I had an out-of-body experience once, possibly twice. It was about the most extraordinary thing that’s ever happened to me (kind of a cross between losing one’s virginity and the ‘a-ha’ moment when you figure out how to ride a bicycle). Only I can know it was real, as I was the only one actually inside the experience – and no one can tell me differently. The takeaway is that, yes, our physical beings and our souls are in fact separable, and this presents to me a welcome assurance that my time here on the planet I’ve inhabited for 70 years now is not the only ‘time’ there is.

Lyrics

Soul Sailing
I am wild
I am imagination
I am the I Am

In the image of second sight I am created
Not thoughts, but between thoughts

I live beneath your reasoning
The lords of logic and thinking
Have no dominion here

My spirit soars the heights, at last released
I hold the keys to kingdoms
Far above this surface mind…
lea su lea sa ma ka la sa kala se jire jire mokulu

To know what is beyond knowing
To see far past what I can with sight
To live long after this lifetime
I wonder if I’ll ever get that right…

Soul-sailing, free flying
Away playing, never-ending
I’m going soul-sailing, dream-diving
Shape-shifting, soul ascending

And I know
Yes I know that I know
There’s a way to do it all right
Yes I know that I know that I know
I’ll find a way back to it all right

Let’s run laughing up the pagan mountain
And fall to our knees by the wisdom tree
And dance on down to the place called Eden
That’s where I know the knowing will be

imagine the magic in the image
imagination of the magi in the I Am…

To know beyond believing
To feel what seems ‘not there’
To re-invent myself right out of thin air
To trust outside life’s illusion
To breathe without my breath
I must ask at last the question
…Is this not…death?
But in the end comes the revelation
Of all that hasn’t shown
And in that celebration
We’ll know more than we’ve ever known
We’re going…

Soul-sailing, free flying
Away playing, never-ending
I’m going soul-sailing, dream-diving
Shape-shifting, recreating, oh yeah

And I know
Yes I know that I know
There’s a way to do it all right
Yes I know that I know that I know
I’ll find a road back to it all right

Yes we’ll know that we know that we know
There’s a way up to it all right
lea su lea sa ma ka la sa kala se jire jire mokulu

And so it is

We’re going soul-sailing, free flying
Child-playing, never ending
Soul-mating, soul calling
Time travelling, we’re free- falling
Soul-sailing, unending
Shape-shifting, soul ascending

And so it is

5 July 2012
Music & lyrics by George Wallace
(c) Celestial Songs (ASCAP)