Son Rivers

Now Knows: This is That Son Rivers Second edition

Now Knows is an attempt at a Blakean book of innocence, experience and prophecy. Written in three parts, various varieties of texts are used for pointing to nondual truth. The first is called ?The Lost Books of Aum Dada? and includes an epistle or two, an apocryphon, an apocalypse, and other tracts used in revelation. It is very much concerned with universal consciousness as the means to witness truth.: ? in ?the apocryphon of aum dada,? it begins, ?The whole world is the creation of I-Am. Mind has always been its tool although mind ran way with that world.? ? in ?the lost book of truth,? it continues ?this third step, reality, the absolute, is not something a person can think, nor does i-am attain; the truth comes to i-am.? ? in ?an epistle to lao tzu,? it suggests ?in the end, there's no teacher, no student, no teaching, no lao tzu, no translator, no reader, only light, only travelling w/o tracks, Way.? The second section, ?The Gospel of Aum Dada,? is something completely different: a coming-of age memoir fictionalized as a spiritual event with paragraphs such as this: ?It was slow going. Step-by-step, we searched out the road like two blind men. I was still a little high from the joint we had smoked outside before the movie. Not that Dr. Strangelove required anything to make it strange, but we thought it might be a good idea to match the consciousness of its particular brand of sanity with something similar ourselves. And now that consciousness was walking in the blackness of a world gone dark. There was nothing there but me, and I was just this bodiless entity stumbling in the emptiness of night. I was free to re-invent the world in any way I saw fit. In fact, there was nothing else I could do.? The last section is a collection of writings called The Sutras. They are written as autonomous lines and then collected and arranged to form an entity much like a poem. They may touch upon various objects like whitey bulger, summer, unemployment, drug lords, cicadas, but they all have one subject in mind: consciousness and awareness: ?it's a hyperconscious node of consciousness emanating from my consciousrest of pure awareness.?