Sacred Space: I don't care -- I Just Want to be there:
Being part of an endless conversation about the nature of sacred space

You can call it god or the devil
sacred or profane
you can call it serious
or just a joke
you can talk personality,
reality, modality, totality
purity or dope.
You can call it what you want to
I don't care --
I just want to be there.

You can talk how hard
or how easy it is.
You can call it universal
or just a cultural thing.
You can call it heaven, bliss,
same time same place
or absolutely different
I don't care --
I just want to be there.

You can talk about spiritual paths
Buddhist sanity, madness, love
or sexual ecstasy
you can talk about long shots, friendship,
silence, noise, secret doors
& blind metaphor
I don't care what you call it
I don't care --
just want to be there
You can talk about the moods,
music & cosmic dance.
You can talk about individuality
community, connected, disconnected
cathected, re-connected,
subjection, resurrection
or the magic of words.
I don't care --
I just want to be there.

You can talk about the part.
You can talk about the whole.
You can talk about the mind, the heart,
the body & the soul.
You can talk about the right way
the wrong way, what to do &
when to do it.
I don't care --
I just want to be there.

You can talk conscious & unconscious
dreams & lies
you can talk about the shadow & the sun
You can talk about religion
art, ritual and therapy.
You can talk about the many & the one
I don't care --
I just want to be there.



You can talk about friendship
or you can talk about philosophy.
You can talk about interior landscapes
or psychic geography.
You can talk about this & talk about that
who's doin' what & where its all at.
I don't care --
I just want to be there.
We can talk about evocation & invocation
location & dislocation
confusion & delusion
We can talk about truth & illusion
the incredible & the inevitable
We can talk about grace
or the hand of god.
I don't care --
I just want to go there.

You can talk about social convention.
You can talk about straight & bent.
You can talk about dementia, invention,
religion, drugs & mind slugs.
You can talk about forward & reversal
cold turkey or rehearsal.
I don't give a shit
I just want to nail it.

You can talk about birth & violence.
You can talk about animal fate,
You can talk about male, female,
too early or too late
I don't care --
I just want to be there.


You can talk about art & the animal soul.
You can talk about gettin' wired
or gettin' old.
You can talk about improvisation,
generalization, rehearsal & ritual reversal.
Say, hey I don't care.
You can talk about the heavenly spark
art beyond art & the therapy market.
You can talk about how to end
& how to start,
how put it all together
how to tear it all apart.

You can talk about shamans, magic
& psychological maps.
You can talk about work
play, heaven, hell -- devotional practice
& trickster tactics.
I don't care --
I just want to go there.

We can talk about maturity & innocence.
We can talk about technique
& complacence.
We can talk about mystery & grace,
about waiting & impatience,
balance & imbalance
inspiration & the work.
We can talk about the muse
tight, too tight,
loose & too loose
learn by rote
or note for note.
I don't care --
I just want to be there.
You can talk about where it is & what it is
when it happens & when it don't.
You can talk about creating it,
accepting it or staging it.
You can talk about making it,
breaking it or faking it.
I don't care --
I just want to be there.

You can talk about passion & presence,
eclectics & dialectics,
authentic & artificial,
energy flow,
blocks & stops,
cliché, cash & clash.
I don't care --
I just want to be there.

You can talk about boundaries & horizons.
You can talk about stories
& the colour of emotion.
You can talk about vision
& visualization
you can talk about sedation
& hyper ventilation
I don't care --
I just want to be there.

You can talk about reality,
existence & being.
You can talk about stillness, silence
& pure movement.
You can talk about far away
& getting closer.
You can talk about
ego, arrogance, vulnerability
outer space, mind space
when to push & when to wait
I don't care --
I just want to be there!
I don't give a shit.
I just want to nail it.