[Critique Group 2] Emailing: Equilibrium Restored---For 6-27-19 critique session.

[James]

Equilibrium Restored 
C By Brad Corallo
Word count 313

There is a point of balance
where thoughts and feelings are comfortable and liquid,
like the unruffled surface of a clear blue lake. 

In the search for full awareness, one may choose  
derangement of the senses to explore nonaudinary
altered states.
This can require courage.
As you never know where   such can take you. 
For many, the potential gains
don't out weigh the possible dangers.  
Such a view is certainly in the interest of self preservation
and may in fact be wisdom for some. 

However, if members of our species never took chances- 
even when some risk is involved-
who can say what we may never have learned? 

To journey out into the unexplored labyrinths of the mind- without
Ariadney's gift-
may be foolhardy and perilous! 
For if one manages to slay the Minatare but fails to return,
does their achievement have the same worth? 
Without the spool of thread she gifted him, 
he may well have been lost 
and the later exploits of Theseus never been. 

It is on the journey out, when one may find treasure,
while the journey home may be fraught with anguish and distress .
It is only after years of study
before the shaman begins his solitary spiritual journey.
 Or perhaps, it is as the confessional poetess tells us
just part of "the awful rowing toward God." 

Some decide that such adventures
are better left to younger explorers. 
Perhaps they are right.  
Though some special voyages can only be undertaken
by the elders with their accumulated wisdom.

As it was for St. Brendan age may never silence the call
of the shining yet elusive, isles of the west
and all their   unimaginable, bountiful, splendors. 


NOTE: This piece is not primarily autobiographical. Rather it is my tribute
to those intrepid psychonauts whom I have known in life and met in written
accounts.  

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