Falling Back into Grace

 The following excerpt from a poem, indicates an advantage of welcoming the right brain into thought. The right brain offers a sense of immediacy and authenticity, allows the "story" ( the external series of events) to be experienced in a way that can help us learn our "truest path".      

The biblical account of the fall from grace includes eating from the tree of knowledge (of good and evil, and other discrete forms of "knowing" and of duality) as a contributing factor for falling from grace. Perhaps a return to right brain awareness (the right brain is known for seeing whole patterns - gestalts) is a way to help us fall back into grace. 

But if the left brain knowledge and differentiation is maintained, then the falling back into grace is not merely regression to the garden of Eden (a largely undifferentiated whole); it is the eating of the fruits of the Tree of Life, a differentiated whole that is once again unified, but now more highly integrated. 

Falling back into grace is actually a falling forward into a higher stage of consciousness and being.

From poem, Being Found by Yourself (letting a poem be a deer):

"... In this story, there is no distance

between the young man, his last breath, 

and the breathless anticipation of the listener

as he or she hears the story, 

or sees it in the mind, 

out from the blind

of mere plots plodding along

without intersecting themes. 

In this story, you live like Tristen

lived in Legends of the Fall, 

committing wholly to your truest path, 

hunted by that holy ghost

who helps you, as the young man in the story, 

'die a good death'. "                                                

 Darrell Moneyhon