Susceptible to Light, by Chelan Harkin, is a collection of inspired Poetry that is mystical and ecstatic in nature--mystical defined as anything having to do with opening the heart to light and ecstatic having to do with anything expressed from this place.
Her poems take us to the deepest, darkest loam, where lightning goes..
All your tears will find sisters in her poems, and all your laughter will find a home in her belly.
She teaches us the taste of what comes out of the grape when it gets crushed.
If she teaches us, she teaches us to dance.
Chelan is a true spiritual poet because hers is not the voice of instruction but the voice of holy bewilderment.
LaMotte, author of \'Wounded Bud\' says of Chelan\'s work: So much of today\'s \'spiritual poetry\' is not Poetry at all, but pedagogy, full of do\'s and don\'ts.
Alfred K.
Make yourself Susceptible to their light.
Do yourself a favor and savor these poems.
Susceptible to Light shares the ineffable, all-consuming love of a Rumi or Hafiz, but situated in the here-and-now, amidst our dirty dishes and carpools.
Eric Weiner, NY Times Bestselling Author of The Geography of Bliss says of Chelan\'s work: These pages bear witness to a beautifully reckless and vulnerable love.
May this collection help you feel the possibility of that kind of laughter.
We keep bumping into each other and laughing.
Hafiz says, God and I have become like two giant fat people living in a tiny boat.
May this collection help you feel a taste of that sweet openness.
Rumi says, What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest.
Susceptible to Light is here to remind you of your joy, to assist you in reconsidering ways of relating to your life that better serve to open your heart, to deconstruct anything about God that doesn\'t feel close, intimate, authentic, and warm, and to remind your soul to break the surface and take a breath.
Susceptible to Light, by Chelan Harkin, is a collection of inspired Poetry that is mystical and ecstatic in nature--mystical defined as anything having to do with opening the heart to light and ecstatic having to do with anything expressed from this place
