Voyage of the third eye: Book review by Fayyaz Baqir

Robertson Work’s Earthling Love is a journey of the third eye, gazing at the curtain of mystery. It sees the dance of life as described in poem 201287.2 and reveals that division hurts and unity heals. Healing begins by discovering the breath because it is the presence of the divine in the temple of the body. It is how the eternal descends on the temporal. It is the celebration of life, seeing the world as your extension and seeing yourself as an extension of the world. It is a world where consciousness knows the difference and silence is knowing oneness, a speck is a door to the cosmos, where all the earth belongs to all the people. A world of love, solidarity, and mystery where life, the song of becoming, continues through death and rebirth, “and I become one without a name”. It is the world of “oneness without a second”.
It takes you on a journey of hope where “when you are at the end of the rope, then you can experience being accepted by a power greater than you” and whispers that the “fulness of time is now”. It kindles the dream of moving from the new world to the new earth, to new dance and new civilization. In discovering the mystery of the word ” the key is not an answer but a question”. Is war not a form of terrorism for empire and corporate contracts? And don’t we find the way ” in fear and trembling, yet knowing, that no right conclusion awaits around the turn, only the way -the Tao”. How do we know how long life should be ” only Mary and her God could decide”. We also know that death is part of life. His poems talk about the impenetrability of the absolute and unknownness of the mystery, dancing on the water, and “the great love swelling and crashing on the shore of our souls”. In Rob’s words “There is no separation, only one” but there is also room for inventing a different world.