https://www.radiantlightexpress.com/tour daily 0.75 2022-03-06 https://www.radiantlightexpress.com/tour/meet-the-author monthly 0.5 2022-03-06 https://www.radiantlightexpress.com/the-author daily 0.75 2022-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/201ec341-9faa-4096-a9ac-665a72f2154a/IMG_9361.jpeg About the Author - Margaret Mary Stender Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/aae4689c-1048-45e4-a3c3-dee9d4e3de5a/IMG_4971.jpeg About the Author - A Journey Toward Enlightenment What made you begin to write poetry, I am often asked. This is a tale worth telling! In my early teens, as near as I can recall, I began to search for a, call it what you will, superior power, superior being, God, a greater purpose or meaning. As a young woman, I expressly remember walking to the bookstore from City Hall to purchase a book which would satisfy the spiritual yearning which continually enveloped me. Once in the bookstore, while staring at titles and pondering, a book suddenly dropped from a shelf above my head and landed on the floor at my feet. Ye Are Gods presented itself to me. A few years after that book landed at my feet, I found the works of Jacob Behmen and, such were the times, I ordered a Xeroxed copy of the entire works — four volumes! Throughout the next several decades, these books were my intermittent companions. In the beginning, they were completely beyond my comprehension and would occasionally put me right to sleep because they required so much concentration. I read Richard Maurice Bucke’s book Cosmic Consciousness and, due to time constraints, decided to concentrate only on reading the writings and biographies of the people named in Bucke’s book. In early 1991, I began to re-read Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass now having discerned that it contained significantly more insight and depth than I had been able to relate to on previous readings. In this reading, I found correlations between segments of Whitman’s writings and those of Behman and others cited by Bucke as having been enlightened. This is where the story and the question “What made you write poetry?” truly begins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/4c2b0303-8c51-4167-93ef-ef3d070b1f3f/red+sunset+vert.jpeg About the Author - The Evening - Recognition of Something Soon to Occur On a particular night in July 1991, for a reason that was not fully knowable at the time, I knew to vow not to go to sleep that night until, presumptively, naively, and nearly incomprehensible to my mind now, I “found” God. Jacob wrestled with the Lord. Cosmic Consciousness recounted numerous people who had been enlightened. The potential for a spiritual experience, a spiritual awakening, was there, was true. I knew it could happen. Perhaps not to me and yet, I was determined. I had also read enough over the years to be vaguely familiar with a few modes of its kindling into existence and of the recipient’s resulting experience and subsequent knowledge. Now, as I write this with the perspective that the years will bring, I believe I was being led, that July night in 1991, by a higher power. I was determined to “wrestle with the Lord” by staying awake — reading and perpetuating the increasingly pronounced feeling which engendered itself while reading Leaves of Grass —at the brink of wakefulness or sleepiness until “something” happened. To my mind, at the time, this was akin to Jacob’s wrestling with the Angel of the Lord. I went to bed early, read to the point of sleepiness, kept reading, dozed off, roused myself immediately, read, dozed, read, dozed, and read and read. At a certain point, I fell asleep altogether but awakened with the memory of words which came to me in sleep. I immediately wrote them down and years later titled it Love the World Doth “Own”. After capturing the words, I felt compelled to stand and was surprised to find my equilibrium was gone. I walked into the bed, the walls, and a doorway. “Something” had actually occurred while I slept. Being very tired, and truly not fully awake, I determined it was time for me to go to sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/b38b2ec7-1597-40c8-b529-7cd1ea669e5a/IMG_4330.jpeg About the Author - The Moment - An Espousal of Above and Below In short order, I was abruptly awakened, in the deepest sense, to an intense and loud rushing of winds. Then, I experienced a sudden burst, an enkindling, in the middle of my head, and an extraordinary eruption, literally ignited or burst within me. The ignition with its pulsation, spread up, then down throughout my head toward my shoulders, down and out through my arms into my hands and fingers, then proceeded slowly down my chest to just below my arms. At that point, I clearly and vividly recall thinking, “When it reaches my heart, it will burst into flame.” — the flame which precedes or accompanies enlightenment. That errant thought jarred my mind and the traveling of the physical sensation stopped — just stopped. The enkindling lasted a full 15-20 seconds, during which time, my awareness was acute. I understood that a glorious, unprecedented interlude was occurring and I was able to analyze the sounds traveling through my body. Enthralled, the conscientiousness followed as the Gift was engifted. https://www.radiantlightexpress.com/home daily 1.0 2022-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/1f34228b-9ef9-412d-a50b-e288410c5570/rays+over+the+lake.jpeg Home - Meet the Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/9067559e-6195-4098-818b-e1b66d3aaafc/calm+water.jpeg Home - Meet the Author https://www.radiantlightexpress.com/books daily 0.75 2022-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/2f2752cd-2cb2-44f1-a9a7-47e4c5c56698/IMG_5042+%281%29.jpeg The Books - A Tiny but Radiant Light She was awakened by a sound as the rushing of winds, appearing from nowhere, tearing through the dark and swiftly approaching: then, a kindling, a pulsing flare within her head; a powerful traveling of its effect first up, then down and out through her arms and down her chest; an abrupt halt; a peace and tranquility ascended attending the knowledge of a physical gratification beyond compare. She was blessed with the greatest of gifts: a blithe-full Calm, the mediating Presence; a buoyant eternal love — Love Eternal; a Youth within; the Golden Glow; the prophetic visions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/a492201b-21cb-4c5f-a4e2-0cb97287e341/IMG_5039+%281%29.jpeg The Books - The Greening Springing The Greening Springing, with an introduction by Fred Upton, Member of Congress, Michigan, 6th District, commemorates the mystical gift of the Calm and its attending virtues; the emergence, progression, decline, and devastated-longing at the ensuing loss: its love; its inspiration; its abounding joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62140d766e1020220939a32f/fbc94db1-3a6a-4592-b8a2-031595960ea9/IMG_5022.jpeg The Books - Behold the Daybreak This is a volume of two stories: “A Silent Sound” and “In Prophet’s Truth”. Written by Margaret Mary Stender and The Unknown Poet, the message and purpose of the first story is to look within, to ask thoughtful questions of themselves, to search for the ground of their being, and to look on the outer man to view its manifestation. It strikes at the soul. It contrasts the earthly with the eternal and directs us to view ourselves as dual. “In the Prophet’s Truth” is an extension of the thought and foundation established, though it speaks wholly to the Prophet as seen through the eyes of his friend.