckoning with harm i have caused by striving to be accountable and doing work to transform i am decentering selfdismantling the illusion of my willful power to control the world around me this is my attempt at surrenderand her matrix of liberation is opening new […]