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Tools of the Path => Death [Public] => Topic started by: nichi on April 15, 2008, 12:11:15 PM
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Odin's Ordeal
Nine days.
Nine nights.
Speared by his own hand,
he hung silently
on the tree at world's end.
The cosmic winds were tearing
furiously at his bones.
His mind was spread out infinitely
in the reliquary of time.
He waited breathlessly,
every fiber surrendered,
every flickering thought
hovering in the nowhere
of the ever-present moment.
He, single-eyed Odin,
waited dispassionately
for death to end
and new knowledge to burgeon.
All was as it will be.
By Georg Feuerstein
(1947 - )
Poetry Chaikhana (http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/)
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Yes,
that is right - the shaman of the shamans sacrificed himself to himself.
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strong stuff!