Acting Truths

By Oliver James Damian

It is the craft of meaningful action within imagined realities that moves us.... more

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The podcast currently has 51 episodes available.

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November 09, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ Post-traumatic Growth
I'm grateful for post-traumatic growth
a tree grows around its wounds
shattered teacups mended
in fullness of zen attended
bound back together
with gold, it comes gilded
angels released from rock
only with Hephaestic hammering
violent chiselling
pearls born of
sandy inside attacks
oppressive pile on
graphite's soft sable, dark soot
deftly delivers
durable clarity, crystalline diamonds
the adept first putrifies
life crushes caterpillar
purees pupae
for butter to fly
antigens dance with antibodies
to nick the antifragile
is a gift of strength to the facile
I can only fly in ecstatic high
as far as I can dive deep
into the lows, down the doldrums
seeped into scars
trenches of inner wars
where my most potent love comes
most generous will, power, morale
ready in waiting
for tears to come
anger to boil
a release towards
a symbiosis
with lives past.
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3min
November 08, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ Co-dependence
I'm grateful for co-dependence
betwixt organisms & with one another
gestalt baroque of filigreed
functions that further
more is different
roses grow thorns
frustrate ruminants gagging
a chew on their bush bodies
that they may grow & blossom
release fragrance & hues
to colour hearts of impassioned lovers
nectar for bees
pollen for the Mrs
trees witness human foibles
breath in to resurrect
out-breath a step closer to death
crabs crowd neath mangroves
where fresh meets salty
new man glides his tongue hungrily
over her breasts' fullness
warm skin, firmly ripe mangoes
sweet rind, consummation in the offing
plentiful harvest, the monsoon summer
where it all hangs one knows nowhere
Everywhere
ignorance got no beginning
can come to end
gnosis begins
never ends
we kissed under the gum tree
just where the river bends
she's gone distant, no longer here
but there's no end to our relating
once entangled spooky serenading
each others' spinning
from a distance
transformation in trance
without the warmth of soil
dead rocks come to a boil
disease permafrost freeze
prays for a thawing
peace for those
who hold discomfort
bleeding hearts
warm hands.
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3min
November 07, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ The Distributed
I'm grateful for the distributed
weight, counterweight
punto, contra punto
impact hits it ripples through
widely in space/time's fabric
no, not simply equal
a miserly measure of man
rather congruent
nature's embarrassment of riches
symmetry of asymmetries
asymmetry of symmetries
functions link unlink
feedback feedforward
autopoietic agents feed
each other's hunger
the seen born in a bang
swirling dusts
imploding masses
gold minted in bellies of oppressive stars
generous nucleate these very same
photons they radiate
orderly paths of planets gravitate
unseen devours seen
fractionated fracking adjacent possibles
fractal degrees of freedom
dynamic dance enlivens
equilibrium of death
boundaries bicker
fight to thrive
co-learning to evolve
trees space in between canopies
predators prey to eat
mycelia masticate on the fallen
lovers breakup
bodies breakdown
time bends in time, time ends
this beauty of creation
violence looking through a bio lens.
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3min
November 06, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ The Human Body
I'm grateful for the human body
sinewy sinusoidal waveform
of immanent incarnation
upright, always on point
losing balance
vulnerable ventral exposed
clothed by ingenuity
habiting harnessed habitats
Anthropos conquers scene
corrupted by cunning
ravage reservoirs of million years
the sin of extincting
rewild I shake off the matrix
no to mad planning
fiat cannot see
what's in bursts of sprinting
periods of resting
foraging, naming, knowing
flora & fauna, astral & hermetic
not for study but to embody
to walk, to run, minutes, hours, days
who cares
abomination of scheduled jogging
in a daze
dread mill of working
deadens desires
sing, dance, worship, trance
for no purpose other than that
the sun we screen not
a metanoia of mitochondria
never hype of hypochondria
the cancer is in the anger
to weaponise the child in the manger
is the zenith of mischief
Internet of beefs
it's alright alone undivided
lonely in crowds we madden
advertising the Schmick
tick of the atomic
half monkey half angel
we become only in surrender.
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3min
November 05, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ Silence
l am grateful for the silence
in meditation
a ceasing of persistent me
allows the avatar
to come down, interpenetrate
at a point
where doing meets being
a crossroad where the finite
comingles with the infinite
ripening of fruit
in complete surrender
so it may become full & heavy
drop effortlessly back
into the soil, be eaten
ripped apart, torn asunder
so it may commune once more
with the formless
that gives birth to all forms
this sitting on the ground of being
walking the land of becoming
dancing without dancing
dancer becomes dance
the flower & I become one
silence is the perfume that permeates
rich hues of sunrise
cool wind on face
stirring in groin
hunger in belly
wanting ache in heart
cacophony of questioning mind
in totality all alters
eros, beauty, hunger
gateways to the Divine
doors open in allowing
though no one is knocking
when I am no more
all is
music of chance
murmurrate in imperfect
perfection, perfect imperfection
