Terry Patten
Drew Dellinger’s Passionate Hieroglyphic Stairway
Imagine a conversation between a political activist and a spiritual practitioner.
Now imagine another conversation between a political activist and a poet.
Now put each of those two conversations inside two human beings, and ask them to take the conversation right to the edge.
Something like that is what occurred this past Sunday when I spoke with Drew Dellinger. He is a poet and prophet with a passion about political activism. And, as you know, I’m a spiritual teacher with a similar passion.
When we talked, we gave voice to some of the themes and issues that have been a subtext for Beyond Awakening since its very inception
And, Drew read his marvelous poem, Hieroglyphic Stairway — one of the great poems iconic poems of our time. I invite you to enjoy a video version now:
Drew Dillinger’s poem is magnificent and I am encouraged to finally begin hearing some intelligent people beginning to acknowledge that even the best of all of our words are partial. If we printed transcripts of all of the fine talks here, at Integrallife, and Soundstrue and neatly laid them from end to end they would add up to feeding exactly zero starving children. Eventually caring people will begin coming together and taking some tangible and beneficial actions out in our world. Why not sooner than later? Later may turn out to be just a little bit too late.