Mirror Earth Birth · Muslim II
Hearing the One Who Calls Beneath Every Other Voice
Not “who am I?” but “whose am I?”
Book II of the Muslim edition, and the turn inward. Where The Fire Beneath the Veil asked the reader to stop defending the self that kept the veil in place, this one takes up what is left standing once that defence is dropped.
Its first chapter, Who Am I Before the Real?, works the question in stages — the descent, the mirror that reveals and removes, the falling of the knee, the pressure that makes space — and turns it, as the book’s hinge, from who am I into whose am I. The second, Deliver Your Soul, Beloved, moves from that recognition into what it costs: beauty that makes surrender possible, the mercy of being seen, the theft of attention, and the cup you are given rather than the one you chose.
Its governing word is dhikr — remembrance: holding the Real in mind and on the tongue until the heart quiets around it. Forgetting, the book argues, is the ordinary condition. Remembering is the discipline.
About the Author
Art Aloka — Artesius Meltin Aloka — is a poet, healer, and independent researcher in human perception. His work, begun in the early 1970s with Silva cognitive training, has circled one faculty for over fifty years: remembrance. Not recall of information, but the older sense — the heart returning to what it already knew before the noise of a life covered it over.
He lives off-grid on Kīlauea’s eastern rift in Hawaiʻi, where the ground keeps no record of what stood on it before, and the planet’s low pulse continues underneath regardless of who is listening.
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