Thru That Darkest Door – Death is a Gateway

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Laughing Brook: Poetry for Sensual Consciousness

Peter Müller

27 episodes

2 weeks ago

In our Western, especially English speaking culture, we consider everything sensual and sexual as a taboo as far as public discourse is concerned. It is somehow considered dangerous, disturbing or even degrading, and hence we try to ban it from being present in the open. By banning intercourse from discourse, though, we’ve not only thrown out the baby with the bathwater, but the whole bathtub as well.

There is so much of aliveness lost in trying to ban sexuality and, in it’s wake, what we now deem ”sensuality“ – the term originally refers to ”anything senses“. How could you expect life to be full and real when you are dimming and obstructing your sensors?

This is a poem and a reflection about how we handle this topic in our culture.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:26 Explicit – Solo

00:02:04 A plea for sensuality

00:06:50 Explicit (Remix)

00:08:27 Outro

Voice over artist for this episode was Viktor Pavel, Berlin.

Shownotes, a transcript of this episode and more on laughingbrook.net.

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This is a poem and a reflection about how we handle this topic in our culture.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:26 Explicit – Solo

00:02:04 A plea for sensuality

00:06:50 Explicit (Remix)

00:08:27 Outro

Voice over artist for this episode was Viktor Pavel, Berlin.

Shownotes, a transcript of this episode and more on laughingbrook.net.

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Laughing Brook: Poetry for Sensual Consciousness

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Thru That Darkest Door – Death is a Gateway

Following my inner calling can lead me down a most adventurous path, and part of that journey is death – not necessarily physical death, but the death of something in my life. J. R. R. Tolkien put those oracle words into the mouth of Gandalf, “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Such a quest for your inner calling frequently leads to desperate moments in which I question everything and have a sense of being completely lost, in which I feel like a complete failure. This ”dark night of the soul”, as the Christian mystic John of the Cross has put it, seems to be a necessary passageway on this journey to that fertile land of which my longing informs me. Nothing for the faint of heart! But, oh my, how very worth it is the trip, once you’ve arrived, and how so very much worth it do those dark moments feel in hindsight. So, come on, put all your chips on the table and come on board …

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:26 Thru That Darkest Door – Solo

00:02:52 How death taught me to live

00:16:21 Thru That Darkest Door (Remix)

00:24:03 Outro

Shownotes, a transcript of this episode and more on laughingbrook.net.