{"id":2768,"date":"2025-10-10T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/higher-self\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:22:37","slug":"higher-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/higher-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As he keeps reading<br>\nthe cosmic energy<br>\nkeeps increasing<br>\nin his head<br>\nlike a basketball of<br>\nsubtle energy inside<br>\nand around it<br>\nlike those pictures<br>\nof halos<br>\nin eastern orthodox<br>\nicons<br>\nbut he is not holy<br>\nnor is he unholy<br>\nhe just is<br>\nhe just is subtle energy<br>\nhis consciousness<br>\nconfined temporarily<br>\nwithin a brain<br>\not neurons<br>\nand glial cells<br>\nwithin a flesh<br>\nand blood body<br>\nwith circuits of<br>\nblood vessels<br>\ncirculated<br>\nthrough it<br>\nhe is patiently<br>\nawaiting the day<br>\nwhen the he that<br>\nis a small part<br>\nof higher Self<br>\ncan be united<br>\nwith Self again.  <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he keeps reading the cosmic energy keeps increasing in his head like a basketball of subtle energy inside and around it like those pictures of halos in eastern orthodox icons but he is not holy nor is he unholy he just is he just is subtle energy his consciousness confined temporarily within a brain&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/higher-self\/\">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\/2768"}],"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=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}