These poems and letters were written after a long period of meditation when I performed a research study on The Bhagavad Gita and associated texts from 2014-2018. I read the Gita some 50 times and researched other texts from ISKCON and also read the Bible. It is noteworthy that Arjuna questions Krishna persistently in the Gita and in an effort to reclaim my identity as not Arjuna I pose questions to imaginary audiences and juxtapose these fragments next to my poems for literary context. I hope this explains the fragmentary nature of these documents and sheds light on my poetic craft in the meantime.

They use emotion and explore the levels of consciousness that arise after a prolonged period of meditation – rising to chant for 2 hours in the morning and then again for 2 hours between 4 and 6 pm. They answer to transcendental senses and the difficulty of navigating the field of mental health awareness and normal waking, sleeping and dreaming consciousness that was to be the subject of my PhD thesis in 2010 and they give rise to an honest appraisal of my self before a mirror which includes the sublime as well as the divine and diabolical.