The Crucible of the Miraculous
Searching for Meaning in the Cosmos
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I seem to be made of layers through which I ceaselessly move, each a realm of itself, complete and distinct, and unlike all the others. I move through the day in the dense world. Then I float, weightless and transparent, in a sea of gossamer mind. Occasionally, and perhaps now, I expand into space to encounter the Boundless, and Vastness and Mystery. I leave the earth and, in a moment of wonder, enter the swirling galaxies.
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Life is an amazing strangeness. We arrive as beings bundled in a tiny, material body, and we spend the entire arc of our lives trying to figure out what is going on and what it is all about. To live a human life is to be caught in a process of alchemy. The world is a miraculous crucible that burns us, pounds us, and whirls us around in a rough process that eventually transforms us, remakes us and teaches us deep lessons. We wind up in a very different place than where we began. We become wiser about ourselves and reality, and larger than when we started.
The 81 poems in this little book chronicle one person’s experience of life’s crucible. Though they record an individual journey, given the patterns in human experience they also have aspects that are universal. Many readers will find material that is deeply familiar in their own lives. We are all engaged in working our way back to Living Light.
About the Author
Don C. Nix was a lawyer, a university professor and a professional artist for 25 years before turning to consciousness work. He has been a serious student of Sufism for the past 25 years. He founded the Re-Enchantment Project in 1996, and currently sees clients, teaches classes and leads workshops in Northern California and the Western United States. He lives in Sonoma, California with his wife of 44 years, Ann Fursman Nix, and can be reached at donnix@sbcglobal.net. His work is on the web at www.don-nix.com.