{"id":501,"date":"2025-06-05T14:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srabond.wordpress.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:11:49","slug":"the-eastern-mystic-in-the-western-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/the-eastern-mystic-in-the-western-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eastern Mystic in the Western\u00a0World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/srabond.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-11.png?w=466\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.45509244065200744;width:209px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a world full of strangeness,<br>I am merely a mystic traveler.<br>While I traveled to seek myself,<br>I myself became a stranger.<br>I travel through time.<br>I travel through the line,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>While the world changes,<br>from an Eastern world to a Western world,<br>from a postcolonial echo to a postmodern hue,<br>from a mystic world to a world of desire,<br>in the realm of reality and desire,<br>I seek to hold on to my world,<br>I get swept away in the world,<br>I try to flow in the world,<br>I get stuck in my world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behold! the Eastern mystic in the western World of desire.<br>I am the Genie, guardian of the desires,<br>Tell me seeker, what do you desire?<br>I desire to belong in the Heart of the Self.<br>While holding Him in my heart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world full of strangeness,I am merely a mystic traveler.While I traveled to seek myself,I myself became a stranger.I travel through time.I travel through the line, While the world changes,from an Eastern world to a Western world,from a postcolonial echo to a postmodern hue,from a mystic world to a world of desire,in the realm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71,80],"tags":[43,73,77,81],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-studies","category-my-poetry","tag-english","tag-english-literature","tag-literature","tag-mypoetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srabons.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}