Kundalini Splendor

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Monday, March 30, 2015

Thoughts on Bliss and Devastation 




The last few years have brought us perilously close to an unspoken fear that we are losing the battle against violence, and that the climate of relative decency we have known is no longer holding firm. Or even that, if we do not do our best to battle against it, we may be facing the start of an unlawful age.
Ellen Hinsley

Ellen Hinsley is a poet of extremely refined and meticulous taste.  For years, she has investigated the recent events of Europe, especially the crimes and atrocities that have taken place after World War II.  She is extremely reflective in her writing and her poetry is the result of a sensibility thoroughly grounded in the traditional humanistic tradition.  She is highly intellectual.  She deals with the fundamental questions and provides no easy answers.

Her work is challenging to those who seek soft answers to essential questions, such as, is the human species inherently prone to violence?  How can we deny our own culpability in committing destructive acts against the "enemy" as well as the innocent (most of war's victims are civilians)?  But also, we must ponder, how is it that regeneration so often follows destruction?

Her work also brings us to another key question: how can we immerse ourselves in the uplifting work of such writers as Rumi, Hafiz, and Kabir, when the world around us appears to be going up in flames?  How can we dwell on the bliss states of Kundalini when so many across the globe are suffering extreme deprivation and pain?  What good is sacred poetry to someone facing a death squad in the Middle East?  Are we indeed facing the actual destruction of Western Civilization, in an era when all moral law and respect for human life are abandoned?  What might the future hold?  Are we facing the imminent arrival of a new Dark Age, such as followed the collapse of Rome in a regression which lasted centuries before the Renaissance brought recovery?

However, whatever happens to our world as it currently exists, Kundalini itself will remain, for it is the creative life force of the universe itself.  Its currents pulse throughout the cosmos, in every atom and particle that exists.  To speak of a massive leap of humanity to a new level of consciousness as a result of such chaos may seem naive, but even that is a possibility.  And if humanity does not survive the destruction, then new worlds will be created, new universes formulated, and new species spring forth in this unknown future.

In the meantime, we cling to our beloved sacred poets, who give us strength to survive and hope for our future.  As Rumi said, we must dance no matter what dangers surround us in our current world.

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