horsemouth dreamt of farmers and land (and black dogs). he’s reading a ginsberg biography (barry miles) at the moment.
ginsberg is reading sunflower by blake (and for us we know that means reading silently) when it happens - he hears blake’s voice reciting it,
‘it was like god had a human voice, with all the infinite tenderness and moral gravity of a living creator speaking to his son.’ with dream logic ginsberg realises he is the sunflower. ‘I suddenly realised this existence was it!... this was the moment I was born for. the initiation, the consciousness of being alive unto myself. the spirit of the universe was what I was born to realise... My body suddenly felt light... it was a sudden awakening into a totally deeper real universe than I’d been existing in... I had the impression of the entire universe as poetry filled with light and intelligence and communication and signals.’
ginsberg then begins to read o rose, thou art sick
‘as something that applied to the whole universe, and at the same time the inevitable beauty of doom.’
thirdly, and finally, he reads the little girl lost.
today is the anniversary of the recording sessions that produced the core of universal consciousness by alice coltrane, in particular the title track, oh allah, and hare krishna.
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