Julie
asked
Rose Rosetree:
Dear Rose, I loved the poetry in "Bigger Than All the Night Sky" and your other books. What do you think is important in writing poetry? What makes a poem a poem?
Rose Rosetree
Thank you so much, Julie, for my first "Ask the Author" conversation about poetry. How wonderful!
I’m so glad you notice how chunks of poetry are discreetly packed into just about all my published books, usually in the Dedication near the start.
You’re right though, I did pack quite a lot of poetry into "Bigger Than All the Night Sky." In a way you could say that the best of my relationship with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – as described in that book – had something in common with the lead characters in Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet.”
Before I explain what I mean about this, though, let's pause for an overview.
PREVIEWING MY RESPONSE
1. Responding to your question, Julie, I’d like to start by commenting on all the poetry packed into my memoir. Usually I start each of my books with a poem. But why? Initially I’ll explain why, during the time covered in this memoir, I had to include so many much poetry.
2. This can lead beautifully into responding to your question, What makes a poem a poem?
I would love go into this incredibly personal topic, where everybody has a pretty strong opinion, and no two opinions need be alike: What do – and don’t – I call poetry?
3. Following that, how about telling you and other Goodreaders WHY I insist on including a poem in every one of my nonfiction books? Seems like essential background for answering your official questions. 😊
4. Finally (and thanks for your patience), I’ll answer your question about What do you think is important in writing poetry? Differently put, what is my personal version of writing poetry?
Here we go then, Julie and everybody reading here. Poetry need not be practical, not in my view. But answers to “Ask the Author” questions here on Goodreads must work in practical reality. Regardless of how much I love good poetry!
TALKING TO YOUR GURU, AS IF HE WERE SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO
Back to what I shared before, about how the best of my relationship with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, as described in Bigger than All the Night Sky, had a lot in common with Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet” . . . .
Famous though that love story is, one interesting detail doesn’t receive much acknowledgment. Whenever Romeo talks directly to Juliet, or vice versa, guess what? They always speak in iambic pentameter, arguably the single best meter for poetry in the English language.
Why don’t most people comment on that? Heck, who can ever fathom most people!
My guess is that it was very common for Shakespeare’s characters in his plays to slip into iambic pentameter. Scholars call this blank verse. For example, I love these lines at the start of Richard III:
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by the house of York.
Seems to me, poetry often happens when you share information with what I call “High Truth Value” -- incidentally, that's a good term to google, including quotes; in which case you’ll find some articles I’ve written on that topic.
ABOUT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MAHARISHI
Over the years that relationship changed considerably. Oooh, my “personal relationship” such as it was, with the very hard-to-get teacher, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He was, perhaps, the most influential guru who ever lived, responsible for an estimated 6 million people learning his technique of Transcendental Meditation.
Most often, these days, I refer to that relationship by calling Maharishi my former, late, ex-guru.
But back in the day? As you may recall from Bigger than All the Night Sky, the first time I heard Maharishi speak was at one of his first Teacher Training Courses in America, held in 1969 at Poland Springs, Maine.
Soon as his first meeting was over, I raced to my room at the hotel. All I could do was to sit down and write him a poem.
In that memoir you can read some details about how, later that day, I tried to hand a copy of this poem to Maharishi. Some details! These weren’t “juicy details” but poignant details, verging on pitiful.
On the spot, Maharishi refused to accept the poetry on paper that I offered him. Instead, he asked me to read it to him, then and there. Not the first time that Maharishi caused my inner world to explode . . . ultimately for the better.
When it became clear that I was far too shy to read a word, Maharishi said lightly, “Read it in one of our meetings, then, so everybody can enjoy."
After two weeks of anguish, and a ton of meditation, I was finally read to do this.
LONG STORY SHORT
Like Juliet, in a sense, I mostly spoke to Maharishi by reading him poetry. Seriously, Julie and other Goodreaders, I remember every single time that I spoke to my guru. Every word that he said in response was etched firmly into my memory as well.
It helped that I had the easy recall of a 21-year-old.
For sure, during my entire relationship with Maharishi, I spoke more poetry than regular prose. Even then, as you can guess, Julie, I didn’t publish all of those poems in Bigger than All the Night Sky. How many readers of a memoir would have had enough patience for all of them? Including extras really would have been asking too much.
