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					<description><![CDATA[By Zaheen Uddin Eyes shut, body still, mind calm, lights kill. Deceleration of breath whilst proliferation of death Rolling down the subconscious iceberg until Gears and cogs and clock hands turn and I forget— Stage one. You have arrived at the alpha. Here what you hear is distorted in your ears Mind is still well [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Zaheen Uddin</em></p>
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<p>Eyes shut, body still, mind calm, lights kill.</p>
<p>Deceleration of breath whilst proliferation of death</p>
<p>Rolling down the subconscious iceberg until</p>
<p>Gears and cogs and clock hands turn and I forget—</p>
<p>Stage one. You have arrived at the alpha.</p>
<p>Here what you hear is distorted in your ears</p>
<p>Mind is still well and alive but the site of an alfalfa</p>
<p>Is blind to the visible eye while it is near</p>
<p>Stage two. You have arrived at the theta.</p>
<p>Strange as it seems the fine line between reality and dreams</p>
<p>Are two in one, blended by the mind that runs data</p>
<p>Of past recollections into images in sections as it teems.</p>
<p>Stage three. You have arrived at the delta.</p>
<p>Processes have slowed, memories are stowed away to the subconscious bay</p>
<p>Whilst you enter a land stranded with sand without any shelter</p>
<p>And night is incumbent to veil the reasons of day.</p>
<p>Stage four. You have arrived at the gamma.</p>
<p>This is the part where everything changes.</p>
<p>Suddenly life emerges like a lightning striking the Panama</p>
<p>Canal of your ear and what you hope and fear ranges</p>
<p>Unlimitedly across the lands of imagination</p>
<p>Unknown and grown and stowed away in a strange place</p>
<p>Where whatever happens may precognize like inebriation</p>
<p>Or fantasize to realize what in wakefulness you vainly chase</p>
<p>Across the sky you fly in the sea you breathe</p>
<p>At the speed of sound on the ground and the world around</p>
<p>Fame and fortune and frolic, of fear your freed</p>
<p>Faeries and sprights and aeriform delights surround</p>
<p>Remnant memory in the form of reverie</p>
<p>Entering as thoughts manifest into reality’s reflection</p>
<p>Everyday nuances risen into the realm of the heavenly</p>
<p>Fettering like dots best described by science as brightened brain sections</p>
<p>Speaking of heavenly, let’s speak about that</p>
<p>Seeing that we’ve reached that fact as a matter of fact</p>
<p>And from twenty-seven to seventy thousand good deeds rack</p>
<p>Written with the pen of time on the fabric of fate in ink that is black</p>
<p>Of cosmic connectivity with such spiritual lucidity</p>
<p>From the black hole of the mind out of the soul synaptic ravine</p>
<p>Bridging the gap between the heavenly and the known reality</p>
<p>Despite what the heart desires to which it inclines</p>
<p>Here, a plane beyond this Earth is visualized</p>
<p>Fear is just a construct of illusiveness</p>
<p>Tears are irrelevant in a place you’ll never face ill-speech or lies</p>
<p>Peer into the telescope of the ethereal condusiveness</p>
<p>That which is divine is given as signs from above</p>
<p>Beyond wordly love higher than the flight of a dove</p>
<p>Somewhere near, somewhere close, somewhere you’ll never get enough</p>
<p>Because you’ll be fulfilled with ambrosian stuff</p>
<p>A home of messengers, martyrs, men alike</p>
<p>Who believed, perceived, and conceived the truth like the eye of the night</p>
<p>Never giving up hope or abandoning the fight</p>
<p>In dreams of an eternity that more than suffices their plight</p>
<p>Until you reach the high plane</p>
<p>Where the veil is lifted</p>
<p>Nothing is conceivable to the physical brain</p>
<p>And light upon light, upon you is gifted!!</p>
<p>Pleased with you, and you pleased with Him</p>
<p>This is the ultimate attainment!</p>
<p>Cups and chalices of silver filled to the brim</p>
<p>Of all your desires there is no containment!!!</p>
<p>Ethereal, surreal, this is a dream yet for real</p>
<p>You wish to reach such heights, you think and you feel</p>
<p>And the One you wish to impress knows what you conceal</p>
<p>So you do not digress, and before Him you kneel</p>
<p>Forty years you see what you once believed</p>
<p>In awe, in fear, in enlightenment, in exaltation</p>
<p>Compact into seconds, you have perceived</p>
<p>The recitation of an invocation for nations is now realization</p>
<p>Elated, pupils dilated and deeds are weighted</p>
<p>And if a feather is heavier it is stated</p>
<p>That you will reside and abide in a bode verily hated</p>
<p>By all like, so then why did you abate it?</p>
<p>Flames that purge, flames that scourge</p>
<p>A spark as large as a sallow fortress</p>
<p>Blame is dispersed, the blame is all yours</p>
<p>Why did you not stop when you had time to forfeit?</p>
<p>Screams, despair, dreams are now nightmares</p>
<p>Demons don’t care how painful it is there</p>
<p>Water is not shared, scalding it tears</p>
<p>Through the insides, so I declare, why aren’t you scared!?!?</p>
<p>In between there and a place you wish to go</p>
<p>You teeter between fear and hope of Him</p>
<p>What you deem fair is faced with the throes</p>
<p>Of reality’s truth and not to your judgment or whims</p>
<p>Memories of old, premonitions of new</p>
<p>Fantasies so bold, renditions of the true</p>
<p>Wishes so fantastic, goals you slew</p>
<p>Dreams bombastic, extolled by you</p>
<p>Pulse of the universe beats to the rhythm of nature</p>
<p>Convulse in synchronicity, slowing in tempo</p>
<p>Until the BPM of heart reverts to start place or</p>
<p>The mind sublimes to the rhyme it’s scribed in decrescendo</p>
<p>Shift down, shut down, lift up, hear sound</p>
<p>Gears slow, mind softens, time is rewound</p>
<p>Stage four, stage three, stage two, stage one rebound</p>
<p>Timelessness is bound yet again with the now you found</p>
<p>Rising up from an unconscious sea of still</p>
<p>Acceleration of breath clock hand turn and I forget</p>
<p>As cogs and gears calm the mind, the mind’s lights kill</p>
<p>Eyes open, body fills with life renascent from the iteration of death.</p>
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