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Rodger
Housden
–
Soul Friend - Mo Anam Cara
"If we deny our happiness, resist our
satisfaction, we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
We must risk delight.
- Jack Gilbert-A Brief for the Defense"
Roger Housden is the author of the “Ten
Poems” series of poetry appreciations books.
These are books that we two soul friend, my partner Bee and
I, invite everyone to read. We are in love with these books of soul
friendship.
Poetry is central to The
Anamcara Experience. Poetry is also central to many
people’s lives. Unfortunately,
it only becomes a language of the centre of many individual lives at
times of crisis or celebration.
These are times of living at threshold places.
Too quickly the moment and opportunity is gone and the
language of the heart and the language that is at the heart of
poetry is gone.
At the time of writing this article we await
the inauguration of a new President of the United States. This is Barack Obama. What distinguishes Barack Obama from
his predecessor George W. Bush is his oratory ability. He has the
ability through using language to inspire. The language is not so
important as the actions inspired by the language.
After all, there is the cautionary tale in one of the
world’s greatest orators, Adolph Hitler, who inspired the rise of
violence through the national socialist movement in Germany during
the lean 1920’s and 1930’s.
My soul friend Bee would like to add that she
finally felt confident to cast a vote for Barack Obama after she
read a poem in The New Yorker magazine that he wrote in
college about his grandfather. Candidates have speechwriters but
poems are a window to the heart, mind and soul.
The power of poetry has the power to
transform lives. This
is by cutting to the very source of our common humanity.
This source is the sound of creation coming through as the
written and spoken word.
At the time of this writing the world is in a
financial crisis. This
mirrors our relationship to the misuse of that powerful energy we
call money. This has been misused for the purposes of short -term gain
for the few over the many. Speculators
encouraged to risk for higher rewards take risks. The risk they take
is with other people’s lives.
However, every little bit helps. It helps tremendously to feel inspired. Personally speaking, I would have these books by Roger
Housden distributed to everyone who attends a doctor’s surgery, a
hospital, or to anyone experiencing a minor or major crisis in
confidence. There is, I think, something for everyone in this book
series.
Reading the poems by Hafiz, David Whyte,
Leonard Cohen, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shibab
Nye – to name only a few – will invite your heart to open.
Sometimes you will want to sing your own poetry from the
expansiveness that these poems and Housden’s commentaries invite.
Sometimes you will be moved so completely by the beauty that they
invite you might shed a tear.
For a moment or a few minutes you will be
transported from the oratory of doom and gloom into the beneficence
of those engaged in what the Irish call ‘love talking’
(geancannach). For a time you can even cross into the timeless.
For a time you accept and live the invitation of Rumi
Come out of the circle of time
Into the circle of love.
Why is any of this important?
Because each one of us is important. Every
though you think creates the world.
The world as you experience it both as an individual and in
the collective consciousness is the sum total of all thoughts that
have ever been. Thought
is energy. It is
neither created nor destroyed.
It changes form.
When you engage your mind with the kind of
poetry in the “Ten Poem” series you become an alchemist.
You change the world. Not
every thought has the same power.
The thought energy of a Buddha, a Christ positively changes
the negative through the power of millions of people. This is real
good news.
This is why at The
Anamcara Experience we encourage you to engage each
day in feeding your mind with the language of love talking. You are not invited to become a poet, writer or a scholar –
although you might be led in that direction.
You are invited to radiate the poetry that creation invited
you to be. You can become living poetry in each gesture you make.
You can become inspired through feeling the
delight of heart language each day.
In this way you raise the consciousness of yourself and
collectively through the scientific low of morphic resonance you
begin to collectively alter the consciousness of the human species.
All this through reading poetry!
This is only the beginning. It gets better
and goes higher. Thank you, Roger Housden!
© Tony Cuckson 2008-2009
Another
Soul Friend
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John
O'Donohue is a man of the soul. His scholarly meditation on the
continuing relevance of Ireland's spiritual heritage has become a publishing
phenomenon.... This poetic meditation has become a best seller on both
sides of the Atlantic...... A lyrical epic prayer
The Times
From Review of Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
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