Words of Power: March 2014

Sunday, March 30, 2014

New Moon, Awash in Magic

New Moon (U.S. Naval Observatory)

New moon.

In the darkness. Another beginning.
Life is not a straight line. Life is a circle.

When you realize this, "end" and "beginning" take on different meanings.

Similarly, "light" and "darkness" are not opposites.
The one is not the absence of the other.

When you realize this, the nature of reality opens up to you in a profound way.

Radiance. Blessedness.
We are awash in magic.

-- Richard Power

My new (ninth) book User's Guide to Human Incarnation, The Yoga of Primal Reality is available now from Amazon.com.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Equinox 2014: Vita Nuova. Vita Bella.

Botticelli - Primavera (1482)

This is the Vernal Equinox in the north of the world, and the Autumnal Equinox in the south of the world. Dynamic polarity! This is also Persian New Year (Nowruz).

Another opportunity to begin anew. The great wheel turns.
Another forward impetus. Embrace the unknown.

Whatever will be awaits you there, in the darkness of the unknown.
That is where the light is born, and the source from which the light draws its fuel.

There is nothing at all behind you but relics and echoes. Lean forward.
Vita Nuova. Vita Bella. Yes. New life. Beautiful life.

Fleeting, and therefore so precious. Exquisite, and therefore so fragile.

-- Richard Power

My new (ninth) book User's Guide to Human Incarnation, The Yoga of Primal Reality is available now from Amazon.com.

About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.