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Baba
The following is an epic poem relating the adventures of Baba, it’s mythological hero. As with all men, Baba has many facets to his personality. He is simultaneously part saint, part criminal, and part fool. When Baba drops out of university in his freshman year, he leaves the west coast of British Columbia and begins a spiritual odyssey.
This poem is a linear presentation of his four year journey through multiple mental and physical planes of existence. It’s source was imprinted revelations of Canada, America, Mexico, Morocco, England, France, Holland, Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
These physical realities were perceptually modified through the mediums of L.S.D., peyote, hyoscyamine, methadrine, cocaine, alcohol, barbiturates, marijuana, hashish, opium, morphine, and heroin.
Baba’s explorations of Christian, Islamic, and Hindu cultures are both a search for experience and an escape from identity. He may be termed a sensual mystic. To Baba his pilgrimage is primarily of a spiritual nature, and no one is more surprised than himself at the form which his enlightenment takes nor the identity of his unintentional guru.
His journey is not unique. It is a psychic odyssey experienced by every person, and the pattern of his karma unfolds with an inevitability inherent in the nature of man himself. An ancient myth is repeated and the cycle begins anew.
The seed of consciousness is carried by taoist mountain streams, flowers psychedelically into fragrant yellow petals and wilts during indian summer under burning heroin sun. Summer becomes autumn, becomes winter, becomes spring. The beginning of this poem becomes it’s ending. It’s ending takes roots, sprouting new dimensional spores through perpetual tambourine skies.
Goa, India
Feb. 1969
This poem is a linear presentation of his four year journey through multiple mental and physical planes of existence. It’s source was imprinted revelations of Canada, America, Mexico, Morocco, England, France, Holland, Belgium, West Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
These physical realities were perceptually modified through the mediums of L.S.D., peyote, hyoscyamine, methadrine, cocaine, alcohol, barbiturates, marijuana, hashish, opium, morphine, and heroin.
Baba’s explorations of Christian, Islamic, and Hindu cultures are both a search for experience and an escape from identity. He may be termed a sensual mystic. To Baba his pilgrimage is primarily of a spiritual nature, and no one is more surprised than himself at the form which his enlightenment takes nor the identity of his unintentional guru.
His journey is not unique. It is a psychic odyssey experienced by every person, and the pattern of his karma unfolds with an inevitability inherent in the nature of man himself. An ancient myth is repeated and the cycle begins anew.
The seed of consciousness is carried by taoist mountain streams, flowers psychedelically into fragrant yellow petals and wilts during indian summer under burning heroin sun. Summer becomes autumn, becomes winter, becomes spring. The beginning of this poem becomes it’s ending. It’s ending takes roots, sprouting new dimensional spores through perpetual tambourine skies.
Goa, India
Feb. 1969
136 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 15, 1969
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