{"id":222,"date":"2011-02-05T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T08:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/2011\/02\/poets-of-consciousness-i.html"},"modified":"2011-02-05T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T08:25:20","slug":"poets-of-consciousness-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/02\/poets-of-consciousness-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Poets of consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nicola<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Poets,
\nit’s said, are shamans of words. True shamans are poets of consciousness.
\nJourneying into a deeper reality with the aid of sung and spoken poetry, they
\nbring back energy and healing through poetic acts, shapeshifting physical
\nsystems. When we dream, we tap directly into the same creative source from
\nwhich poets and shamans derive their gifts. When we create from our dreams, and
\nenter dreamlike flow, we become poets and artists. When we act<\/i> to bring
\nthe energy and imagery of dreams into physical reality, we become poets of
\nconsciousness and infuse our world with magic.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Birth
\nof a Poet<\/i>, William Everson raised a clamorous appeal for poets to reawaken
\nto their shamanic calling: <\/span><\/p>\n

Poets! Shamans of the word! When will you
\nrecover the trance-like rhythms, the subliminal imagery, the haunting sense of
\npossession, the powerful inflection and enunciation to effect the vision?
\nShamanize! Shamanize!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Across the centuries, many of our greatest poets
\nhave recognized their kinship with the shaman’s way of shifting awareness and
\nshapeshifting reality. As his name in a spiritual order, Goethe chose the name
\nof a legendary shaman of antiquity, Abaris, who came flying out of the Northern
\nmists on an arrow from Apollo’s bow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our earliest
\npoets were shamans. Today as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of
\nconsciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal. They
\nunderstand that through the play of words, sung or spoken, the magic of the
\nReal World comes dancing into the surface world. The right words open pathways
\nbetween the worlds. The poetry of consciousness delights the spirits. It draws
\nthe gods and goddesses who wish to live through us closer.<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span><\/p>\n

Moon Guitar by Nicola Daniels<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


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