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painful blessings

by rob brezsny



This is a perfect moment.

It's a perfect moment for many reasons,

but especially because you and I

are waking up

from our sleepwalking thumbsucking dumbclucking collusion

with the masters of illusion and destruction.



Thanks to them, from whom the painful blessings flow,

We are waking up.

Thanks to them, from whom the awful teachings ooze,

We are waking up.



Their wars and… Continue

A prayer:



Oh Wise Trickster Goddess, You Compassionate Conjurer of Relentless Change, You Righteous Rascal in Charge of Keeping a Steady Flow of Sacred Uproar Pouring into Our Lives:



Please continue to influence the masters of plutocracy and war and their media minions to be ever-more obvious as they spin out their perversions of your glorious creation, so that more and more of our sleeping tribe will wake up to the Open Secret.



Inspire the enforcers of mass… Continue

We have come to be danced



Not the pretty dance



Not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance



But the claw our way back into the belly



Of the sacred, sensual animal dance



The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance



The holding the precious moment in the palms



Of our hands and feet dance.







We have come to be danced



Not the jiffy booby, shake your booty for him… Continue

'Love is the New Religion'



On the surface of the world right now there is war and

violence and things seem dark But calmly and quietly, at the

same time, something else is happening underground An inner

revolution is taking place and certain individuals are being

called to a higher light It is a silent revolution From the

inside out From the ground up



It is time for me to reveal myself

I am an embedded agent of a secret, undercover… Continue