{"id":123,"date":"1985-08-14T22:47:02","date_gmt":"1985-08-15T05:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:15:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:15:24","slug":"my-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/08\/14\/my-self\/","title":{"rendered":"My Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was cut off from my Self above;<br \/>\nNow the self you know is not my all.<br \/>\nExtricated by my misguided desire;<br \/>\nNow from myself to my Self I call<br \/>\nTo learn more of things which I aspire<br \/>\nTo know, live and grow, in all Love.<\/p>\n<p>Though it would seem completely ineffable<br \/>\nTo most, whose vision is limited to this,<br \/>\n(The body they think of as themself)<br \/>\nTo me it seems true happiness and bliss<br \/>\nComes only from true Knowledge of Self<br \/>\nApart from this plane of all unethical.<\/p>\n<p>Planes beyond sight are inhabited by<br \/>\nBeings of Light and Consciousness:<br \/>\nOf the Being that is the Knower;<br \/>\nThe Thinker whom I now address;<br \/>\nAnd the Self embodied, the Doer;<br \/>\nTriune parts of what I know as I.<\/p>\n<p>The me you know is the Doer only,<br \/>\nFeeling and Desire, thus embodied.<br \/>\nFeeling, not a sense of this plane,<br \/>\nBut the passive Doer part in the body;<br \/>\nNot of the Physical are Love or pain,<br \/>\nHate or greed, or what&#8217;s called Holy;<\/p>\n<p>Of mind and thoughts made thereby,<br \/>\nAre these feelings and conditions.<br \/>\nPermeating bodily sense &#8211; this Feeling<br \/>\nIs Desire&#8217;s receiver &#8211; it&#8217;s erudition.<br \/>\nAnd Desire&#8217;s want and will is really<br \/>\nWhat controls progression of I.<\/p>\n<p>Desire &#8211; the active Doer part &#8211;<br \/>\nWhich is what allows me to say &#8220;I can&#8221;:<br \/>\nConscious control of which will hasten<br \/>\nMy awareness of the Selves I am;<br \/>\nComplete Knowledge of worlds I&#8217;m facing;<br \/>\nGrowth in Spirit and in Light;<br \/>\nMy return to Supreme and Glorious Height<br \/>\nAs a Triune Being Complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was cut off from my Self above;<br \/> Now the self you know is not my all.<br \/> Extricated by my misguided desire;<br \/> Now from myself to my Self I call<br \/> To learn more of things which I aspire<br \/> To know, live and grow, in all Love.<\/p>\n<p>Though it would seem completely ineffable<br \/> To most, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}