2. WHAT MAKES A POEM A POEM?
Call it weird. Or maybe call it a defining characteristic. To this writer, God matters more than anything else.
At some points in my life I’ve been religious, at other times not, but God matters most has always been my default.
When I respond to what makes a poem a poem, my answer is shaped by that.
Incidentally, Julie -- Julie who has a direct pipeline to what makes me tick -- I’ve never written about any of this before. Neither in books or blogposts, when writing book reviews here on Goodreads; not in online workshops nor while giving Energy Spirituality® workshops in person. Even talking to friends, I’ve never talked about this directly, despite a lifetime that has included a great deal of talking to close friends. But there it is.
Granted, what if you asked anybody who knows me well, “What do you think matters most to Rose Rosetree?” My friends might have put that together. But never because I ever told them anything like this:
“Hello, it’s good to meet you. I am very interested in getting to know you better. Please do keep in mind though, no matter how much I like you or love you, I’ll always care most about God.”
Fortunately for my friends, I’d say! This priority actually makes it easier for me to like people and love them and learn about them; to be of service to them when I can as the founder of Energy Spirituality; to share laughter and every other good thing that can be part of a human-type relationship.
Due to this way of being wired for life, that's why -- when I have something most important to say -- I write poetry.
IN GENERAL, FOR ANYBODY, WHAT MAKES A POEM A POEM?
Seems to me that a poem is superlative speech. More than good, clear words that would be effective in a business meeting: Instead, poetry must be most beautifully expressed. As if, hearing it or reading it, the truth value is so . . . truthy . . . that, for a moment, words fail the listener. Silence and gratitude are the more likely responses.
* Must poetry be clever? Ick! I don’t think so.
* Nor must poetry impress the listener? Rather, real poetry wakes up the reader or listener, wakes each of us up from inside ourselves.
* Must poetry rhyme? Only if your literary education hit PAUSE when you were in second grade.
* If you frame words with plenty of white space, making them to seem important visually, does that trick of spacious typesetting magically turn the words into poetry?
Growl! I don’t think so.
As a book reviewer here on Goodreads, over 4,000 reviews to date, I have had my fill of poetry that is affected or clumsy or clueless, etc. In those reviews, sometimes I’ll complain about the most egregious examples. Mostly, I’ll think, “This is supposed to be a poem?” Rarely, I’ll admire and praise.
MUST THE TOPIC OF A REAL POEM BE ABOUT GOD?
Of course not! Julie, I think you may have read another one of my books, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening. Some of you Goodreaders may have read it too, in which case you learned something important about how consciousness works. To summarize: CONTENT is different from PROCESS.
- Meaning, what a person is talking or writing about? That’s the CONTENT, the topic.
- Whereas, the impact of those words on the person’s awareness, or consciousness? That is the PROCESS.
Poetry can contribute to spiritual awakening (before the person moves into Spiritual Enlightenment).
Likewise, poetry can help people to learn and grow after they have crossed the threshold into Spiritual Enlightenment – at least if that poetry listener is living in Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
TECHNICAL POINT
Age of Awakening Enlightenment is a second version of Spiritual Enlightenment. This consciousness lifestyle began to blossom for some spiritual seekers after the Shift into the Age of Awakening on Dec. 21, 2012.
Traditional Enlightenment, the first version of Spiritual Enlightenment, continues to be lived by some souls, and it’s awesome.
However, according to research that I’ve done professionally regarding consciousness, folks in Traditional Enlightenment do not experience spiritual learning, as in personal growth, as in PROCESS. They live saturated in bliss, which is plenty.
Would any of you like to learn more about this? Here’s a resource. You might google “Age of Awakening Enlightenment Vs. Trad Enlightenment” – which can take you to an article at my blog where you will definitely be able to learn more. If you like, you can also use a COMMENT box at that blogpost if you have any questions that you would like to ask me.
SUMMING UP: WHAT IS MY PERSONAL VERSION OF WRITING POETRY
Before I, personally, write a poem – what happens? There is a PROCESS, a process that I have come to recognize since the life experiences recounted in Bigger than All the Night Sky.
