2010/07/19 Red-Blooded Poem by Margaret Alice

Then the whole Spiel disintegrated into a
‘synthesized global spirituality’ where each
religion supplements the others – a utopia
that sounds so boring - and worse

James Redfield’s literal interpretation of
Biblical vision with all religions and secular
idealism coming together in a grand temple
in Jerusalem - a vision of world peace

represents the flattest, one-dimensional,
undifferentiated picture, no excitement in
conflict and argument to lead to new con-
sensus - just one big loving feeling

No way, earth could never become so tame,
seekers of world peace will have to create it
in other spheres, earth is meant for drama,
intrigue - even when my heart is pierced

Even when champagne stops fizzling in my
veins in resigned acceptance of a way of life
that compresses the mind into the smallest
space, the world is a much too adventurous,

exciting place to be run by the sweet, no-conflict,
all-loving vision, dissonance must provide a back-
ground for harmony, it is great to hate in frustration
in order to see the difference between

love and rejection - I cannot imagine a peaceful
earth, this physical dimension is meant for valour,
war and challenge and fighting and victory – not
for smiling blankly in some kind of nirvana

Those are peak moments only, let them go, they are
reserved for the non-physical dimensions where red-
blooded, hot-headed conflict-loving humans cannot
go! We are not ready for that yet!


“The Tenth Insight” James Redfield – Bantam Book
1996, quoted from p 211