in the total present
as the vertical
bisects the horizontal
past is forgotten
future let go
only in the richness of the now
nowhere to go
no one to be
simply in the joy
at one with this moment
darkness always there
embraces holds the light
in a tight embrace
like lovers in delight
only the undivided me
can shine this particularity
relating with other
uniquenesses undivided
relationships create relationships
learning to be with
patterns that connect
gently hold that which persists
in crossing the dark valleys
to find light in hills to climb
the virtue that is not a virtue
is the true virtue.
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4min
November 05, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ The Ancestral
I'm grateful for the ancestral
knowing for survival
whispered from one human to another
only to those who can
keep it pure untainted by hubris
with the big picture
recognise poison from cure
cultivated attention
not to miss forest for trees
attenuation of greed
grandmother to grandmother
generations inter generated
genial genius genealogy of ecology
telluric techne
stand under episteme
suffusing sophrosyne
lndra's Net taut in truthful tonos
in right relating to the ever-changing
memory codes
infused in songs, rituals
etching in rock, marking in barks
stories of the dream time
serpents, dragons, hiss through
history, learning to be with one another
us two with the rocks, the crocks
the roos, encircling the emu
emulation of ego
illusion of separation
belief in being greater than thou, special
forgetting the heteronomy of the spatial
the land that sustains, soil that en-soul
bioregions of regeneration
we come back, we return
to our default indigeneity
smoke out zombies of civilisation
without scripts, each of us speaks
listen, partake, participate
in mutual learning
a symmathesy to see
the mother sea.
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3min
November 03, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ Duality
I'm grateful for duality
primordial split
cascade further
splintering, contrasting, differentiating
hydrogen fuels expansion
helium, lithium, beryllium
elements cohere, combine ad infinitum
carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
life born of promiscuous attraction
semipermeable separation
sodium, magnesium, aluminium
metals forged in bellies
of starstruck explosions
scythe of separation
swath through a solipsist solo
hermaphrodite no more
begins quixotic quest
for counterpart parfait
bright, dark, good, bad
sweet, sour, heavy, light
high, low, deep, shallow
pluralistic palette of the possible
canvas rewoven
at each step of process
curvaceous crevasse
holds strangest attractors
not knowing ex-ante
revising meaning ex-post
to grasp at straws
of vague values
at each hold
the valuer remoulds
one with self
seeking to be undivided
an individual born of the dual.
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2min
November 02, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ The Wound
I'm grateful for this wound of separation
a constant felt sense
this drop was once
in oneness with the ocean
deep longing for return
a turning once more
pining to remember
again to be a member
this pain of wake up
from the deep slumber
ensconced within a pre-personal
cocoon of comfort
bestowed a personal gift
sovereign body
unique expression of life becoming
similar, conjugal but never quite the same
abutting, slamming against that which resists
I gather an inkling of where the other ends where I begin
pinned down by limits
I begin to learn the meaning of exceeding
alone in the desert's desolation
I take off garments of illusion
naked l commune with supreme emptiness
recharged I come back to feed multitudes in the market
this wound calls me to cross over
towards the shimmering shore
walk over raging waters of desires and attachments
in the darkest night of the soul
to let fear pass through me
in deep surrender
be in the bliss of Silence
drunk with the Divine
this drop can call forth the ocean.
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3min
November 02, 2020 Gratitudes ∞ Rigour
l am grateful for the rigour
of the super astral
a verticality that cuts through
the Gordian Knot of wishy-washy
custard horizontality
a sword of light disinfecting
the bullshit of pretence
cutting down the flexing of egos
falsifying the smokescreens
of Narcissus infatuated con artists
swiftly ascending, descending
the ladder of abstraction
listful to logical typing
unearthing errors hemmed & hawed
by layered lazy cognition
a bias for action it
playfully manipulates symbols
traverse thought experiments
until something clicks
the penny drops, the double helix revealed
upending the constancy of space & time
when one rides the speed of light
is the constant when geometry's not flat
in dynamic contact with what is alive
honing, zooming in, dissecting
getting at the bottom of things
plucking the patterns of
causation, correlation, disambiguation
replicable processes create the Technium
efficacy as measure of truth
the power of this reduction, a dutiful servant
it must remain
never a master lest we all perish
in a paperclip maximiser myopia
of algorithmic worship.
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2min
October 31, 2020 Gratitudes ♡ The Heart
l am grateful for the envelope of the heart
where desires are born
from deep within
which shapes what the self
values in the world it moves in,
a process of unfolding, refolding,
folding the other way
always in medias res
as values transform, undulate, reform,
the self is remade not by outside decree
but a steeping,
soaking, fermenting
emanating from the core of the heart
where courage carry on caring
untethered to anything
its radiance can't help but love totally.
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The podcast currently has 51 episodes available.