I will hear the sound of the poem. Or feel it. Or both.
Do I know, in that moment, a single thing about what I will be writing about? Not at all. Rather, I have come to recognize that PROCESS, that presence.
Sometimes I will inwardly catch the first line. Other times, I don't even know that much. It’s as though that poem is calling me. Not being a fool, I make it a priority to sit down at my keyboard and write that first draft.
What do all my poems have in common? That PROCESS.
After I finish cocreating with God to write the first draft . . . And yes, since 1985 I have learned some skills for setting in motion that kind of cocreation. (This is something I teach in Energy Spirituality workshops and books.)
After completing my first draft, then I use my editing skills. And use them more than once. Since that’s my human job, as an author who is writing to reach the people of her time and place.
Julie, if you or others would like to hear and see me reading a recent finished poem, you might google “Today’s Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh” – which will take you to a YouTube video where I shared my Christmas poem for last year.
WHY INCLUDE A POEM IN EVERY ONE OF MY NONFICTION BOOKS?
Thanks for your patience, Julie and other readers. I have no way of knowing how many of you are at all interested in this topic, yet this can be of great interest to some of you, I do want to include these last two chunks of response to your great “Ask the Author” question.
For decades now, I have insisted on including a poem in every one of my nonfiction books. But why?
Because I want to give something to my fellow lovers of God, and my fellow poetry readers – and that’s what a poem is, to me. Seems to me, we live at a time when poetry is nearly unknown. I am one of those writers who seeks to revive it.
Let’s face it. Poetry, today, is pretty darned unfashionable.
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend I will call Gladys. She’s a delightful person, now in her late 30s. This friend is a devoted mother of three lively sons, aged seven and younger.
Gladys is far better adjusted to living in American society than I’ve ever been. (Although I have improved considerably, compared to the teenager and one-time hippie you’ll meet in Bigger than All the Night Sky.)
As we chit-chatted away, I asked Gladys, “Which kinds of kid music do you play for them?” Then I followed up by asking her something culturally ignorant – which I only realized later. Because I asked Gladys, “Are you giving them a chance to hear any classical music?”
“Sure,” she answered. “I love classic rock, and I play it for them all the time.”
Thus, my question exposed a bit of a gap in our backgrounds. The childhood described in Bigger than All the Night Sky included attending “Young People’s Concerts.” These were narrated and conducted by Leonard Bernstein. To me, “the classics” are not “I can’t get no satisfaction.”
Just as I grew up listening to classical music, I was exposed to poetry. Although my parents weren’t poetry lovers, we had a vinyl record where Dylan Thomas read some of his poems. Plus, I encountered poetry in high school. Mysteriously, somehow, I bought my own paperback copy of poetry by Basho.
But today? Some of us still like poetry, although most people don’t even have to hide their indifference to it.
For this author, whenever I bring a new book into the world, after it’s first drafted (at a minimum), I always ask God to bless that book by giving me a poem to include at that start.
Probably all you Goodreaders have heard of a certain saying from Jesus: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks.
When it comes to poetry, I’m willing to do the asking, the knocking. Then do the trusting, then the listening. Later I will be very willing to do the edits.
All in all, including a poem near the start of each book is my privilege, absolutely a joy.
WHAT DO YOU I THINK IS IMPORTANT IN WRITING POETRY?
Honesty helps. Calling a spade a spade – I’d say that’s pretty essential for any kind of poetry.
If, like me, you would like to cocreate poetry in a sacred process, then you ask God for that, and you only ask when you really want it or need it.
Akin to when I send a special kind of prayer to God, what I call a Screaming Prayer. Whatever you personally call these, Goodreaders, maybe you can relate:
I’ve done a small number of these in my life. One reason they are always answered (in my experience) is that I wouldn’t dream of sending out a Screaming Prayer unless I really, really needed it.
In CONCLUSION
Thanks so much for asking, Julie. My morning has flown by. This answer has been long, and I thank all of you kindred spirits who have read all the way through. Here’s to poetry in our lives now and for the foreseeable future, whether or not – in our lifetimes -- poetry will ever be fashionable.
