Song of Awakening, Song of Myself

People wonder what it is like to step away from self and other, even if only for a heartbeat. The ancestors tell us this insight is the way of liberation. So, of course many are interested in those anecdotes and pointers sprinkled around the world’s sacred literature. Now, of course, if this is so true and our lives hang in the balance, the most important thing is to find for ourselves. Still, on the way, hearing from those who’ve walked into the great unknowing can be very helpful. Now, to my experience, often the best expressions come from the East. But by no means always…

Here’s a video adaptation together with a link to the whole text of an American sage who at least for a few of those precious moments got it, and then shared it with the world, Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.