Title: Artist

Gender: Male

Age: 29

Sun Sign: Leo

Chinese Sign: Earth Goat

Location: St Louis, MO

“Forgive all people of their actions by creatively seeing the All within them. Seeing God in the other even as the other acts in an evil manner requires divine imagination, the ability to create an image not present to the sensory system. By observing a supposed objective truth out there, we become passive victims relieved of responsibility. Instead, we can use our eyes in active vision, to see with, not through. Rather than compounding our neighbor's error through intellectual condemnation of him, we can enter actively into that relationship with our heart. Freeing him from error with our mind's eye, we open him up to deliverance in his own. There is only one heart, and it can take any form.”                   
                                - Joseph Chilton Pearce

                                         
With the blessing of God,  I am learning to operate the energies of my body and the intellect of my mind with the Intellegence of the Heart, and thereby transform myself and culture into an open vessel of Love, Compassion and Understanding, free of prediction and control and open to the Creativity of every moment.

I am an artist in both fields of poetry and collage, yet I try not to limit myself by gaining a sense of self worth from those endeavors. I enjoy performing Slam poetry, which gives me the chance to focus on the Heart and Emptiness while flowing a stream of (hopefully) transformative words.

At this moment I work in a video store and live with my mother, which gives me the freedom to follow my passions of jogging, weight training, meditation, reading, writing poetry and crafting collages, among other things.

I am inspired by this website and the people whom make it possible (that's you!). May I uplift your spirit in the way in which have lifted mine. Below is a poem of that I wrote……hope you enjoy.

(This poem was manifested after a trip to New York City to visit Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. While there I attended a poetry workshop and  a new Moon gathering, both of which opened me to new realms of Imagination. When I returned home I wrote this poem in two sittings, and it is one of my favorite pieces.)


True Calling by Jason Turner

Blessed are the meek
Blessed are the weak and powerful
Delusion denying Divinity
Cerebral passivity defying logical Vision
Stacking division with microcosmic precision
Hardly a matter of matter
Battered and bruised
Scatter-brained and confused
In this pontificating protoplasm

Juxtaposed by Horus
Planting solar souls
Shrouded in Mystery
Shrouded in misery
Basking in liberty
When the veil lifts
Gifts of the earth and the Sun
Come together as one
Giving birth to the Universal Son
Who shines forever and a day
Forever within today

Illuminating grey skies
And blackened minds
With crystal blue tigers
And neon orange dragons
Fire and Water
Wood and Metal wagons
Roll down the pathless path
Into starcrossed harems
Where wives, mothers and sisters
Cry tears of blood
Write poems of Love
Menstrual ink writhing on the saddest of pages

True sages bow to the womb
Surrender and consume
The apple that's forbidden
Consider the snake forgiven
Then gently place him around their throat
Evil doers, lovers and brothers
Pardoned reflections of each other
Reflections of me
Reflections of the sea

I see the shape of things in clouds
Life and death
Birth and breath
Decay and regret, decay and regret
Twisting and spinning and spiraling through Eternity
Dream-like dimensions dancing like Shiva
Dancing as Shiva
Sacred sparks the silence
Sacred marks the violence
As crime against Self

Whose promise of the pouring rain
Is to wash away our sin
Bathing in the Clearing Light
That rainbows from within
We are I and It
The Good, the Beautiful, the True
Fibonacci sunflowers speaking morning dew
Crafting new realities to view
With crayons of imagination 
Tracing through the energy field
To the Source of all Creation
And calling out It's name
We are the same
We are the same
We are the same
We are It
And That is That

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