At the
peak of his destructive cycle glen was so consumed by addictions, that on any
given day saw the abusive consumption of cocaine, MDMA powder, special K,
ecstasy, crystal meth, marijuana, prescription drugs (anti-depressants,
sleeping pills) and alcohol.
A time
that saw him attempting and failing to out race police cars through the streets
of a Melbourne suburb one night, to experiencing
a near death experience while bleeding out from a glass injury when holidaying
overseas, a time of daily self-harming with the prospect of suicide never being
far out of reach.
However,
through the unconditional love of his parents, glen found himself backpacking
though South America where a collection of events and direct experiences with
the local people and Mother Earth herself, triggered the beginning stages of
what would later become known to him as the shattering and dissolving of the
false identity of the illusionary mind-made-self and its “poor me” story.
An
inner-journey that awakens the spirit of love, known as glen, to not being a
personal identity as such but rather a way of being, a way of simplicity, a way
of the heart, a way that embraces and dances with the perfection of the present
moment like no other.
You can
visit the author’s website at www.spiritoflove.com.au or his
Facebook page at www.facebook.com/thespiritoflovebook.
About the Book:
The
Spirit of Love is a collection of short writings, poems and phrases written by a man
who took himself into some of the darkest and most destructive depths that one
can go with drug and alcohol
The
collection of writings contained within The Spirit of Love are the
result of one man’s healing journey within himself and the deep questioning
that has arisen from within it.
With the
love, support and guidance of his dear friend Edwina, in helping to bring these
writings from the handwritten scribbles on paper to how they are presented
today, The Spirit of Love is a reminder that no matter how dark,
desperate, alone, helpless or trapped one believes they may be, the sheer
beauty of the perfection of life in its totality is silently and patiently
living within us all, and its love is so powerful that it can heal anything
that has come to pass.
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Please
accept my deepest thanks and gratitude for creating a little slice of cyber space
to be here with you now, at The Literary Nook, I am most honoured that you have
allowed this space to be filled with this interview.
Thanks for this interview, Glen. Can we begin
by having you tell us about yourself and what do you believe is your life's calling?
I am not much for words
these days, as in silence is where one feels most at home and from such a space
there is not a lot that one can say about oneself. For at one time, when
attached and identified with the thinking mind’s perception of who it thinks it
is, I answered such queries with a little story about what I did or had done in
the past, whether it be a profession, job title, father, etc, however this is
no longer the case, as giving such an answer to your request is not the true
nature of who one is.
Maybe the following writing from within The Spirit of Love is a respectful way
to honour your request.
For whilst thoughts, emotions, content, story and experience is a
part of the journey, it is a mere ripple on the surface of the vast depthless
ocean of thy being, of which I know nothing.
As for a belief in the purpose of one’s life
calling?
If one examines what a belief is, a thought
contained within the mind that can be as changing as the weather in a day or as
fixed and hard as cement for a lifetime, from this perspective one does not
hold onto a belief that one has a life’s calling.
At best, choosing the journey to explore the
inner-journey of one’s true nature beneath and beyond the thinking mind’s
perception of who and what it thinks it is, has been of most value so far.
It is a practice ongoing to be at ease, to be at peace and one
with the pure moment
Every present attention required so as the voice of fear and
control does not grip one away
Into its grand stories of falsehood and pride
Look at me, it says proudly
Look at what I’ve done and what I plan to do next
Praise me for all my efforts, of what I have achieved
Let not your awareness rest peacefully in the pure moment
dissolving all my stories into ash
That’s boring, the voice of fear and control declares
For where is the conflict without me to create it?
For where is the suffering without me to create it?
For where is the drama without me to create it?
Where indeed?
Surrender.
When not writing, what do you like to do for relaxation?
Is there a special place you go to figure out life's mysteries?
Right
now, I can hear a collection of different birds all talking and singing their
unique songs; the Sun is breaking its way through the grey rain clouds, while a
dog is barking down the street somewhere. This is relaxation, a very simple yet
grateful awareness of all the beauty and mystery that is happening within this
moment is where I experience the deepest relaxation.
As for
trying to figure out life’s mysteries........
I let go
of trying to figure out life’s mysteries, this is why life is called a
mystery. And what is something that
continues to remain as a mystery, if not something that cannot be figured out?
Accepting
that life is the ultimate unsolvable mystery has allowed one to be in the
mystery of life itself, a continuous adventure into the unknown imagination and
possibilities of creation, what more could one want to experience?
Spirit, great loving spirit
Emptiness of thy vessel opens to a grace so untouchable
Like the beautiful butterfly that teases the senses
But remains just out of one’s reach and touch.
Your book, The Spirit of Love, is so
powerful. If you had to summarize your book in one sentence, what would that
be?
There exists a belief in the
thought of you, dissolve it.
What makes your book stand out from the rest of
books of poetry?
I didn’t
publish The Spirit of Love to stand
out from any other books; all books have their place within the play of life,
none any more or less of value than any other. Although the book does contain
poems as a form of writing style, the essence of the book is beyond any
category or genre that it gets labelled into.
The Spirit of Love will find its way to whomever it is destined
to.
What’s next for you?
I don’t
know yet, maybe I’ll go outside and feel the warmth of the Sun on this body,
maybe I’ll have a cup of tea, I guess I’ll know in the moment of when I am
experiencing it.
The awakened One leaves no footprints upon the earth that one
treads
Such lightness that the weight of the past dissolves behind each
step
Leaving no trace of such an existence
Such presence
That the future never sees the awakened One coming before one
appears
Thank you to The Literary Nook for accepting this
interview, thank you to all the readers out there and to everyone for being
here on Mother Earth in this moment, love knows the way home.
the spirit of love, known as glen
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