Donald Traxler's Poetry

Friday, September 18, 2020

GTh Logion 29 and Nagnopanishad XXII - Consciousness = Spirit

It is a curious fact that in the whole Bible (including both Old and New Testaments), the word "consciousness" is never used. But the word "spirit" is used hundreds of times.

Yet Consciousness is the basis, the ground, of all being. Where "Spirit" is written, we could substitute "God/Goddess," "The All," "All That Is," or whatever we like. We can make such substitutions because ruach/pneuma = spirit = consciousness.

In Nagnopanishad XXII (published in this blog on Sept. 15 2020) we read that "Consciousness does not depend on the body; the body depends on Consciousness."

In Gospel of Thomas (GTh) Logion 29, we read "Jesus said: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has come into existence because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. But I wonder at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty."

We are multidimensional beings. That is one of the secrets of life. Consciousness is also multidimensional. We live on planes/levels/worlds that have been called "Astral," "Ethereal," etc., and by other names in other cultures. We live on these planes simultaneously, When the body eventually dies, because that is what bodies do, the other planes of consciousness, which do not depend on the body, persist. But there is then a missing plane, the physical plane, and it must be replaced. It will be replaced, with another body. The set will then be complete once again.

The Gospel of Thomas begins thus: "These are the secret words which the Living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas wrote. (1) And he said: Whoever finds the explanation of these words will not taste death." Logion 1 is literally true. Bodies come and go (Nagnopanishad XXIII), but "we" (multidimensional beings) don't die.

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Journal of a Naked Poet XXV - You Want Names?

You want names? I'll give you names.

Eileen Hanes Traxler, Donald Clyde Traxler, Charles Foltz, Frank and Marjorie Maciejewski, St. Rose of Lima, Central School, Nora "Nano" Dunne Hanes, Hamilton School, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, St. Francis of Assissi, St. Augustine, Dan Opincar, Mr. Weber, Adamski, Glenn Miller, Tchaikovski, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, The Platters, Elvis, Fr. Smith, Jim Lorentz, George "Jerry" Martinson, Bob Padberg, Mike Milligan, Dave Johnson, Jimmy Green, Alejandro Borja, Pat Rusconi, José Alfredo Jiménez, Gabriela Mistral, St. Teresa of Ávila, Dr. Theodore "Ted" Bardacke, Joe Labonville, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, L. L. Zamenhof, Angela Merino, Alberta Galli, Cheryl Crofts, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Baal Shem Tov, Juliette Savary, Kirsten Landsverk, Sri Aurobindo, Ramakrishna, Mereta Saltrup, Dani Touarin, Mitch Tyler, Ilse "Elsa" Johanna Operschall, Jane Campbell Flood, Don Flood, Sara "Sally" McCune, Jack Hirsh, Marianne Seaver, P. Deborah Lorentz, Orion Culver, Ramana Maharishi, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Shlomo Carlebach, John (Lubavitcher) Blank, Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Herman Hesse, Gandhi,Yeshua ben Yoseph, Moses de León, Federico García Lorca, Paul Twitchell, Adi Shankara, Lalla (Lalleshvari, Lal Ded) of Kashmir, Gerald Gardner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Bergson, William Buehler Seabrook, Persis Kirmse, Maria de Naglowska, Michael Sullivan, Marina Abramovic, Karen Finley, Yakov Leib HaKohain (L. G. Corey).

Relatives, friends, influences, objects of research, indiscriminately. Many have been left out. It's enough to make your head spin.