I’m so glad you notice how chunks of poetry are discreetly packed into just about all my published books, usually in the Dedication near the start.
You’re right though, I did pack quite a lot of poetry into "Bigger Than All the Night Sky." In a way you could say that the best of my relationship with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – as described in that book – had something in common with the lead characters in Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet.”
Before I explain what I mean about this, though, let's pause for an overview.
PREVIEWING MY RESPONSE
1. Responding to your question, Julie, I’d like to start by commenting on all the poetry packed into my memoir. Usually I start each of my books with a poem. But why? Initially I’ll explain why, during the time covered in this memoir, I had to include so many much poetry.
2. This can lead beautifully into responding to your question, What makes a poem a poem?
I would love go into this incredibly personal topic, where everybody has a pretty strong opinion, and no two opinions need be alike: What do – and don’t – I call poetry?
3. Following that, how about telling you and other Goodreaders WHY I insist on including a poem in every one of my nonfiction books? Seems like essential background for answering your official questions. 😊
4. Finally (and thanks for your patience), I’ll answer your question about What do you think is important in writing poetry? Differently put, what is my personal version of writing poetry?
Here we go then, Julie and everybody reading here. Poetry need not be practical, not in my view. But answers to “Ask the Author” questions here on Goodreads must work in practical reality. Regardless of how much I love good poetry!
TALKING TO YOUR GURU, AS IF HE WERE SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO
Back to what I shared before, about how the best of my relationship with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, as described in Bigger than All the Night Sky, had a lot in common with Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet” . . . .
Famous though that love story is, one interesting detail doesn’t receive much acknowledgment. Whenever Romeo talks directly to Juliet, or vice versa, guess what? They always speak in iambic pentameter, arguably the single best meter for poetry in the English language.
Why don’t most people comment on that? Heck, who can ever fathom most people!
My guess is that it was very common for Shakespeare’s characters in his plays to slip into iambic pentameter. Scholars call this blank verse. For example, I love these lines at the start of Richard III:
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by the house of York.
Seems to me, poetry often happens when you share information with what I call “High Truth Value” -- incidentally, that's a good term to google, including quotes; in which case you’ll find some articles I’ve written on that topic.
ABOUT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MAHARISHI
Over the years that relationship changed considerably. Oooh, my “personal relationship” such as it was, with the very hard-to-get teacher, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He was, perhaps, the most influential guru who ever lived, responsible for an estimated 6 million people learning his technique of Transcendental Meditation.
Most often, these days, I refer to that relationship by calling Maharishi my former, late, ex-guru.
But back in the day? As you may recall from Bigger than All the Night Sky, the first time I heard Maharishi speak was at one of his first Teacher Training Courses in America, held in 1969 at Poland Springs, Maine.
Soon as his first meeting was over, I raced to my room at the hotel. All I could do was to sit down and write him a poem.
In that memoir you can read some details about how, later that day, I tried to hand a copy of this poem to Maharishi. Some details! These weren’t “juicy details” but poignant details, verging on pitiful.
On the spot, Maharishi refused to accept the poetry on paper that I offered him. Instead, he asked me to read it to him, then and there. Not the first time that Maharishi caused my inner world to explode . . . ultimately for the better.
When it became clear that I was far too shy to read a word, Maharishi said lightly, “Read it in one of our meetings, then, so everybody can enjoy."
After two weeks of anguish, and a ton of meditation, I was finally read to do this.
LONG STORY SHORT
Like Juliet, in a sense, I mostly spoke to Maharishi by reading him poetry. Seriously, Julie and other Goodreaders, I remember every single time that I spoke to my guru. Every word that he said in response was etched firmly into my memory as well.
It helped that I had the easy recall of a 21-year-old.
For sure, during my entire relationship with Maharishi, I spoke more poetry than regular prose. Even then, as you can guess, Julie, I didn’t publish all of those poems in Bigger than All the Night Sky. How many readers of a memoir would have had enough patience for all of them? Including extras really would have been asking too much.
2. WHAT MAKES A POEM A POEM?
Call it weird. Or maybe call it a defining characteristic. To this writer, God matters more than anything else.
At some points in my life I’ve been religious, at other times not, but God matters most has always been my default.
