Jeff McCallum

There are many who scoff at alternative healing, particularly energy healing. Of course I always ask them, “Wasn’t Christ the greatest energy healer of all time?”

The Newest Garden

Master Lin leads us,

looking older.

He has no Katrina tales,

only stories of heroes and heaven.

He tells of his time in Sichuan Province,

mediating in the caves,

the caves which collapsed,

swallowing his brothers.

Earth to universe in a manner unimagined;

devouring their brothers and sisters

as though hungry for souls.

Visualizing chaos,

souls trapped under soil and rock,

or between now and forever,

I see white light encased in dark, formless armor.

A bright half-moon replaces the left half of the Buddha’s face

as he mourns and offers hope,

weeping beside us in this newest garden of life and death.

As we chant,

dark shells crumble,

light escapes,

darts and soars

courses through the galaxies,

returning light to aid release of those

continuing on the journey.