Spirited Developments

Great and small spiritual teachers glowingly preach and promise disciplined pilgrim creatures Nirvana, Paradise, Heaven, Blissful Features. A timelessly perpetual climax no natural teacher this side of Eden's regenerative garden would dare speculate we might reasonably anticipate some great rewoven day of universal redemption. It is this Bliss, too univocal too monochromatic, I begin to question If this climatic experience is like a deep tight pond, bright yet stagnantly enclosed in attractively fond, Rather than a continuously flowing river of multicultural multigenerational poly-regenerational sensory experiences spouting out from Here as Now mouths back to light's first faintly felt flicker And forward to bright's most blissful moments reflected inflecting constant flowing functions of energies robustly positive, cooperative compassionate changing paradise returning me to this river never entered or exited exactly this same fluid nirvana twice. Not only because eco-rivers continuously flow but also because ego-identities continue to curiously grow sometimes far beyond any happy shores our natural and spiritual teachers have hoped to personally know.