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The RAL Experience

Philosopher-poet, writer, astrologer, lecturer, discussion group facilitator, Ron "The Lamp" Lampi, Ronald A. Lampi (Ral)

I am here to share with you the bottomless gold mine I have found.

Ron Lampi, Philosopher-Poet

Remember, there is always more than meets the eye, unless you can see with the other Eye. The Golden Thread can appear anywhere. I have no doubt, you'll come across it in this Labyrinth we travel together. Clues are everywhere.

Maybe you are one who still
    has ears.
Maybe you are a seed—
To hear the Tree singing,
that you might become
       a Tree
                  singing

My challenge has been: That a poet can make a difference in today's world.

Can a poet make a difference?

Is it possible that a poet in the Postmodern world can offer the world a Vision?

I do not consider myself a Postmodernist, but I have lived through Postmodernism-my work is meant to be the transition out of Postmodernism.

Is this a Renaissance time? Are there those of us who are the Renaissance figures of this time?

Follow with me the guidance of the Golden Thread through the corridors of the Labyrinth and we will reach the Living Fountain. It is the Fountain of Unlimited Creativity. I invite you to enter this Fountain with me and I promise you you will come to know its secret-the Living Waters of Spirit. You will begin to see with the new eyes-the Eye-offered by its Vision. It is the Vision of Psyche.

I am the poet who has been called to reweave the World Fabric with the Golden Thread. What others have only hinted at, generalized about, beat around the bush about, only talk about, I am called to spell out and make explicit. There is much talk about myths today, and playing at dead myths; through the Vision of Psyche, I have been granted the new Word that is Mythos. I am a mythmaker for the contemporary world, my Calling to bring the new Mythos into the world.

The Mythos begins somewhere
and must begin with someone

On the local level, where I live, I have become the self-proclaimed poet of Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay. I have written more about, and celebrated more of, this place than any other poet I am aware of. The Vision was given to me here, as I stood upon the cliffs that overlook Monterey Bay. It was over our Goddess Bay that the Vision of Psyche appeared to me some 25 years ago. I am only now beginning to share the whole body of my work that begins to bring this Vision, its Mythos, into the world. For this Vision is more than regional, but is of this time and of this Earth.

The Vision of Psyche can be found in different works, such as: The Birth of Psyche, Technos & Psyche, Advent, The New Age Vision and now a work by that title,The Vision of Psyche (see the link on the left). The Vision permeates all my work. My first emphasis that mythmaking is key to the transformation and renewal of our world is found in my poetic prose manifesto The Golden Thread, written some 25 years ago.

I invite you to join me in the weaving of the Mythos coming into the world. There is a New Story beginning to be told on Earth, and many are called to help tell that Story.

Nietzsche: God is dead. End of Story.

Postmodernists: We agree. There is no Story.

Lampi: The Gods return. Beginning of New Story.

Some of the Themes that you will find in my work:

Now that you have found me, do not let go of me.


Have I not spoken of you yet?

Have I not celebrated you yet?

Eventually I will—

You, to me, are a luscious fruit.

And there are so many on the Tree

        of Psyche—

                              Be patient.

I will taste of all of you

and sing of all I taste of all of you—