{"id":2029,"date":"2025-04-24T04:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/an-illuminating-27th-summer\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T04:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:32:19","slug":"an-illuminating-27th-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-illuminating-27th-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"An Illuminating 27th Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhiteLight-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10027\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heard an old song about a guy born in a summer when he was 27 years old.<br>\nI get that song; it was kind of about me, though not directly.<br>\nAt age 27, sitting in meditation transcending like many other times<br>\nUnexpectedly, White Light lit up my head, bright like the sun,<br>\nA mind blowing moment unexpected and unprepared for.<\/p>\n<p>Knew I was about to merge with the cosmos<br>\nAnd leave everything near and dear behind<br>\nIncluding my girlfriend back then, Ruth, who I loved dearly.<br>\nFrightened, almost shocked, pulled out of meditation shaking<br>\nAs three green lights flashed above me alarmingly.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, outside of meditation Kundalini energy<br>\nFlowing from the base of my spine to the crown of my head and all around it &#8212;<br>\nAll through the waking state, an upward pristine flow;<br>\nIncomparable spiritual energy streaming nonstop.<br>\nInstinctively knew what went up was never coming down.<\/p>\n<p>Thought I was entering Cosmic Consciousness prematurely,<br>\nA chilling thought, strapped in a psychiatric ward implications.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmic Consciousness never happened, but could handle it now.<br>\nOver 50 years later, Light born spiritual energy still flows upward<br>\nFrom that mind blowing awakening in an illuminating summer,<br>\nThat transformed me from a wayward, drinking too much, partying guy<br>\nTo a 27-year-old spiritually remade reborn man who had seen the Light and was irrevocably changed forever.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard an old song about a guy born in a summer when he was 27 years old. I get that song; it was kind of about me, though not directly. At age 27, sitting in meditation transcending like many other times Unexpectedly, White Light lit up my head, bright like the sun, A mind blowing&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-illuminating-27th-summer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}