When I respond to what makes a poem a poem, my answer is shaped by that.
Incidentally, Julie -- Julie who has a direct pipeline to what makes me tick -- I’ve never written about any of this before. Neither in books or blogposts, when writing book reviews here on Goodreads; not in online workshops nor while giving Energy Spirituality® workshops in person. Even talking to friends, I’ve never talked about this directly, despite a lifetime that has included a great deal of talking to close friends. But there it is.
Granted, what if you asked anybody who knows me well, “What do you think matters most to Rose Rosetree?” My friends might have put that together. But never because I ever told them anything like this:
“Hello, it’s good to meet you. I am very interested in getting to know you better. Please do keep in mind though, no matter how much I like you or love you, I’ll always care most about God.”
Fortunately for my friends, I’d say! This priority actually makes it easier for me to like people and love them and learn about them; to be of service to them when I can as the founder of Energy Spirituality; to share laughter and every other good thing that can be part of a human-type relationship.
Due to this way of being wired for life, that's why -- when I have something most important to say -- I write poetry.
IN GENERAL, FOR ANYBODY, WHAT MAKES A POEM A POEM?
Seems to me that a poem is superlative speech. More than good, clear words that would be effective in a business meeting: Instead, poetry must be most beautifully expressed. As if, hearing it or reading it, the truth value is so . . . truthy . . . that, for a moment, words fail the listener. Silence and gratitude are the more likely responses.
* Must poetry be clever? Ick! I don’t think so.
* Nor must poetry impress the listener? Rather, real poetry wakes up the reader or listener, wakes each of us up from inside ourselves.
* Must poetry rhyme? Only if your literary education hit PAUSE when you were in second grade.
* If you frame words with plenty of white space, making them to seem important visually, does that trick of spacious typesetting magically turn the words into poetry?
Growl! I don’t think so.
As a book reviewer here on Goodreads, over 4,000 reviews to date, I have had my fill of poetry that is affected or clumsy or clueless, etc. In those reviews, sometimes I’ll complain about the most egregious examples. Mostly, I’ll think, “This is supposed to be a poem?” Rarely, I’ll admire and praise.
MUST THE TOPIC OF A REAL POEM BE ABOUT GOD?
Of course not! Julie, I think you may have read another one of my books, Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening. Some of you Goodreaders may have read it too, in which case you learned something important about how consciousness works. To summarize: CONTENT is different from PROCESS.
- Meaning, what a person is talking or writing about? That’s the CONTENT, the topic.
- Whereas, the impact of those words on the person’s awareness, or consciousness? That is the PROCESS.
Poetry can contribute to spiritual awakening (before the person moves into Spiritual Enlightenment).
Likewise, poetry can help people to learn and grow after they have crossed the threshold into Spiritual Enlightenment – at least if that poetry listener is living in Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
TECHNICAL POINT
Age of Awakening Enlightenment is a second version of Spiritual Enlightenment. This consciousness lifestyle began to blossom for some spiritual seekers after the Shift into the Age of Awakening on Dec. 21, 2012.
Traditional Enlightenment, the first version of Spiritual Enlightenment, continues to be lived by some souls, and it’s awesome.
However, according to research that I’ve done professionally regarding consciousness, folks in Traditional Enlightenment do not experience spiritual learning, as in personal growth, as in PROCESS. They live saturated in bliss, which is plenty.
Would any of you like to learn more about this? Here’s a resource. You might google “Age of Awakening Enlightenment Vs. Trad Enlightenment” – which can take you to an article at my blog where you will definitely be able to learn more. If you like, you can also use a COMMENT box at that blogpost if you have any questions that you would like to ask me.
SUMMING UP: WHAT IS MY PERSONAL VERSION OF WRITING POETRY
Before I, personally, write a poem – what happens? There is a PROCESS, a process that I have come to recognize since the life experiences recounted in Bigger than All the Night Sky.
I will hear the sound of the poem. Or feel it. Or both.
Do I know, in that moment, a single thing about what I will be writing about? Not at all. Rather, I have come to recognize that PROCESS, that presence.
