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    Meteors: A Shower of Aphorisms and Short Poems
    Meteors: A Shower of Aphorisms and Short Poems
    Meteors: A Shower of Aphorisms and Short Poems
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    Meteors: A Shower of Aphorisms and Short Poems

    By Gregory

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    This is a short and varied collection of the thousands of poems and aphorism the author has been scribbling down, and fiddling with, for the last forty years. All were gratuitous inspirations that flash-streaked into his consciousness like meteors across a clear, star-bright sky, and which he managed to scribble-capture, as frantically as he able. Sometimes it was in a convenient note book, but most often on receipts, scraps of paper, business cards, napkins, paper bags, pages of a book he was reading, once even--a ten dollar bill. Whatever was handy.
    One or two of the items are light and humorous, but all the rest are ideas about, and insights into, life, with many being about the inner, mystical workings of what can only be called, the Mystery, that ineffable generator of this mundane reality that we too often, and always catastrophically, believe has only one, very shallow, discrete, materialistic dimension to it.
    These poems and aphorisms will appeal to anyone who is dissatisfied with the crude, materialistic, unenchanted shallowness of our modern world, and is looking for brief peeks into its deeper nature and meanings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGregory
    Release dateJun 1, 2018
    ISBN9781370672516
    Meteors: A Shower of Aphorisms and Short Poems
    Author

    Gregory

    Gregory is, foremost, a mystic and a shaman, and only secondarily a writer. In becoming a mystic and a shaman he has, in the parlance of Carlos Castaneda's shaman/teacher, Don Juan, he has lost his shields, has lost his normal human defences against the psychic, telepathic, and emotional emanations—positive and negative—of those with whom he interacts. Because of this, he lives in solitude and accordingly must remain anonymous. * * * * * Since the Internet has become, quite literally, an incomprehensibly vast and complex Indra's Web, not only of billions of computers and exabytes of electronic information, but an equally vast and complex Indra's Web of psychic, telepathic and emotional information, not all of it positive and healthy, and against which he lacks the shields to protect himself, Gregory spends very little time enmeshed in that Web and is not entangled in any social media sub-webs. * * * * * The Muse and Man Press logo installed here in lieu of a picture of Gregory, represents a vision manifested 40 years ago to Gregory by his Muse, the wise and knowledgeable, non-physical Being who inspires all his written works. It is a stylised representation of a large bird enfolding within its wings a smaller bird. Symbolically, on a basic level, this represents that non-physical Being embracing Gregory's spirit-being and inspiring his writing, while on a more expansive level, it represents a family of such Beings embracing Humanity and inspiring its spiritual evolution. The visionary inspiration for it was given in conjunction with the refrain from John Denver's song, The Wings That Fly Us Home: And the spirit fills the darkness of the heavens. It fills the endless yearning of the soul. It lives within a star too far to dream of. It lives within each part and is the whole: It's the fire and the wings that fly us home . . .

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      Meteors - Gregory

      METEORS

      A Shower of Aphorisms and Short Poems

      by

      Gregory

      Copyright 2018 by:

      Gregory

      Published by

      Muse & Man Press

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Cover and publisher logo designed by

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      PROLOGUE

      Frigid Destiny

      Feed Your Spirit!

      Snow Falling On Cedars

      Levity I

      Children Of The Mythos

      The Truth, the Whole Truth . . .

      False Gods

      Transcendence

      Ode To The Outcasts

      The Universe Awaits Us

      Ergo

      Power Mongering

      A Universal Prayer

      Dark Powers

      Trivial Denominator

      Definitely Not Ray-Bans

      Wasteful Conundrum

      Essential Ideation

      Spiritual Relativity

      Intractable Master

      Just Ask Joe Campbell

      Clothes Make The Man

      No Surrender

      Nest-bound Fledgling

      Better Than Total Darkness

      Guides, Not Gestapo

      Our Chinese Finger-trap

      Destiny's Driven

      The Heaviest Of Burdens

      Solid Granite

      Essential Humility

      Leaving The Egg

      Malice Incarnate

      Hidden in Plain Sight

      Dangerous Addiction

      Infinitely Integral

      Carpe Diem

      Bend Like The Willow

      Equation For A Living Life

      Judgment Call

      Vain Search

      Statusfiers

      Resistance Is Futile

      Enigmatic Liaisons

      A Weighty Responsibility

      Willing Bondage

      Non Sequitur

      Porcine Psychopathy

      Just Bloody Pikers

      Status Quote

      Brutal Sport

      Fundamental

      Life Is A Gym

      The Leaven of Man

      Transformation

      Stupidity Trumps Sense

      Vintage Irrelevant

      ¢¢¢—Centsorship—$$$

      YadaYada

      Mosquito Mars

      Dogotomy

      Godotomy

      Don't Go There

      Shake It Loose!

