Enlightenment Intensive

Participant Photos and Poems - Enlightenment Intensive

Naked before you 
I sit naked before you
Fully clothed with legs folded
Baring my all
Yet telling nothing of my past
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And you - you know me well
Me in all my nakedness
You've been with me forever
Yet never known my name
 
But what is in that name?
For I've been known by many
That I've long since forgotten
And no longer remain
 
We are one, you and I
So can I tell you something new?
I am revealed through your words
And my words reveal you
Ange; EI participant; 5/2/11

Angela MItten; 2011 EI Dyad

​Hi Yoah,
I am still in awe of my post-EI Self!  Creativity, through voice, poetry and humour, seems to be flowing effortlessly through me - uninhibited and uncensored.  I’m sending them to you as a means of communicating my post-EI reflections. 
Love
Ange 

2007 San Diego

Joseph; 2007

FRIEND BY FRIEND  
​Joseph Rubano;2007
 
Who is my mother, Who my father,
When I am being created
         friend by friend?
 
I don't remember who I was without you.
We have been tending sacred fires for a long time
We are wanderers, drawn by the light of those fires.
 
Surrounded by darkness,
Emerging out of darkness,
We enter into the sacred ceremony
         of each other's life.
We sing, we dance,
Humbled by the power
Of each other's presence
         we pray.
 
We become prayers for each other.
We sing praises to each other.
And breath by breath, thought by thought,
         touch by touch,
Music rises between us.
 
What I was, I am no longer.
Shaking with hope,  yielding to your hands
I stand trembling before you.