Sometimes I will inwardly catch the first line. Other times, I don't even know that much. It’s as though that poem is calling me. Not being a fool, I make it a priority to sit down at my keyboard and write that first draft.
What do all my poems have in common? That PROCESS.
After I finish cocreating with God to write the first draft . . . And yes, since 1985 I have learned some skills for setting in motion that kind of cocreation. (This is something I teach in Energy Spirituality workshops and books.)
After completing my first draft, then I use my editing skills. And use them more than once. Since that’s my human job, as an author who is writing to reach the people of her time and place.
Julie, if you or others would like to hear and see me reading a recent finished poem, you might google “Today’s Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh” – which will take you to a YouTube video where I shared my Christmas poem for last year.
WHY INCLUDE A POEM IN EVERY ONE OF MY NONFICTION BOOKS?
Thanks for your patience, Julie and other readers. I have no way of knowing how many of you are at all interested in this topic, yet this can be of great interest to some of you, I do want to include these last two chunks of response to your great “Ask the Author” question.
For decades now, I have insisted on including a poem in every one of my nonfiction books. But why?
Because I want to give something to my fellow lovers of God, and my fellow poetry readers – and that’s what a poem is, to me. Seems to me, we live at a time when poetry is nearly unknown. I am one of those writers who seeks to revive it.
Let’s face it. Poetry, today, is pretty darned unfashionable.
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend I will call Gladys. She’s a delightful person, now in her late 30s. This friend is a devoted mother of three lively sons, aged seven and younger.
Gladys is far better adjusted to living in American society than I’ve ever been. (Although I have improved considerably, compared to the teenager and one-time hippie you’ll meet in Bigger than All the Night Sky.)
As we chit-chatted away, I asked Gladys, “Which kinds of kid music do you play for them?” Then I followed up by asking her something culturally ignorant – which I only realized later. Because I asked Gladys, “Are you giving them a chance to hear any classical music?”
“Sure,” she answered. “I love classic rock, and I play it for them all the time.”
Thus, my question exposed a bit of a gap in our backgrounds. The childhood described in Bigger than All the Night Sky included attending “Young People’s Concerts.” These were narrated and conducted by Leonard Bernstein. To me, “the classics” are not “I can’t get no satisfaction.”
Just as I grew up listening to classical music, I was exposed to poetry. Although my parents weren’t poetry lovers, we had a vinyl record where Dylan Thomas read some of his poems. Plus, I encountered poetry in high school. Mysteriously, somehow, I bought my own paperback copy of poetry by Basho.
But today? Some of us still like poetry, although most people don’t even have to hide their indifference to it.
For this author, whenever I bring a new book into the world, after it’s first drafted (at a minimum), I always ask God to bless that book by giving me a poem to include at that start.
Probably all you Goodreaders have heard of a certain saying from Jesus: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks.
When it comes to poetry, I’m willing to do the asking, the knocking. Then do the trusting, then the listening. Later I will be very willing to do the edits.
All in all, including a poem near the start of each book is my privilege, absolutely a joy.
WHAT DO YOU I THINK IS IMPORTANT IN WRITING POETRY?
Honesty helps. Calling a spade a spade – I’d say that’s pretty essential for any kind of poetry.
If, like me, you would like to cocreate poetry in a sacred process, then you ask God for that, and you only ask when you really want it or need it.
Akin to when I send a special kind of prayer to God, what I call a Screaming Prayer. Whatever you personally call these, Goodreaders, maybe you can relate:
I’ve done a small number of these in my life. One reason they are always answered (in my experience) is that I wouldn’t dream of sending out a Screaming Prayer unless I really, really needed it.
In CONCLUSION
Thanks so much for asking, Julie. My morning has flown by. This answer has been long, and I thank all of you kindred spirits who have read all the way through. Here’s to poetry in our lives now and for the foreseeable future, whether or not – in our lifetimes -- poetry will ever be fashionable.
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Hi Rose - Thank you for answering questions. As I continue reading your book, “Bigger Than All the Night Sky” (second edition), I think I will have lots more questions :-) Would you please tell us more about "The Awakening Project"? It sounds like it's about awakening humanity! And on page 62 you mention the small pushpins (people) on your map that go from black to gold! Wow!
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