      Acquired Blindness

      The Ink of Humility

      Gear Up!

      Just Ask Aleister Crowley

      Where Are All The Animals, Mommy?

      Take A Close Look

      Tautological Wasteland

      Potent Sorcerers

      Start Dumping Now!

      'God's' Dark Legacy

      Mean Means Mean Mean Ends

      Going Nowhere Fast

      The Dodo is not Dead . . .

      . . . But the Eagle will Fly!

      Keep A Hat Pin Handy

      A Lamentable Loss

      Circle of Hypocrisy

      Just Wonderin'

      The First Dark Step

      Spiritual Mortuary

      No One Likes A Know-it-all

      Requiem

      Fluidity is Life

      Ice Age

      Doctor Of Despair

      Look Inward, Angel

      The Universal Hemlock

      Nobel Poets

      Nation of Televidiots

      WAKE ME UP!

      For Infantile Adults Only

      Fearful Fragility

      Pay It Forward

      All Value is Scarcity

      Bad Hearticulture

      Moronic Projection

      Just Do It!

      Comfortable Disintegration

      Work At It!

      Trekking to Transformation

      Vive La Différence

      The Early Bird

      ROAAARRRRRR!!!

      Painful Gnosis

      Barking Fleas

      Tell It To Mad King Donald

      Not That They Ever Realize It

      Endless Choices

      Savor the Flavor

      No Escape

      Trivial Pursuit, Ad Nauseam

      Lethal Insecurity

      Starve Them To Death

      Seize Their Day

      Indubitably

      An 'Old Saw' Re-sharpened

      Catastrophic Conundrum

      The Horror! The Horror!

      Out of Time

      The Lady Doth Protest. . . .

      Say It Loud! Say It Clear!

      Hold Your Nose!

      And You Are Envious?

      Rough Voyage

      Lean But Satisfying

      Safe Haven

      Egomaniacal Conundrum

      Like A Navajo Rug

      Second-hand Vision

      Vain Expectations

      The Thin Ice Of Hypocrisy

      Dark Struggle

      Never Stop Looking

      A Dumb and Devolving Circle

      Corruption

      Levity II

      The Folly of Excess

      A Necessary Process

      Brilliant Darkness

      Weak And Malleable

      Couch-potato Preachers

      Wakey! Wakey! Wakey!

      Eat Your Meat!

      Champagne of the Gods

      No Courage, No Sanity

      Mission Impossible

      You Cannot Wait!

      The Stench of Excess

      Get Created!

      Veritas

      Ask 'Em Anyway!

      Chain of Fools

      To The Greater Glory of Mammon

      The Trump Show

      A Vast Difference

      Enlightenment I

      Enlightenment II

      Reductio Ad Absurdum

      Mission Absurdum

      Rebels With A Cause

      Yank It Open!

      Fools' Gold

      As With All Addictions

      Unequal Match

      A Simple Recipe For Mental Health

      Fight To The Last

      Horticulture From Hell

      This One, Especially!

      Skewed Values

      Brrrrrrrr!

      Endeavor of Fools

      OCD-Conundrum

      Can't Twist Your Arm

      Quit Huffing and Puffing

      Proudly Petrified

      The Mythos Manifests

      Reality Check

      Starvation Diet

      A Catastrophic Ignorance

      Integral Calculus

      Pernicious Gaslighters

      Lethal Synergy

      Not So Funny!

      Sleight of Being

      Prancing Primates

      A Forest of Frankensteins

      Time-wise Gardening

      Blake's Newton

      Matryoshka Dolls

      Insane Absurdity

      Mission Futile

      Homeless Despair

      Religiously Recycled

      Doggerism

      House Full Of Secrets

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