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Neruda, Pablo - The heavens unfastened and open
Identifier
000635
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Difficult to tell whether it was a vision or a true out of body experience; it is graphic enough to feel like an out of body experience.
A description of the experience
Selected Poems – Pablo Neruda
The heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe
And I, infinitesimal being
drunk with the great starry
void
likeness, image of
mystery
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss
I wheeled with the stars
my heart broke loose on the wind