Two Weeks of Wisdom Academy

We have just completed two weeks of Wisdom Academy here at the Praxis Retreat and Learning Center. The first was focused on Theopoetics, the understanding that poetic symbol and metaphor are the convergence and coincidence of opposites--and where they meet is the creative new that is born from the tension between dualisms. Poetry is the major prophetic expression of that new coming into being. David and DaAnna Stringer led us conceptually and experientially through these fertile fields of thought and expression. The second week was devoted to the Keys to the Kingdom led by Ward Bauman. It was an in-depth exploration of the traditional "Sermon on the Mount" seen through the eyes of non-duality. Yeshua taught a profound experience of oneness which is a life beyond dogma into a Realm of consciousness that is unitive rather than separative. Our work was based on a new translation published by Praxis this year.

Below is my own poetic expression of the Lord's Prayer found in that "Sermon" based on the week's work:

O Beloved Source transcendent
your sacred Name we raise
and praise the One whose rule and realm
is home for us on earth as in the heavens.
You know our need
so let us feed today on heaven's bread,
and untie the knots and set us free from error's ways
as we release all who have wronged us.
Guide us from temptation's path
and free us from its evils,
for the Realm of strength and beauty
and all Reality is yours
both now and through the ages