from Hunt for the Holy in the forest, nature preserve of Mount Union College 4/14/2002 and Rocky River Reservation 9/17/2003 Michael Olin-Hitt Christopher Reynolds The Holy and Nature Spirit: (deep inhalation), oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh! mmmmmmmmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, you come as the light fades to seek the light. shall i tell you? shall i tell you the Glow, the Glow shall come to you. the Glow as the light fades. shall you not see the Glow? what makes the tree turn toward the light? what makes the flower open in the day? what sight is given to the owl? what knowledge springs forth from the soil? the Wisdom is all around you. the Wisdom is all around you. the Wisdom is all around you. the Wisdom is all around you. all around you the Wisdom is all around you. it is the ability to see you seek for the Wisdom is all around you to be read, to be known mmmmm. it is the ability to SEE! you seek to see!, but to see you must know not understand, but know, to see, you must know to know, you must enter to enter, you must release to release, you must risk to risk, you must trust to trust do you know that you can be swallowed by the Earth? swallowed by the Earth to trust, you must know that it is Holy you must release the fear of losing self you must enter into the bosom there you shall know the wholeness then you shall see the relationships the forms are maleable Matter means little, Spirit is all yet Spirit is in Matter the human can become the dog the dog can become the eagle the eagle can know the fishhhh shall you not be swallowed by the Earth? shall you not be consumed by the Earth? shall you not dive into the Earth? shall you not travel now? travel now travel now into the Earth into the bosom, into the very womb shall you not be a seed? to die? it shall sprout breaking forth from the husk why should you live as a husk? shed now the husk sprout forth new leaves that shall receive that shall RECEIVE! the light hmmmmmmm there are spirits there are spirits there are indeed spirits of the wood Holy and Playful enduring, enduring, enduring, playful, in spite of the enchroachments enduring and meek resilient it has been so long since the human has entered it is hardly longed for so long since the human has come into this dance to know the dance spins out of balance without the human but it continues it has its own pattern now, out of balance, but beautiful it is a spinning a whirling, a playing who ignores whom now?! so, you come and seek to enter the dance? chrisdog: "yes!" do you come now? chrisdog "yes!" you expect to be embraced? chrisdog: "only hope to be embraced. to expect, is an insult" "i don't expect it. i only come hopefully." you hope to be embraced you hope to be embraced you hope to be embraced to enter, to enter to be consumed to be transformed it is the pattern, do you not know, the pattern? hope. hope to be embraced to enter to be consumed, to be transformed the wisdom is all around you the wisdom is all around you what would it say if it could speak? what would the tree tell you? what would the ground whisper? what would the locust say of his journey? it is not for words it is not for words it is not for words it is not for words from 9/17/2002 Rocky River Reservation come! come! come! come! come! come! do you need an invitation? do you need a hand outstretched? chrisdog: yes the hand is outstretched the hand is outstretched the invitation is made take my hand relax into my embrace find in me love, love beyond love release beyond release i shall caress you out i shall caress you out this hair shall not bind you this face shall not hold you this body shall not encase you the dance is a swirl, a swirl, a swirl of smoke the dance is a swirl, a swirl, a swirl of smoke the dance is a swirl, a swirl, a swirl of smoke chridsog: how shall i call you? i am yours i am yours you have called me you have called me chrisdog: how? earnestness, earnestness, earnestness yearning, Holy yearning do not think, feel feel with Spirit feel with Spirit feel with Spirit the you within the You, this is not my language feel, simply feel (whispered) simply feel, simply feel it is a relax as in sleep a surrender as in sleep a surrender to a heightened awareness of the Real for what is Real? it is not Physical what is Real what is Real? what is enduring? do you see the Physical passing passing away, season by season the Physical passes away it sheds, it melts, the Physical passes away the Spirit passes through the Physical the Spirit comes into the Physical and when the Physical passes away the Spirit endures i ask you then, what is Real? that which endures. the Voice now shall come not through human words the Voice now shall come through what surrounds you