Beautiful Dream: A Poetics of Ecstasy

By Barry Cottrell

Beautiful Dream: A Poetics of Ecstasy follows on from Barry Cottrell's first book of shamanic incantations or 'utterances' - Sounding Eternity: Shamanic Incantations and the Poetics of Sonic Power, also published by drivenLine. The Preface of Sounding Eternity described the process by which these 'poems' come

• Language: English
• Publisher: drivenline
• Release date: Feb 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781739920593

Barry Cottrell

Barry Cottrell is an artist, researcher, writer and visionary. Born in Bristol, England in 1953, he studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University and art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. As an artist-printmaker, he works mainly with a burin on copper, wood or lino to produce 'poetry of the driven line.' As a researcher and writer he has explored and written about human consciousness and the recovery of primal mind.

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BEAUTIFUL DREAM

Other books by Barry Cottrell:

The Way Beyond The Shaman: Birthing A New Earth Consciousness, O Books/Moon Books 2008

Entering Earth’s Time: A Pleiadian Perspective for Planetary Awakening, published independently 2019

Sounding Eternity: Shamanic Incantations and the Poetics of Sonic Power, drivenLine 2021

First published in 2022 by drivenLine

The Clock House, Widford,

Burford OX18 4DU

United Kingdom

www.drivenline.uk/beautiful_dream

Text © Barry Cottrell 2022

The right of Barry Cottrell to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

ISBN: 978-1-7399205-3-1

ISBN: 978-1-7399205-9-3 (e-book)

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form. or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

The front cover image is Totem, linocut, 330 x 445mm by the author © Barry Cottrell

For Barry Cottrell’s engravings inspired by these poems see www.drivenline.uk/beautiful_dream

CONTENTS

Introduction

The Deep Within (Tractatus Physiologicus)

Flancia Flinchman

The Muzak Of The Spheres

Beautiful Dream (Hump The Rogue)

The Carmelites’ Rebellion

Trials And Tribes

Tendencies To Tremble

Proofs Of Entrails (Biological Substrata)

The Brazier And The Bush

Son Et Lumière

Emblematic Of Estevan

Time To Dine

Closer To Home

The Bowman Bends His Steel

Who Are The Poor People?

Intimate But Not Extinct

The Lonely Planet

Providence

The Sincerity Of The Peace

Dragon Blood

The Troll Of Animated Treifs

Epilogue (Forest of Dean)

…to move into a zone of unintelligibility, the only place where the possibility of discovery lies, where the future is not at the outset already a thing of the past.

John Cage, Musicage

Introduction

The poems in this book may at times seem unintelligible, or at least difficult to understand. Yet in his