2012: "Raids on the Unspeakable"

Recently The Emergence Project co-sponsored an event in Cambridge, MA with the Boston Evolver folks, a group started by Daniel Pinchbeck. The first part of the meeting was a screening of a video by mycologist Paul Stamets called "Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World". Fascinating stuff: Stamets talks about how they can be used to clean up oil spills and fight diseases including pox and flu viruses. Brian George, a local writer and poet, was on hand and read some of his poetry. His work harkens back a bit to the style of poets like Blake and Ginsberg, a fiery trail of Emersonian assertions delivered in rapid fire cadences.

Poetry may be what we need. There is a distinct challenge to describing what’s happening with 2012 emergence as we move through this amazing time in history. The limitations of language become evident and Thomas Merton’s great phrase about the challenges describing spiritual experience springs to mind, “Raids on the Unspeakable”. Moving away from the narrowness of much of the quasi-academic poetry commonplace these days, a latter day Blake or Milton might be up to the task or perhaps someone like Brian along with some of his contemporaries can take this on. Given the larger than life itself nature of the new energies, the scope and passion of literature has to grow and enlarge every bit as much as the frames of our everyday lives.