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--------------- Boogie Street lyrics O Crown of Light, O Darkened One, I never thought we’d meet. You kiss my lips, and then it’s done: I’m back on Boogie Street. A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat. I’m what I am, and what I am, Is back on Boogie Street. And O my love, I still recall The pleasures that we knew; The rivers and the waterfall, Wherein I bathed with you. Bewildered by your beauty there, I’d kneel to dry your feet. By such instructions you prepare A man for Boogie Street. O Crown of Light, O Darkened One… So come, my friends, be not afraid. We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear. Tho’ all the maps of blood and flesh Are posted on the door, There’s no one who has told us yet What Boogie Street is for. O Crown of Light, O Darkened One, I never thought we’d meet. You kiss my lips, and then it’s done: I’m back on Boogie Street. A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go . . .
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The
Mystical Heart – Part I For Coleman
Frederic
Lord Leighton Clytie Oh
Crown of Light Oh
Darkened One I
never thought we’d meet You
kissed my lips And
then you’re gone I’m back on Boogie Street.
Leonard
Cohen – Boogie Street
As a storyteller I sing, listen too and contemplate songs for the mystical heart. This often makes me dance with joy and weep for the sorrow of the world and this experience of separateness from Love called Tony Cuckson tramping the world of Boogie Street. I have at times tried to define what a mystical heart is, thinking this would be the key to opening Heaven’s door. I have attempted on various occasions in my life to sneak in the back way. One often pays a heavy price for knocking on the rear of Heaven’s Door. I have been graced to meet with the Oh
Crown of Light Oh Darkened One. The Crown of Light Oh Darkened One has kissed me and it has opened my mystical heart. I certainly never thought we would meet. Certainly I could never have thought what such a meeting would be like. It is beyond words, beyond time, beyond anything that you might try to say about it.
Yet after the Kiss the Beloved leaves and one is back in time and space and form that Leonard Cohen refers to as Boogie Street. One is back in a place where you to often forget that you are the dance of Creation and you become a hungry ghost of separation that is more like living as the Boogie Man.
For this storyteller the mystical heart is a heart that remembers what it is here for on Boogie Street. This is not simply a cerebral remembrance. It is the felt intelligence of the heart in love with Creation and neither separated from the Kiss that lights up and animates this Creation moment to moment. The Work on Boogie Street is to live this Kiss as an experience in the body for the highest good of all.
When you meet with the one who kisses you fully awake from your sleep in the tower of separateness from Love you absolutely know that you never thought you would meet what is being given to you. You never thought it could be this beautiful. The Kiss awakens the beauty within you. After the Kiss your Work is to be faithful to how the Crown of Light Oh Darkened One wishes to move through you as Love in Action.
Of course you will betray this Kiss. I have betrayed it and the Crown of Light has left. In reality it does not in fact leave. It is you that leaves. This is not some kind of punishment. It leaves because this storyteller introduced a third party into the intimacy. This third party I call “Little Me.” Little me loves nothing more than claiming everything for his personal sense of self-importance.
Only the Crown of Light and the Kiss are not and never can be separate. They are never for my personal use but for the glory of Love. They are One and bring you to the full knowledge of your at one ment with Creation. This Kiss takes you deep and deeper into the knowing that you and Love are not separate.
Later in this song Leonard Cohen states so beautifully, “It is in Love that we are made, in Love we disappear.” Except that we do not want to disappear into the no thing ness of Love.
To fall deeply into this experience you need to be grounded. You need your feet firmly on solid ground. You need humility and you need faith in the creative process that creates life in each eternal moment. This is the faith in the power of the Kiss to take you into your essential nature that is Love expressing as you.
You feel this Kiss in and through the body. The body becomes infused with light and delight. This knowing of the Kiss of the Beloved is not a debate but a dance. You are loved all over. There are on secret places, no places of shame, no places of doubt. You get to live on Boogie Street as the dance that Creation intended you to be.
After the Kiss and the betrayal of this gift of grace there is the long search for the doorway back into the mystical heart. It is the door from time into the timeless. Paradoxically speaking, realising the dance of your timeless nature is the only real and lasting way to have the time of your life.
One thing the Kiss will do, if you remain faithful to it, is that it will perfume your life. To quote the mystical American poet Mary Oliver There
is a life without Love It
is not worth A
bent penny A
scuffed shoe Or
a dead dog left ten days unburied.”
This doesn’t mean that you won’t be visited by the shadows of separation that visit all our lives. It may be the case that you are visited with more. Except, that behind all the shadow stuff is the Work. The Work of bringing the gold out of the shadow. This is real wealth and this is real prosperity.
It is the treasure that the Master Jesus Christ tells us doesn’t get corrupted. It has been alchemised. It is the straw that you have turned into the gold of eternal life. A life beyond time and space existing within time and space. Heaven experienced on Earth in a body infused with the Crown of Light Oh Darkened One.
This Work isn’t a job. It is the Work of Love in Action. It is Work that is empowered by the experience of meeting with the Crown of Light Oh Darkened One. It is faith in, and the practice of, connecting through the mystical heart and allowing action to move from the mystery and power of Love into this world of form.
The Crown of Light has kissed this storyteller once or twice. It has been enough. I blew it when I claimed it as my personal power. It left and I was left to return to Boogie Street. When I arrived back on Boogie Street it was as if I had lost the Universe. All the lights went out. Except that the meeting with the Crown of Light Oh Darkened One changed everything and life on Boogie Street was never to be the same again.
After the Kiss, and my betrayal of its real purpose, I lived a secret life of inner searching. I travelled to India and lived there looking for the way out of Boogie Street. I attempted it in some fairly risky and destructive ways. Later in life I would do the same thing again.
Most of the time I have been looking for the Crown of Light and ignored the Darkened One. Now, I am still afraid of the Dark but I don’t fight it so much. Now, the dark reminds me of the power of the feminine, the power of birthing, the power of the dark womb of Creation that is empty but forever full. I now invite this birthing through silence. I am no longer afraid of not knowing. I begin to trust more deeply the intelligence of a heart willing to invite the Crown of Light together with the Oh Darkened One.
I never thought I would meet with the Crown of Light Oh Darkened One. Some friends say it has left me mad for the light and left me with a longing that this world of form cannot fill. This, I think, is not so. I love this world of matter. I am not one who thinks it is something to get away from through transendance. For this storyteller this world is the dance of the Crown of Light in the form of matter. The world is to be loved and not escaped from.
This matter is the Darkened One. Each is needed for the dance of Creation to be. This storyteller advocates loving matter rather than trying to transcend it. When we do this we will begin to value our Mother Earth as she is intended to be valued. We will begin to value the feminine and we will begin to birth an new vision.
When we learn to love this earth as matter and as Mother – when we learn to love our bodies (as well as our minds) and love this dark creative force of birthing that is forever new we can dance on Boogie Street. We will be the dance of Love in form and learn to know that the Kiss is always waiting to grace us. This Kiss is our birthright. The Crown of Light Oh Darkened One will wait forever for us to be willing to be Loved into Eternal Life. Dance on Brothers and Sisters. © Tony Cuckson 2009
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