My darling wife Luciana in the last weeks of her pregnancy.

     It is an absolutely wonderful time for us, the love is flowing like a river through both of our hearts. I met Lu almost ten years ago soon after my first son Maurice was born and me and my then wife Silvana made her his godmother. Three years later, after about a year writing The Marriage of Souls, I said to her, "I feel married to you in my soul." It was not until six months later, after her husband abandoned her and her baby son Bernardo, and while Silvana was having an affair with my dentist, that I invited Lu to open up to me as a man, with an invitation for a kiss. Her response, "I only kiss boyfriends." But a week later she came down to visit us in our home and asked Silvana if she could open up to me. Silvana naturally said yes, how could she respond otherwise though perhaps she regretted it afterwards, for the river of love that flowed from that first kiss has only widend and deepened through these seven years. The following is one of the poems that came from the first moments of our experience and shares important insights into the nature of vulnerability and love.

When the vulnerability of being meets up with an equal vulnerability of being
a strong bonding force is naturally set up between these two beings.
Open hearts can do nothing but love
and when two such hearts meet
explosions of love manifest
and there is nothing we or anyone can do about it.
Anytime two being touch closely on our planet it is something of a miracle.

     But remember this was happening in the context of my continued relationship with Silvana and after six months of being with both women we all ended up living together for about five months. It was unfortunate and very painful, to say the least, that this did not work out. And ever since I have lived in a more traditional form with Lu, yet neither she nor I seem to have a traditional bone in our bodies. Before this time I hardly even believed in the efficacy of the couple any longer and was concentrated on bringing what I call small group consciousness into family life. With the love I found with Lu, I was able to finish The Marriage of Souls and cap it with the subtitle, The Second Coming of Pure Love.

Two angels in love on earth their love flourishes.
Perfect love, ever sweet harmony,
their love light penetrates to each to others souls
and is mirrored in their eyes.
Perfect in every sense through pure understanding,
mind, body, and spirit touching in one never ending embrace.
Pure beings sharing pure love, each deserving the other
yet their love pours forth into the world of others.
Ready to share and care their deep well of love.
Expanding their vulnerable light
being what they are their love shines bright.

     So yes I saved the idea of the couple and found the most pure definitions of love for The Marriage of Souls. Yet I have changed, on the most fundamental level of our primordial imaginations, the images of love, relationships and even romance. I wrote way back then that a new light of non-possessive love was coming to earth. Yet it seems only now that I am ready for what is coming. For many years:

I suffered the pain of my love knowing
that it can never be fully expressed.

     Now I seem ready again for what is expressed in the next standza:

I suffer the pain of my bliss when my cup runs over
and when I can love who I love a river flows through me without end.

     About two weeks ago, to my surprise, a small group was formed virtually to work on creating a group consciousness in cyber space. We are comitted to communicating ourselves into a space of oneness. And in this group is a beautiful woman who is now my partner in an exciting venture. We are opening up a virtual school for advanced healing arts and I am going to offer a thirty day course in Biogenic Medicine to massage students to begin with. Her name is Rena and she is studing in a massage school and within the course of a week she and I have communicated ourselves into a space of love and intimate oneness that few would believe is possible. Enough so for me to say to her that:

You are becoming part of my river, widening its flow.

     Just to give you a flavor of this from her husbands point of view, here is what he had to say to me. "I am entrusting you with one of the most beautiful spirits I've come across in this plane. Please come from a good place as everyone is very fragile when they are just beginning. I bless your union with Rena because I know that she will not harm our partnership by her oneness with you. You & rena are going to shake the world a little, as a world shaker myself, I look forward to where we are all headed."

    Of course I could say a lot more and will in due time. But this is not the end of the story for today yet. First I will soon be sharing my writings from the last few days on the role of love in therapy and medicine. In this regard I have been working with one of my wife's best friends this past month doing therapy, another very beautiful and powerful woman who has yet to open her heart to what it needs to be open to. Its another long story but in essence yesterday it became clear what our path together needs to be, and where she will find her heart also, in The Marriage of Souls. 

     And if that is not enough, with the baby kicking on Lu's belly to come out, her oldest friend from childhood called yesterday, a woman again of a most beautiful nature, one who I met briefly five years ago, and in that one day meeting between the three of us, I felt the love and potential of The Marriage of Souls. After that night, it has been years since I felt it in a broader sense, meaning outside the circle of the traditioanl couple, except one other time. And that was with another old friend of both Lu and mine, infact the woman who was married to Lu's first husband before her. She easily could have formed a Marriage of Souls, and almost came here three years ago to live with us, but in her hesitation, was killed in a car crash one terrible night.

     It hurts to even think of it. But I will not leave you on that note. I think it's time to promise you that I will turn the corner and put my attention on love and its expansion and disengage from the world scene for a while. That means I will be writing about love more and shairng loving things including of course, the birth of our child. And as I sign off here my mind and heart drifted back almost fifteen years to where much of this began, to the best friend of my ex wife from the States. To a woman I did not like but opened up to love. She knows who she is and will be receiving this Virtual Voice that was such a pleasure to write.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

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