Divinity Rising

Guest Post by Mystic Poet John C. Robinson

This week, we welcome guest contributor John C. Robinson, who takes us on a deep dive through this excerpt from his most recent book of mystic poems, Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering, and Death.. I met John early in my spiritual journey through aging and his book The Three Secrets of Aging (2012). At the time, I was already writing about how to bring your spirituality to the challenge of aging, but John’s was the first that opened my eyes to the potential for aging, in and of itself, to be a spiritual experience rather than a problem to be solved. That was many years ago, so it’s no surprise that John has over the decades blossomed into a full-fledged mystic poet. He graces us here this week by showing the way to all of us who have been and are seekers to at last make an arrival.

Enjoy these poems—beams of light that illuminate the way.

—Carol Orsborn

The Mystical Self

Few understand the

mystic’s secret nature.

Passive or foolish to the unenlightened,

the mystic understands life

as a hallowed journey

through a profoundly-sacred realm

to light God’s consciousness

throughout Creation.

To this end, each mystic kindles a

small campfire of ethereal consciousness

beckoning others to come in from the

spiritual darkness of humanity self-betrayal.

The transfigured self that emerges from this friendship

holds everything the world needs and

you ever wanted.

The Problem of Meaning

We live in a vast matrix of meanings.

Everything explained, defined, compared and argued.

This matrix structures the entire human world and

the way you build a life that owns you.

When you drop the search for meaning,

you discover what is beyond words,

a sacred realm that

cannot not be owned by the ego.

Cause and effect disappear.

Goals and plans vanish.

With nothing left to figure out,

you look directly into the One.

You become the One.

Life in the Mystical Universe

The goal of the mystical life is not to

achieve grand things

but to be fearlessly alive

in a new way,

as the divine center of a

conscious cosmos,

trusting its inner nudges to

unfold the blueprint of your soul

in God’s flow.

Your Destiny

What happens when there is no “you”

in consciousness?

Plans and goals disappear.

Personal problems fade away.

Looking around,

eyes widen in wonder.

A new state of being emerges -

spontaneous and cheerful,

blessed and blessing.

Dissolved in the divine present,

action flows from the joy of

conscious being.

This is God’s original dream and

your destiny.

Biography

John Robinson is the author of Divinity Rising: Beyond Illusion, Suffering and Death. It joins his first book of mystical poetry, I Am God: Insight and Revelation from Mystical Consciousness. Join him for live reading of his mystical poetry at this link: https://conta.cc/3Ef7egj

Robinson is a clinical psychologist with a second doctorate in Ministry, an ordained interfaith minister, and the author of 12 books on the psychology, spirituality and mysticism of the second half of life. You can learn more about John at johnrobinson.org. For more about this latest book, click HERE.