Of Course

By Brian James Wark

You dont have to be a student of A Course in Miracles to appreciate the relationship and situational challenges expressed in these poems by Brian. His wife, Gabriela, and daughter Alzena form a triangle of conscious direction with Brian to return home. They are ordinary people with ordinary lessons of forgiveness. His poems deal with: healing special, upclose relationships, falling off the success ladder, past lives popcorn, surefire stock options expiring worthless, boomer ageing/raging, the professor of too much truth telling, dupe-licating our parents, the halo effect, above the battleground in marriage, even ten short auto poems, thoughts while driving, and stoned out of you. What is not ordinary is applying what Gary Renard calls quantum forgiveness, seeing the other[s] and ourselves as totally innocent and guiltless . . . so different than the egos habitual denial and external projection! Then turning it over to Holy Spirit, our inner teacher, to show us the truth so that we can change our minds thinking from separation to connection and union. Remember, kindness created you kind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781503512238

Brian James Wark

Brian writes poetry of the soul and is a sculptor of idiosyncratic natural wood piece. He is director of Know ThySelf Inc. that offers spiritual education trainings. In youth sports was a big deal. Brian once scored all eight goals in a bantum 8-1 hockey tournament win. He stood first in his B. Math graduating class at University of Waterloo. He twice released a promising career at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts to go travelling the world each time for thirteen months, in the process meeting and living with all the members of his immediate past life families. He taught holistic healing courses and lived at the Findhorn Foundation in Northern Scotland for three and a half years. Teaching an ancient Tibetan healing technique took him around the world for ten years including Romania, Venezuela and Bolivia. And in the final analysis up close relationship has been hisgreatest teacher.

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Copyright © 2014 by Brian James Wark.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2014919705

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5035-1222-1

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CONTENTS

Pathology of Aggregates

A Ticket to Tow [the line]

Butterflies to Mexico

Mists

Heart Dieting

Squacking

Transcendentalist

The Ladder of my Success Against what Wall?

Cracked up to be

Core Spirit Casting Agency

House for ‘Going Home’

Halo, The Effect

RC CROSSED LEGS

The four f alliteration poem

Meta-for?

Jellybeans tightfisted in the jar

The Prof Who Would Not Stop

Gravestone to mark the Scream

Future Garden

Shared Vision

Assassinating

It Takes A Long Time To Be Indecisive

It Shall Come To Pass for You

ABOVE THE BATTLEGROUND

SPEAK TO ME

Remember to forget, Remember to remember

Paying Attention

Ken W

Dear Gabriela

Your Plan For Salvation

Origin of Man

Biggest Betrayal

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU

The LOSS

May Beth

MoreAutopoems [first thought written perilously on steering wheel]

1. Spokes

2. Disappear

3. As it Is

4. Horse

6. You Got Nothing

7. Your Metaphor

8. Wanted To

9. - Centre

10. - Sweet and Good

Music of the Spheres?

Hear Earth Cracking

I am what I have taken

The ‘nots’ disappear

May the fifteenth Half Time

You stuff

Hall not Hell

Things have a life of their own

Late Mate Observation

Died

The Dead Flowers

Day Poster

Leaning without meaning

STONED OUT of you

You never know

Travel tips

UNIVERSITY OF MOVIES

Your Part

Salesman’s Lament

Russian throughway

Wrong way, that’s all I’m going to say

Passe

You plant quotes in me

I D I O T

Aftershave

Two Hours on a Park Bench

Gabriela’s Dream

Four Ladies of Color

July 30th 2011 at Harbour Front

We die alone

THE PATTERN REIGNS

What Do I Want? That’s the Question

Mom and Son

Cues

I miss the most

Slender twelve year bridge

Letting go

Dedication to the Spirit of Truth

I do not wish to be presumptuous. I am just the beneficiary, not in any way form-ally connected to The Foundation of Inner Peace and the Foundation for A Course In Miracles. However, I do want to honor eight people who in my mind principally brought A Course In Miracles into outward expression, to the point where it is now available to me and you and 93 percent of the world population in twenty three different translations, three million copies in people’s hands and hearts to date.

Dr. Helen Schucman,

Robert Skutch

Dr. William Thetford

Gloria Wapnick

Dr. Kenneth Wapnick

Judith Skutch Whitson

Dr. William W. Whitson

Foundation for A Course in Miracles: https://www.facim.org

Foundation for Inner Peace: http://www.acim.org

Quotes about Of Course

Laughter from his quick wit and turn of phrase reminded me that it was all a dream from which I still had not awakened. I could quote my favorite gems from his marvelous eye- and mind- opening insights. Now that I have made brief summaries of each poem, I will return to them like old friends, all waiting to comfort and amuse me again and again.

Dr. William W. Whitson, Graduate Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Former Chief Foreign Affairs/National Defense of Library of Congress

Brian’s poems touched me deeply to my core. With thought-provoking candidness, he uses personal life examples, sharing his process of moving through life’s joys, pains, and matters of the heart that matter to us all. This book of poetry has the ability to invoke deep emotion as well as inquiry into the deeper nature of our spiritual beingness. It is a gift for the Soul, through one man’s expression and desire to give a part of himself to us all, that we may all pick up the pieces of our lives together, and experience our wholeness.

Cindy Lora