In the Region of the Heart

A Collection of Written Fragments, 2018

By Jack Cain

Subjects: Poetry
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781949933048, 96 pages, July 2019

Table of contents

The Great Ship
The Cross
November 3, 2012
Solid Ground
Who
Smile
This Moment
Crust
Skrying
Cerberus
Watching
Debris
In Time
No End
My Heart Is Not Big Enough
Unfettered
The One Who Talks
Take Heart
World
Gnome
Ground
In and Between
The Space Before Me Now
Walking
Irreparable Loss
Lineage
Verticality
The Bear
The Dwarf
Humbly
A Golden Disk
Dark
The Fool
La Malinche
Scouring
Prayer
Descent
Una nave azul
The Cauldron
Holding
Buttermilk and Cinnamon
10,000 Things
Who is This?
A Line
Water
Unburdened
I See Now
The Earth Shudders
A Timeless Time
Bluestone
The Voice of the Earth
Seven White Lilies
Life after Death
The Raven
Blue
Taking Flight
Quetzalcoatl
Q Prime
The Elixir
The Emerald
Three in One
A White Horse
Touch
Glory
Un mouvement
Archangel Uriel
She Came Riding
What the Eagles Said
Still
You
The Gyre
Skrying  
Sophia
The Orb
Dialogue with Uriel
El Águila
Forget the Bridge
Just This
Sacred fire
Petrified
The Blue Mist of Timelessness
Tones of the Heart

An exploration of states of consciousness as well as journeys in the imaginal realm.

Description

Most of these "fragments" were written by Jack Cain in group poetry sessions he was facilitating. The sessions were designed to be an exploration of the distinction between material arising from the subconscious mind as opposed to material arising from our ordinary consciousness. This direction came from G. I. Gurdjieff's startling and impertinent statement that our subconscious is our "real" consciousness and our ordinary waking state of consciousness is "fictitious. " The group writing session would begin in quiet, participants would watch what arose and then write from that. Once everyone was done, the results would be read, and there would be an exchange on what had been observed. These exchanges helped those present understand that we are all much more deeply connected than we realize.