God Book

By Arlene Corwin

Arlene Corwin believes in God calls herself God centered. What does that mean? A first cause embodying all realities: reality in a nutshell in which all opposites resolve, God one energy, conscious, streaming light, ending in light, soundless, without gender, absolute (all else being relative). It is the only quest worth the thinking about, the devoting to.


God doesnt do. God doesnt have to. Still, theres doing done; endless forming, endless creating, for which there is nature.

God Book is a collection of reflections, analyses, insights, small revelations. Ms Corwin: God Book is written about the most mesmerizing, engrossing non-thing ever: the many aspects of a subject irresistible and endlessly interesting.

Arlene Corwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 8, 1934. A graduate of New Yorks High School of Music & Art and Hofstra University, she is a professional jazz singer/pianist and author of 12 previous books. Her writing desk looks out on deer, lingon- and blueberry bushes, pine, fir, birch and one struggling oak. The living room is meters from the lake Stora Hrsjn (pronounced hairsheun); the kitchen sees feeding birds, forest mice, squirrels, an old stone wall, boulders in the garden left there when the Ice Age retreated 10.000 years ago and, to make the wild civilized, flowers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499062847

Arlene Corwin

Arlene Corwin is a professional jazz singer/pianist, yoga practitioner of some 40 years, and author of 11 previous books, each circling round some singular aspect of life. A graduate of the High School of Music & Art and Hofstra University, she lives, performs and teaches in Sweden.

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Copyright © 2014 by Arlene Corwin.

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CONTENTS

Preface to God Book

A Car Is An Idea

A Channel Of Blessing

A Couple Of Bangs

A Long, Long Time Ago

A Vehicle Of Truth

A Walk through The Cemetery

A Writer’s Prayer

After Three Glasses

Ah, Love #1

All I Think About

All The Best Mystics

A Singer Looks At Song Titles

Basic Science

An In-The-Bath Meditation

Become a Mystic

Besides, It’s All In Cycles

Bits of The Puzzle

Body Historian

Breaking Through The Moon Barrier

Cheerfulness A Habit

Connecting

Cousin Roz

Covering The Arguments

Chemistry of Word

Creative Process

Damn, I Killed An Ant

Deeply Within

Divine and Human Love: Impossible To Disentangle

Don’t Fire God

Don’t Need A God

Don’t You Think It Odd?

Everywhere

Existence Process In The Head

Fighting Off Alzheimer’s

First Things First

Flight From Vanity Into Feeling

For My God Book

Four Airplane Two Train Crashes Later #1

Four Airplane Two Train Crashes Later #2

Frame Of Reference

From A God’s-Eye Point Of View

From Diary Of A Simpleton

Giving Everything

God, Am I Thinking

God Centered

God Centered - Again

God Has No Cares

God Neutrinos

God Never Makes A Mistake

God Push-Ups

Good Morning, God

Guarding God’s Good Garden: the Sun

Hamsters in A Nunnery

Home Truths

Honestism

How Sexist Can You Get?

I Call You You

I Can Write But I Can’t Speak

I Do What I Do

I Have A Koan

I Have Been

I Is Not My Brain

I Live With A Man Who Doesn’t Believe In Reincarnation

I Was Saying Silly Things

If God Is God

If I Were God.

In Preparation

In The World, Dear God

Inclusive Exclusive

Infinite Expression

Insulting God

Interested In God

Ironies & Paradox

Is There Any Such Thing As Tragedy?

It Will Happen To You

It’s All So Logical

I’ve Not The Gift

Just A Shortie

Just For The Practice

Karma You Are Kind

Keep Your Mind On One Thing

Last Vanity

Many Ways To Skin A Cat

Me In The Form Of Insomnia

Messages To The Infinite

Miniaturization And Relativity

Minimize

Mister Cause

More Questions

My Dear Budding Billy

My Charger

Nature & Reality

Niceness Of Obedience

No Adjectives Today

Not Getting There

Nothing Is Sacred Anymore

Okay God

On Looking For A Gig

On Reading Poetry To My Complex

One Day They’ll Say

Our Age’s Jumble

Out Of Nothing Something

Play Perpetual Mobile

Poems To The Child Mystic

Prayer Of The Day

Puppet Of God

Reflection While Lying On The Floor Doing Yoga

Repeat

Saying Yes

Slipping Through

Sometimes I Think I Write For Myself Alone

Soul Of A Poet

Standing At The Sink

Start Out Rubato

The Business

The Cog

The Disposable Razorblade

The Evolution Of Structure

The God Factory

The How Odd of God Series

The -ish Of The Jewish

The Jew

The Mate

The Musician Poet

The Particles Of God

The Poem, The Poet And The Reader

The Product

The Quality Of Mercy

The Quality Of Mercy #2

The Cosmic Code: What Can Crack It?

The Plan

There Is No Weather Out In Space

There’s Got To Be A Good One There Somewhere

This God Stuff

To Follow The Heart

To Get

Train The Mind

Trio of Devotion

Two Suffices

Typewriter, Correcting Fluid*

Unfinished Product

Unfolding Day

Unseasonable Heat

Very Little Goes Out

Waiting On Stinson Beach

Wavelengths

What Does It Mean When Your Friends Start Dying?

What Is

What Is It To Know?

What Thought Can I Have Today?

What You Were You Born To Do

When I Write

When You’re Not At Home

Where Does The Music Sit In An Orchestra?

While Waiting For A Miracle

Winning Time

Wondering About

Working It Through Through Coincidence

Write About The Thing You Know

You Give Me More

Preface to God Book

In this book you’ll see my theology and my cosmology. You’ll see, as I see in the editing, methods/ideas I’ve used in the past and still use. God Book is, in some places very like To The Child Mystic, only more stripped, more direct. God Book is about God. Full stop. Period.

In each new book, this being the 13th, I find myself revising and updating. Each new edition seems to bring me one step closer to whatever it is I am as an author. God Book has had so many poems altered I can hardly keep count. Starting out at 276 poems, I’ve managed to whittle them down to 168. Each new book really is a new book - even with the fact that some of the poetry was written as much as 55 years ago. I have to keep telling myself that Whitman wrote, published, rewrote, published again, re-re-wrote and published yet again. It’s such a comfort: Johnny Mercer, Leo Tolstoy, both re-writers. One could do a doctorate on re-writers

I am traceable through my poetry. The changes, the development, the evolution – I [happily] see it myself as I edit.

Sometimes I’ve addressed a personal god, sometimes an impersonal one. A He or It depends on my need of the moment. Truth is supra-linguistic - all pronouns suit. It is the relationship that counts.

Truth knows exactly what it is doing. Not that it ‘does’ in the sense of actively participating in movement. Not that it ‘knows’ in the active sense either. It’s an operating law, this truth with a big T. Not doing, not knowing, but producing effects.

You’ve got to see things in the cosmic sense –hugely; causes way-in producing effects way-out, producing in turn, causes way-out which produce effects way-in. And you, who see catastrophes, human and natural – you, who want to affix blame on something, someone – for you (I,we) there is only one personal alternative in the absence of answers: distancing in the form of seeing things as they would be seen way out in the cosmos, the only pre-supposition being this: there is such a thing as truth that is not dependent on relative values. It is Truth with a big T.

I’ve got friends who, when we talk about truth, say things like Whose truth or "What do you mean by