This pocket-book-size collection written by Maja Trochimczyk over the past twenty years includes 29 poems and 11 "incantations" that focus on the intertwined spiritual concepts of Light and Love. The poems, initially created within the Catholic mystical tradition of contemplation and adoration of the Divine presence, gradually evolved to encompass a broader scope of spiritual insights, without losing the main focus: reaching out in Love to the One Light, the Source of All. The simple and repetitive meditations and incantations are meant to inspire, uplift, and fill the heart with Light and Love.
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Table of
Contents
POEMS ∻ 1
A
Passage ∻ 2
A Walk
in the Canyon ∻ 3
No More ∻
5
Timelessness
∻ 6
Awakenings
∻ 7
The Bluest
∻ 9
A
Subliminal Song ∻ 10
The Gift
of Patience ∻ 11
A
Promise ∻ 13
The
Feast ∻ 14
Of Bliss
∻ 15
Seeing
Madonnas … ∻ 16
Rosa
Mystica ∻ 17
The
Cornerstone of the Soul ∻ 20
How to
Cross the Great White ∻ 21
After
the Crossing ∻ 23
The
Vanishing Point ∻ 24
See How
we Dance? ∻ 25
From the
Mountains ∻ 27
Convergence
∻ 28
Gloria ∻30
A
Perfect Universe ∻ 31
Cosmos ∻
32
Elijah’s
End ∻ 34
In a
Magnolia Courtyard ∻ 36
On
Squaring the Circle ∻ 37
Repeat
After Me ∻ 39
A
Rainbow Vision ∻ 41
Meditation
on Light ∻ 43
INCANTATIONS ∻ 45
Morning
Greetings ∻ 46
Our
Mother ∻ 47
Breathing
Affirmations ∻ 48
On Being
a Tree ∻ 50
Being
the Sun ∻ 51
Crown
Jewels ∻ 52
The
Seven Suns ∻ 53
The
Divine Path ∻ 60
The
Stream ∻ 62
The
Shield of Light ∻ 64
The
Shield of Love ∻ 65
∻
Introduction
After writing and
editing a variety of books on music, dance, and poetry, and publishing poetry in
various journals, I decided it is time to do something completely altruistic,
without any shadows within, with a clear direction upwards, to the light. I
pulled together my “enlightened” poems from the past 20 years and created
“incantations” – personal meditations and prayers, designed for quiet reading
alone to uplift the soul in the morning, or provide a respite in a busy day.
My fascination with
the twin themes of “light” and “love” dates back to my “conversion” period in
Poland, when I read the Bible from cover to cover and started collecting all
references to these mirrored themes that I could find. I thought of writing a
mini-treatise on the topic of Divine Light to celebrate my baptism in 1987 at
the age of 30. But somehow, I got too busy with other things and my treatise is
now coming to life in an entirely different form.
On my spiritual path, marked
by a late start and guided by many unusual visions and revelations (suitably so
for a complete sceptic who would not believe in anything, unless personally
experienced) I owe a debt of gratitude to many who have led me on the path of
Light. First, my Godmother, Sister Elia of the Franciscan Sisters in Warsaw, taught
me rigorous “rules of conduct” as a perfect daughter, mother, student, and
mystic – especially the Ten Commandments and the Two Commandments of Love.
Along the way, while
making a discovery of a complete new continent of spiritual and religious
writings, I read with great interest The
Cloud of Unknowing, the writings and biographies of Blessed Hadewijch; Rumi;
St. John of the Cross; Father Teilhard de Chardin; two twin souls, Discalced
Carmelites Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (to be Canonized in October 2016); and
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus from Lisieux, and many others, including poets
Czeslaw Miłosz and Emily Dickinson. One of the most influential books was Guidelines for Mystical Prayer by English
Carmelite, Ruth Burrows.
In the 2010s in
California, I found insight and love in the poetry and friendship of the
“Spiritual Quartet” – four women who have taken birds as their totem images while
pursuing their own paths into Light, sometimes parallel, sometimes inter-woven.
Lois P. Jones (“the Phoenix”), Susan Rogers (“the Hummingbird”) and Ambika
Talwar (“the Peacock”) have been faithful companions and guides on my own way
into the Awakening. I’m “the Dove” of love, they decided, and so be it.
The poems and
incantations in this volume do not express any particular spirituality or
religion, except my own mystical focus on the unknown Source of us all, the
Light that draws us near, the Love that keeps us connected and dwells in our
hearts.
Baptized at 30 into
the Catholic Church, after a long search for the right path, I’m an usher in my
local parish. But I also seek enlightenment where it can be found, so I attend
“light-giving” sessions at the Sukyo Mahikari Spiritual Development Centers
(with Susan Rogers as my guide) and spiritual healing sessions given by
inspired healers, filled with Divine light and grace, Kimberly Meredith and
Ambika Talwar.
Some of my “incantations”
feature fragments of Catholic prayers, such as the Shield of St. Patrick, or
words borrowed from Kimberly Meredith, or Messages by Archangel Michael
channeled by Ronna that I found on YouTube. I also paraphrase ideas and inspirations
from the Convoluted Universe books by
hypnotherapist Dolores Cannon, The Law of
One, the Spiritual Development Course
by the Abbotts (Australia), and the Emerald
Tablets of Thoth. If there are any others, whose ideas I may have adopted
as mine without proper acknowledgement, Love and Light to you all!
There are so many
parallels and synchronicities in the mystical traditions. While reading the
Prayer to Fukushima Waters, for healing of the environmental damage, written by
Dr. Masaru Emoto, you might recognize the sections of the Catholic Mass:
“Water, we are sorry” (Mea Culpa), “Water, please forgive us” (Kyrie Eleison),
“Water, we thank you” (Eucharist), “Water, we love you” (Communion). At least, that’s what it seems to me, but I’m
a Catholic, converted from scientific atheistic worldview. The “Divine
indwelling” described by the Carmelites parallels the discovery of the
Adamantine Particles of God, the Spark of Divine Light, or the loving
connection to the Source deep within our hearts, contemplated in meditation.
Finding the way to
becoming a Child of Light has been the greatest adventure of my life. I leave
my reflections to my readers, with the hope that they, too, shall follow their
own paths into the Light!
Maja Trochimczyk
On Squaring the Circle
It is a
simple square that contains a circle –
four
ideas, four words –
— sorry — forgive —
thank — love —
No need
for explanations,
long
winding roads of words
Leading
into the arid desert
of
heartless intellect, auras
of
geometric shapes floating above
your
head – a scattered halo
of
squares, sharp-edged cubes
prickly triangles,
and hexahedrons.
No, not
that. Instead let us find
the
cornerstone of simplicity –
Sorry – to erase the past
Forgive – to open the path
into the future
Thank – to suffuse the way,
each moment
with the velvet softness of gratitude
Love – to find a pearl
unlike any other
a jewel
of lustrous shine – incomparable,
dazzling, smooth, pulsating sphere
A dot on
the horizon grows
as you,
step by step, come closer
until
you enter into the shining
palace
without rooms
where
inside is outside,
the
circumference is in the point,
the
point in the circumference,
where
movement is stillness
and
stillness dances within –
traveling
to a myriad of planets,
suns,
galaxies, with the unheard of
velocity,
being everywhere at once
Love everyone — Respect
everything
So
that’s how you square a circle
