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THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SELF LOVE AND UNIVERSAL LOVE- A love poem for myself...and for Teal Swan

THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SELF LOVE AND UNIVERSAL LOVE- A love poem for myself...and for Teal Swan

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 Thursday, March 17th- Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SELF LOVE AND UNIVERSAL LOVE— A poem for myself and for Teal Swan Note: All I have to say about my dedicating this poem to myself is that it is best explained within the poem itself. As for why I dedicate it to Teal Swan, this, I feel, deserves a more prosaic explanation since I want to express with a bit more elaborateness and fullness (as opposed to the more mystical nature of poetry); i.e., I believe embedding a piece of prose into a poem, especially as an introductory/headnote, or endnotes, et cetera, necessarily adds an extra dimension and thus fuller sense of meaning and meaningfulness. I won’t however call this an all out prosimetrum (only a prosimetric poem) because the prose exists for the purpose of the poem. It’s not a consciously and intentionally symbiotic relationship, so to speak. My models for this particular prosimetric style/device are Percy Shelley, Alexander Pope, and Daniel Dafoe, who wrote significantly meaningful notes to their poems. There’s also a touch of influence from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote epigraphs to many of his essays in verse poetry. This poem is for Teal Swan because she’s its most profound and direct source of inspiration. In 2015, Teal Swan published a book titled Shadows Before Dawn . The book explores both her personal story from self-hatred to self-love (as the context of her struggle is rather complex and includes saving herself from nearly 15 years of exceptionally cruel sexual abuse and in the even more complex context of being an exceptionally sensitive human, on my part, this is a rather overly abstract over-simplification and understatement…) and a set of techniques she suggests that may help one initiate or improve one’s self love. Had her book lacked a connection between the law of attraction and self love, I may not have read it, or not so closely as to end up writing a poem directly inspired by it. But I’ve been studying and researching the relationship between that which exists within consciousness and that which we can perceive since I was 21, when I first realized there is a sense, even if only illusory (though still necessary), of free will, and began exploring the relationship between what I wrote from consciousness and imagination and what I experienced more perceptively in life.
 Like many people in or around 2006, when The Secret was published as a book, and produced as a movie, some interdisciplinary academic theories regarding the so called “law of attraction” played an influential role in exploring what the sense of free will within our minds might possibly achieve in our lives. Now, some 15 years later, having explored all the various perspectives on the law of attraction, from the religious (a la the implications of the Christian notion of prayer, for example; another example of a somewhat religious thinker is the very yogic Sadhguru, though, he certainly pays his respects to science) to the scientific (see Dr. Joe Dispenza, who it would seem, is among the top leaders in empirical research on the relationship between consciousness and perception, and the role thoughts and feelings play; see also Dr. Tara Swart, whose work also explores the rote science of the law of attraction; finally, I would also suggest googling the Central Intelligence Agency’s “Gateway Document” which attempted to explore the relationship between quantum physics and consciousness and how consciousness could be both altered, leave the body and travel to different dimensions of the universe, and even redesign aspects of physical reality) to the more speculative. The speculative attempts to grasp new insights re: the law of attraction are the hardest to contemplate for me since they’re not based on peer-reviewed academic studies on, say, the pineal gland, like Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work, and thus, you are taking someone’s “word for it” in terms of what they believe they can...

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