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Into The Now

The poetic alchemy of one man’s journey into the mystic. Drawing on the perennial wisdom at the root of all world religions Into the Now seeks to deliver afresh the good news of Ontological Oneness through a raw and rambunctious poetic tapestry. The mystical core of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, diverse wisdom traditions, and indigenous thought all share a timely message of hope for a planet drowning in the illusion of ‘otherness’. In that spirit we journey. Into

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33. Polar Breeze

Into The Now ·

2023/01/04

33. Polar Breeze This thing that we are doing. This way that rules our day. This curated rage we are consuming. This spirit of enmity that leads our way. It leads us far from freedom, instead feeds us fear and tucks us in. Because we are what is consuming us consuming ourselves, from within. The way that we are going, the way we treat our fellow-selves. As we fight with each other over finite resources on finite shelves. Our culture is a buffet of attachments, and the collective ego is

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32. New Skin

Into The Now ·

2022/12/28

32. New Skin I woke up one day and decided to change my skin.* I’m sure that sounded crazy so I’ll say it all again. I woke up… one day and decided to change my skin. Not as much my idea, as that it grew out from within. It seems new skin was required because the old had become tired. A frame of reference turned brittle inside a paradigm too little. Or picture this idea I am spitting as an analogy like… knitting. But the fabrics random where we’re sitting and the patches we are sewing are all

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31. What If?

Into The Now ·

2022/12/21

31. What If? What if in the end - I wasn’t let in, through the old pearly gates? What if I didn’t even get-a… “Stand over there… sir, and wait”? If this life of toil, this life of mine did not measure up on the scales of the Divine? Food stamp lines confused life… as a grind, to a fragile young mind that now cannot unwind. A life spent grappling for more. From friends, to girls, to sports, to stores. From money to pleasure to pride to my drawers. I always seek the fight, whether it was needed or

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30. The Precipice

Into The Now ·

2022/12/14

30. The Precipice Humanity… stands on the precipice. Captive to the corporate appetite for profit. Our insatiable consumption created the ledge and now beckons us to jump off it. We’re held at this edge by collective in-action. And media, politicians, and advertisers creating factions. The devil of consumerism grins with each transaction, knowing ‘things’ will never deliver satisfaction. But more, more, more, remains our collective re-action. As we writhe in a frenzied egoic-spasm, and in

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29. Undying and Unborn

Into The Now ·

2022/12/07

29. Undying and Unborn Could it ease the collective grind of the collective mind to remember? Remember that what ‘I’ see as ‘I’ is stardust… become aware of itself. ‘I’ with my bluster and mistrust, preferences, and lusts have eternally spun into Being. Now ‘I’m’ a food-formed body, a husk. And this shell, these cells, will melt back-to the turf. But, awareness, consciousness, is not bound to this Earth. In truth what ‘is’ our center is eternal, but separate egos are obsessed with forms. And form is

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28. COVID

Into The Now ·

2022/11/30

28. COVID. I hear her upstairs coughing, home from school on a Tuesday at noon. I’m home too, instead of where I “should be”, (quote unquote) “in the Emergency Room”. Instead, I’m in a recliner alternating ice and heat on my back. It is in a locked-up, in-tense, defensive-spasm. A mind-body reaction as if I’m under attack. Before leaving work I just about fell to the floor. I caught-myself on the frame of a door with a smack. My complaints against this country’s corporate over-lords have

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00:02:54

27. My Generation

Into The Now ·

2022/11/11

27.My Generation What is the role of a generation? I was thinking all that through the other day. And sort of thought it might be to enable the next generation to thrive on their way. But on their way to what? …And in these times first, we’d need to decide, just what is our definition of a well lived life, and what does it look like inthesetimes to thrive? I was thinking about my kids. Thriving! All our children thriving vs. just surviving. But our mass material consumption, this current game. My

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26. The Damned Ego Tree

Into The Now ·

2022/08/29

26. The Damned Ego Tree Let’s revisit a story that’s been passed down through generations. A story about the dawning of suffering and of separations. When ‘ego-consciousness’ was born it was first described as the fruit of a forbidden tree. Then separate-selves… hid behind separate bushes and separate ‘ego’s’ grew from the discarded seed. May I freshen up that allegory? Speak clearly what I believe? That under the damned ego tree we forgot this-nesses inherent unity in the fabled story of Adam and

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25. 'Sin'

Into The Now ·

2022/08/22

25. ‘Sin’ I am beginning to define the word ‘sin’ as the “errors that proceed from perceived separateness”. Let me repeat, ‘sin’ = the error that proceeds from our mis-perceived separateness. The prize that ego-consciousness wins is the piling up of the suffering of our planet and our friends. Is there any hope for the oceans, for the skies, for our neighbors? And what is the point? What is our fruit? What are we birthing from all our labors? All too often, the emotions of meaning-less-ness

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24. AMBER ALERT

Into The Now ·

2022/08/15

24. AMBER ALERT “A #TNAMBERAlert has been issued for 2-day old… (I’m here poetically deleting her real name) on behalf of the Memphis Police Dept. She was last seen yesterday in the area of Sedgewick Drive and Levi Rd in Memphis. (She)was last seen wearing a black and white polka dot onesie with pink pants. She weighs 6 pounds. And is 17 inches long. She has brown hair and brown eyes. If you have seen(her) or know where she can be found call M.P.D.” …In 2022-going on 2023 Oh, the horrors we are

