JMVRI Issue No. 18 is a special Issue devoted to the theme of poetry and language. It encompasses two important lectures by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on his deep understanding of poetry in relation to the Veda and the structure of pure knowledge within consciousness, entitled: Poetry and the Veda and Poetry and the Veda: The Flow of Life in the Currents of Wisdom, Part I.
This Issue also includes a chapter by American writer Dr Frederick (Fred) Worth (Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University) from his forthcoming volume Manifold Poetry: The Origami of Consciousness in Word, Line, and Form, plus a selection of his poems titled Walking the Grid / Dancing the Spiral and Other Poems. The final inclusion in Issue No. 18 is a suite of poems by Peruvian poet Javier Ortiz Cabrejos published in Spanish and English entitled Selected Poems.
JMVRI Issue Number 18
JMVRI Paper 18.3
Poetry and the Origami of Consciousness: The Folding / Unfolding of Word, Line, and Form
Author: Frederick R. Worth
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
Citation: Worth, F. R. (2022). Poetry and the origami of consciousness: The folding / unfolding of word, line, and form. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 18, 31-67.
Summary (excerpt):
This paper is an excerpt from the forthcoming volume Manifold Poetry: The Origami of Consciousness in Word, Line, and Form, a book inspired and informed on many levels by the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Vedic Science, absorbed over the course of several decades. The selection printed here appears at a point midway through the book where my ideas around the concept of “origami” in poetry are just beginning to form and take wing. In this context, due to the pithiness of its statement, my choice of an expression from the Bhagavad-Gīta, Chapter 9, Verse 8, was in many ways key to my being able to introduce in a simple, general manner my idea of “the Fold” and various ensuing folding processes in the early stages of a poem’s development to the book’s readers.