“Out of My Mind” and
“Back to My Sense of Being”
“Consciously Aware.”
“Out of My Mind” and
“Back to My Sense of Being”
“Present and Aware.”
“Out of My Mind” and
“Back to My Sense of Being”
“The Knowledge I Am.”
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“Out of My Mind” and
“Back to My Sense of Being”
“Radiant Presence.”
“Out of My Mind and
“Back to My Sense of Being”
“Awareness Itself.”
“Out of My Mind and
“Back to My Sense of Being”
“One with the Father.”
OOMM’s Subtitle:
“The Object of Life
Is to Find Out Who I Am
Before Time Runs Out.”
A. For friends who may be interested in purchasing a digital version of “OOMM” (that “lifetime labor of love” I am very fond of calling, “a 40 Year State of the Head Message”), I wanted to let you all know that there is a recently republished, Amazon Kindle version now available at a reduced price of $3.99, as part of an on-going sales promotion.
As a short refresher as to what OOMM actually is, here is a link to my Amazon Author’s page, a page which now includes: (1) a video interview I am rather pleased with; (2) access to recent posts to my blogspot blog; (3) a recently updated bio; (4) a “quick and dirty briefing” (as we use to call them in the military) on the OOMM’s “not really being a straight through read,” but more of an “inspirational/meditational compilation,” of multiple modes of creative self-expression, intended to cross-triangulate (and so point to) the “One and Same Truth” seen and experienced here during 1966, 1970 and 1978 epiphanies:
https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Hay/e/B002BLJNPE
B. For those unfamiliar with this rather unique offering, OOMM is a multi-medium analogy of Heartfelt Insights gleaned from a “40 Year Search for Truth as the Common Thread in All.” Due to the “one of a kind nature” of the book and, in order to get a better feel for this rather “out of the box” sharing, I would recommend checking out the back cover synopsis on the accompanying photo; as well as, the following “seminal gleanings of the fruit of that rather epic search,” in the following selection of hay-ku (a characterization coined by a friend along the way) haiku, poetic fragments, the synoptic inscription scribed on hand-delivered copies over the last 5 to 10 years and, last but not least, Frank Lyon’s lyrical endorsement of OOMM (“for such a time as this”):
(1) Synoptic Hay-Ku Favorites:
Poetic Glimpses
Into the Divine Nature
Of Being Aware.
A Thousand Haiku
All Reflecting different
Facets of One Truth.
Being Here and Now
Still and Silent as I Am
One with the Father.
Centered in the One
Abiding in the Balance
Mindful of the Light.
Thinking of Myself
In Relative Terms I Am
Subject to Objects.
A fatal case
Of Mistaken Identity
This Being human.
The Good and Bad thieves
Of the Future and Past are
Stealing the Present.
Hell is in your Head
Heaven is in your Heart and
Love is All Around.
Remembering a
Past, Projecting a Future
Missing the Moment.
Playful old puppies,
She frolics, he gently paws
Love in furry coats.
A basement cricket
Competing with my daydreams
Who is more alive?
One’s caterpillar
Nature must die to give birth
To the Butterfly.
Ambulance passing
Lights flashing in the night
Life in the Balance.
My soulful anguish
Mid-wife to Divine Glory
Cosmic Labor Pains.
This Holy Moment
Awareness Knows Sensation
Consciousness is Born.
I Am Awareness
Embodied as a Sense of
Radiant Presence.
Ever-Present God
Seeks absent-minded man to
Give him the Kingdom.
Empty of self-thought
I Am the Holy Grail through
Which the Father Flows.
(2) A Potpourri of Poetic Fragments from 21 of the rhymed poems included in OOMM’s Appendix B, “Related Poetry”; which, much to my surprise, do make rather nice “stand alone pointers” to the Absolute Nature of Reality all the mediums in the book serve to cross-triangulate/correlate):
“… Know the Spirit,
Drop the Letter;
Know Yourself,
There Isn’t Better.”
“Who asks Why
Wonders How;
When you are Here
And Life is Now…”
“Free of self-will, be quiet and still,
Empty and open, be whole and unbroken,
Settle and center, be silent and enter.”
“An Empty Mind is also Clear,
without thought, there is no fear…
A silent mind has No Bound,
Open and Still Itself is Found.”
“…As in Thy Oneness first conceived,
Thought by sense of self deceived;
Again to Oneness must I grow,
And therein finally come to Know…”
“…The bounds I feel are self imposed,
From sense of self they once arose;
They’ll stay so long as I do feel,
That I alone am all that’s real…”
“…Who is this I that I seem to be,
That I feel I am, yet cannot see;
The one in me I’ve yet to know,
Though ever-present wherever I go…”
“Though many battles have I fought,
Some quite well and some for naught;
Purpose fades with passing years,
With broken dreams and realized fears…”
“…Are you really future’s dust,
Are your treasures bound to rust;
Are you really going to die,
Born of ground and not of sky?…”
“Life is like an open book,
Who sees it not, just doesn’t look
For like the air, it’s all around;
Seldom seen and nowhere found…”
“…Another lost, another found,
Another sky, another ground;
Another form, another space,
Another time, another place.”
“On again, off again, round and around,
One moment lost, the next moment found;
Movement and stillness, silence and sound,
One moment free, the next moment bound…”
“Who is this I that I that I seem to be,
That I feel I am, yet cannot see;
The one in me, I’ve yet to know,
Though ever-present wherever I go/…”
“Your mind alone is hallowed ground,
As from its fields flow all that’s found;
Allow no thought of self therein,
And so do pluck the root of sin…”
“Ideas that come to us each day,
Seem so real, but never stay;
Sing their siren song of being,
Live awhile, but end up fleeing…”
“Dream of future, ghost of past,
Gone forever, awake at last;
There’s no tomorrow, yesterday’s gone,
Realize this truth, don’t be a pawn…”
“…So lift the veil of my thought’s false division,
And open mine eyes to Thy Perfect Vision;
Thus end the reign of my partial Sight,
The shadows I cast and my blockage of Light…”
“…The infinite Wholeness, the Ground of my Being,
A promise of Hope to my once again Seeing;
A return to Oneness, of Partial to Whole,
The Saving Grace of my Prodigal Soul.”
“The leaf knows not its unspoken
union with the transcendent tree;
nor its essential nature as an ever evolving,
unfolding pattern of intelligent energy…”
“Father, Mother, Sister, Brother,
God is All, there is no other;
Power, Person, Presence, Being,
God alone is all you’re seeing…”
“With Christmas so near,
It’s that time of year;
God’s Spirit made real,
God’s Love that we Feel…”
(3) This is standard, “haiku-like, 7-7-7, inscription” that has accompanied the majority of hand scribed autographed copies for the last 5-10 years or so:
“May the Words on these pages
Serve to “Reflect and Reveal”
the “Truth Written in Your Heart.’
(4) Although I do love and appreciate all of the wonderful overflow endorsements (and especially the extensive one by Dr. John Howard, that became OOMM’s Forward), both at the front of the book and in “Appendix i” (now, how appropriate a title is that?), I am particularly fond of the following, brother AF and UAL pilot, Frank Lyons’ lyrical word-picture:
"We exist in a modern world of overpowering and relentless gray noise, bombarded and abased at every turn with a plethora of meaningless flat shades of vacant information, an overcast of empty platitudes. Through this morass of numbing proportions comes Richard's brilliant anthology - a sunburst of radiant colors to wash away the gray. Truth erupts from the pages in dazzling pyrotechnic fashion." — Frank Lyons, UAL 777 Captain; President, FJL Consulting, USAF, retired
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