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23. Our Ancestor's Hell

Into The Now ·

2022/08/12

23. Our Ancestors’ Hell Some things are formed of harder stuff. Take how storms expose stone to form bluffs. Tough stuff is not eroded it endures sheer presence endlessly giving. As this spec of space dust keeps on spinning. Strength, unity, community is and always has been a prerequisite for earthly living. Consider even our recent ancestors. You had to be determined just to be back then. A few generations ago – they didn’t even have fans. It would’ve been scary hot back then without a breeze. And

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22. Mirror Energy

Into The Now ·

2022/08/11

22. Mirror-Energy Enmity, strife, and turmoil became the currency of this age. Modern lives resemble rockets who refuse to switch their stage. Back-biting, growling, barking are how packs of dogs relate. We must now jettison That tired energy. And allow Love to radiate. Book: "Into The Now", (presale) by Arch Cowan Jones Website: Intothenow.org Instagram: IntoTheNowOfficial Youtube: Into The Now

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21. Let’s Talk About Oneness

Into The Now ·

2022/08/10

21. Let’s Talk About Oneness ‘Christians’ tend to get squirmy when you approach the topic of Oneness. Like it somehow detracts from God when we transcend the false bravado of otherness. What’s a higher honor than to follow into God eternally as Spirit leads? The inevitable singularity of Love is our destiny! Whisper the mystics and the trees. Let’s talk this through a little. None of your beliefs have to change. Let the grip on ideologies just wiggle. Let Spirit tell of a faith with some range. It’s

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20. “…Ah, so. How can I help?”

Into The Now ·

2022/08/09

20.. “…Ah, so. How can I help?” The combined mantras “…Ah, so.”* And “How can I help?”** this morning fell heavy on my heart. Contemplating stars from a hammock on the patio, time spent with the Cosmos is becoming a lost art. Gravity fools us that we’re looking up and not out. But in reality, we are looking off from Earth’s side. Is Anyone out there hearing our shouts? Humanity’s drowning in all the ways we divide. Meditating outside, just before first light. You realize if we could see every star

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19. A Modern Fairy Tale

Into The Now ·

2022/08/08

19. A Modern Fairy Tale Modern life has become some trippy-ass fairy tale. With treats and treasures dropping from the sky by parachute pails. We’re taught to squabble over scraps and envy fame. Like castaway children in the Hunger Games.* Society has conditioned us to feel stranded and alone. Left to make it on our own. But instead of a tropical island or mountain forest we… live at home. And media polls disclose we do jobs we loathe as if we were drones. But I guess as long as the

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18. Vehicular Egoicide

Into The Now ·

2022/08/06

18.Vehicular Egoicide Our vehicles are failing us. They all will be recycled. All will go to one place, all are from the dust. And to stardust they will return. Our protests have it wrong, but not in what it is that we believe. But in winning public vindication to now become the enemy. Injustice will not die by abolishing the prisons. Exchanging now oppressors for new oppressors became the goal of our divisions. As long as our oppressors have their human sacrifice, they’ll force-feed us tribal

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17. After Beating COVID

Into The Now ·

2022/08/05

17. After Beating COVID After beating COVID Memaw died at 86 of allothercauses right before Christmas this year. I typically feel mournful tears rise when a loved one dies. But today at her burial I could not cry. Cathartic tears did not well up in my eyes. I guess because I saw it... As in far-off. She’s gone somewhere I soon will follow. But I don’t mean this same ground in this same hollow. But follow Memaw to ‘Heaven’, the great cosmic Valhalla. So, I just stood there and stared off down the

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16. Tracking Solo

Into The Now ·

2022/08/04

16. Tracking Solo There is a war of consciousness inside my head. Ever chattering fears and desires fall on me like a cartoon piano before I even make it out of bed. I don’t know why I do it or why it’s done to me. The “knowledge of good and evil”* are my fetters binding moments… from Being free. I try to practice loving presence. And I ask for help along the way. But it always seems as if I’m told instead, I should preference the ideologies that produced these days. Days marked by strife. The

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15. How Will it Look to See Us Eat in the Future?

Into The Now ·

2022/08/03

15.How Will it Look to See Us Eat in the Future? How will it look to see us eat… in the future? Was the thought I had finishing off the last of a protein shake. Food, after we are forced to realize that the separateness of ego-consciousness was the antichrist. Not the goal. We made a collective mistake. A future when meat and vegetables are not plentiful anymore. Because Corporations and Politicians once upon a time held the tap wide open, full pour. Oh, to be truly impoverished. Forsaken. Living in

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14. Work Shoes

Into The Now ·

2022/08/02

14.Work Shoes There was dried grass stuck to the soles of my black work shoes and dust all across the toes. The last time I had them on my feet I remember those toes… they almost froze. I helped carry my Uncle Bruce through the snow to his grave. Uncle Bruce was a man of the snow, and wouldn’t you know it, it snowed that day. It was a swirling, dancing, haze it was Bruce’s good-bye wave. I pulled them out again today to say good-bye to cousin-Cal. Separated by age and health, but wouldn’t you know

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