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Circular Motion

Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist Hal
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Ah but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.


Robert Allen Zimmerman better known as Bob Dylan was born in Duluth Minnesota in 1941. He is a performer, songwriter, poet and one of the music industries most influential figures. He continues to write and perform and released a new album in 2006.


My course through time seems to be an established route. I expand from young to old and back to young again. I'm like a human accordion that moves with the motion of energy and with each push and pull of consciousness, I exert a sound that's age related. I measure my self in years, months and days, but generally years is my measurement of choice. My self worth accumulates in years of training and education and my success is measured in years of service. I am always defined by a certain day in a year and have a clear understanding of my birth, which tells me nothing about my self other than I became aware of a linear aspect of my self at a specific energy point. I was before that point much older than I am now.  The history of my age is unrecorded knowledge but it is an aspect of my existence.


The measurement of my life is an incomplete one; it is just a snapshot not the album of my existence. If I trace my consciousness using my mind, I find footprints that belong to me on the bedrock of eternity. I find channeled energy lock in vault of separation waiting for me to open it and release other aspects of my self to linear time. I sense the urgency of nothing as it creeps from one reality to another growing ageless in my creative imagination. I remember my youth when consciousness dressed me in a gender of completeness where I became a vibration of endless frequencies. Warping through my memory I see a galaxy of sublime agelessness that rivets me to the subsidiary method of awareness I call age.


The process of aging is not a left to right process; it is a circular movement of energy that is constantly refreshing itself with new paths around my circumference. The center remains the same, but the diameter continues to expand.   I am the center and the circumference and I choose the diameter and how to express it. Each path I take has the different point of entry and the path rotates using the power of my consciousness. The age of a path is directly related to my thoughts about it. The path itself has no age.


So Dylan in his unique wisdom is expressing the circular motion of age on his path around his center, where he is much younger now and I am too.




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Centria : Full Moon
about 2 hours later
Centria said

You have to love Bob Dylan.  I also love what you say about aging.  The center remains the same, but the diamater continues to expand…  Just think what our world would be like if folks chose to look at the aging process in this alternate way, instead of a linear process.  thanks, Hal.

Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist
about 4 hours later
Hal said

Hi Kathy,
Yes, it is another reality waiting to be experienced.
I appreciate your thoughts.
Love,
Hal

ange : dawn song
about 4 hours later
ange said

How wonderful Hal how your creativity and sharing helps me to remember the experience of being me,
not of age, nor lines in a graph, yet that which has always been is now with newness and joyfulness..
A freshness born of being old in youngness, eyes bright like a child embraced by the sunshine..
Stepping forever to and from the I that I am…always..


Thank you for giving birth to this beauty Hal as always..

Love
Ange..

Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist
about 7 hours later
Hal said

Hi Ange,
Yes, you identify and explain the process brilliantly: A freshness born of being old in yougness.
I appreciate your contribution.
Love,
Hal

7 days later
Sean said

Hal, thank you so much for your contributions here on Gaia.  I have been following your blog and enjoying the depth and beauty of your words. 

For me part of aging with freshness (as Ange so appropriately stated), is finding humor and joy in the smallest parts of self and life.  I think when one can flow into these lighter spaces it keeps the mind open…and one can see and integrate their younger versions while gathering in the wisdom and tenderness of sweet old age.  To be young and old at the same time is so refreshing for the soul..

Love 

Hal : Poet , Author and Essayist
7 days later
Hal said

Thank you Love. I appreciate your thoughts and your friendship. The lighter spaces are filled with humor and joy and those spaces get brighter as we expand and allow sweet old age to renew itself in the cycle called awareness.
Chi-fully,
Hal

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