CPAP SAMADHIS

for Sal and all the other sleep technicians at Bryn Mawr Hospital

1

The heart is the place where the soul sings.

2

A good night's sleep should be added to the Bill of Rights

3

The retina is the highest-order light receptor in the great chain of being. Bright, burning sands on Mars, shimmering vapors on Venus, luminous gases on Mercury, frozen mists on Saturn all delight to tales of human light reception.

4

Have you served the Gnosis lately? Did you keep its light burning for all who seek it?

5

There is nothing to fear. Every shadow in Plato's cave is dancing.

6

The light at the end of the tunnel is that of a Motel 6, kept on through darkest night and deepest fog for your heaven-on-earth landing.

7

When the heart rate reduces to 25 beats per minute, the bifurcated self can no longer function. All then and there is REMS of indivisible contentment, the human-equivalent of cat purring. Do not make any decisions pertaining to life or death, war or peace, without being in this state or the ability to restore it.

8

True sleep is your first lesson in death without, or other than, dying.

9

Welcome to immortality. Deed it to your children through love.

10

The Northern Lights are to space what the Beatles were to rock and roll.

11

The bullying 'I am' gives way to humble awe which, in turn, reveals the All. If you learn to truly sleep while living, awakening will be a daily occurrence. Where could one go other than that shared heaven of REMS? Learning to sleep is learning to die. Learning to die is learning to wake.

12

I dreamt of LSD buddies from college and assured them we could live drug-free of the burdens of duality. Clear-gaze sobriety is a form of samadhi. Don't be fooled by its unprepossessing air; The red wheel barrow is at worst a symbol of and at the very least an invitation to ecstasy.

13.

Go from ruins to runes and count your blessings.

14.

The new math: Two minus one = One. One plus one = One. One times one = One. One divided by one = One

15.

Keep warm by the light of dreams. Listen to the deep-REMS tales of the elders gathered by the campfires and under the canopy of merged sun, star and moonlight. Each beam of light strums an invisible guitar.

16

The Gnosis is a work in progress. Nothing can stop its spread. Nothing would want to.

17

If you must pray to a God other than or outside the expansive, all-encompassing Self, ask that Deity for a good night's sleep. The universe is the issue from the greatest night's sleep ever known.

--David Federman, Ardmore, September 24, 2010