How we live defines our experience after death. Losing the grasp on innocence does not mean one cannot pick it up again; hold it in the palm of one's hand, and consume it whole.
There is a letter I wrote to Fike recently which restates the plight of Thomas Aquinas; who says there is a logical path to belief. It takes but asking of God to unlock all of Heaven to a soul. It starts by simply tossing a pebble into your sea of the damned; which will, when thrown, unloose a storm which when its thunder breaks over you, shall shatter every preconception you have of Christianity.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I've been surprised how many really insightful comments about "The Island" have been made online. I really appreciate it. I was saying on FB about how the poem has literary resonance and Christianity is really part of that. The shaft of light is clearly a reference that a promise of salvation always awaits. I, the speaker, clearly do not choose that path. People think, "DVS Flux Beatnik" but I was profoundly influenced by Confessional Poetry - the tortured Puritanism of (first T.S. Eliot) then Robert Lowell. I dig that sh-t. I only understand suffering when it comes down to it; good time. wha? Recently I had a serious fling with Christianity. I loved Bible studies. But it didn't take. In fact, today I had my first Tarot reading in years. Very incredible.
How we live defines our experience after death. Losing the grasp on innocence does not mean one cannot pick it up again; hold it in the palm of one's hand, and consume it whole.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I've been surprised how many really insightful comments about "The Island" have been made online. I really appreciate it. I was saying on FB about how the poem has literary resonance and Christianity is really part of that. The shaft of light is clearly a reference that a promise of salvation always awaits. I, the speaker, clearly do not choose that path. People think, "DVS Flux Beatnik" but I was profoundly influenced by Confessional Poetry - the tortured Puritanism of (first T.S. Eliot) then Robert Lowell. I dig that sh-t. I only understand suffering when it comes down to it; good time. wha? Recently I had a serious fling with Christianity. I loved Bible studies. But it didn't take. In fact, today I had my first Tarot reading in years. Very incredible.
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