Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Magdala
    The Magdala
    The Magdala
    Ebook49 pages19 minutes

    The Magdala

    By Nathalie C.M. Sabbagh

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    It is my opinion that certain smells can happily coerce the mind or consciousness to descend into physicality; there, it is instantly reminded of its connection between ‘the self’ (itself) and its ‘human’ (the body). Enjoyment of an interpreted wave of euphoria induces the mind to fleet a pulse: “Breathe for olfaction’s sake!” The lungs comply without force and the heart follows in due course. With that being said, could such an act be defined as both a moment of weakness and self-awareness? Pheromones, chai, or lemon zest pies: mixed concoctions of delighted odors in a vibrational field of invisible muses. In trying to interpret or possibly understand aromatherapy, the mind must “sommelier” itself upon a scent. In order to do this it must subjugate itself, or if you will, allow itself to fully embody the object of which it’s trying to understand. For better words, it must surrender or fall into complete unison. How silly, but yes! Pure and simple! Why complicate it? Because it couldn’t be that simple? No fighting.... No separation! Two objects, beings, or whatever you want to call it, in a remembrance play.
    And when that is achieved, would you possibly consider it to be the epitome of ideas like ‘falling from grace’ or ‘true love's kiss’? Don’t think too hard; no misinterpretation: that would imply a thought! Right now, in this moment, I brought you here and although “here” is most certainly questionable, you followed nonetheless.

    I ask you now to go think about what I could have possibly meant or implied by all of this. Go and see how your mind can sink or swim! My take is that the journey could never repeat itself, no matter the mind at play. Even in not trying, such a path would nonetheless be part of the experiment. So would all of the littlest outliers, the contrarians, realists, existentialists, and data dots that would have tried to outsmart the game in their own witty way. There would be no end to the sensuous bouquet of possibilities created. Essentially, in reading, you too my dears have fallen prey for this book surely feels that way.

    The Magdala is an abstract depiction of a beautiful journey by means of poetry and short tales (perhaps the inner voyage of finding oneself). Essentially, your interpretation reflects its truest masterpiece which makes you ... the mirror.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanamBooks
    Release dateMay 13, 2020
    ISBN9781777048723
    The Magdala

    Related to The Magdala

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      TIME for YOU

      Jan 2, 2020

      TIME for YOU
      4 min read

    • Article

      The renaissance OF SCENT

      Aug 19, 2019

      The renaissance OF SCENT
      8 min read

    • Article

      Your Signature Scent

      Sep 3, 2021

      Does the thought of fragrance shopping fill you with dread? Or are you one of the lucky ones who knows what he likes and sticks with it? For some men, it’s as simple as putting on deodorant or slapping on some aftershave and getting on with their day

      5 min read

    • Article

      DIY spring CLEANING

      Mar 4, 2020

      DIY spring CLEANING
      2 min read

    • Article

      Create your PERFECT BED

      Feb 27, 2020

      Create your PERFECT BED
      5 min read

    • Article

      Beautiful Scents

      Sep 23, 2019

      Beautiful Scents
      3 min read

    • Article

      Budding Rivals

      Apr 7, 2019

      Budding Rivals
      2 min read

    • Article

      Waterless Beauty

      Aug 6, 2019

      Waterless Beauty
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Sweet Science Of Scent

      Feb 24, 2021

      The Sweet Science Of Scent
      8 min read

    • Article

      Health Now

      Oct 14, 2019

      Health Now
      2 min read

    • Article

      Covid And Recovering Your Sense Of Smell

      Apr 8, 2021

      When the ability to inhale a smell (ortho-nasal olfaction) has changed or been lost, or the flavour of food (retro-nasal olfaction) has altered, the NHS recommends ‘smell training’ to help recovery. This easy exercise consists of sniffing four scents

      1 min read

    • Article

      Tea Is in Their Blood

      May 21, 2019

      Tea Is in Their Blood
      4 min read

    • Article

      Yoga: Beyond Movement

      Nov 14, 2017

      Yoga: Beyond Movement
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Roadmap To Ayurveda

      Jun 12, 2019

      A Roadmap To Ayurveda
      3 min read

    • Article

      Scents and Sensibility

      Mar 10, 2022

      Scents and Sensibility
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of Diffusing

      Jun 9, 2019

      The Art Of Diffusing
      1 min read

    • Article

      FOOD As medicine

      Feb 17, 2020

      FOOD As medicine
      4 min read

    • Article

      Raise Your Vibe

      Sep 26, 2021

      Raise Your Vibe
      2 min read

    • Article

      Scents that SOOTHE

      Mar 25, 2021

      Scents that SOOTHE
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Healing Power

      Dec 12, 2020

      The Healing Power
      6 min read

    • Article

      Water Believes What We Cannot

      Nov 1, 2020

      I wrote this love letter in the spring, when there was pandemic, which was news, and weather, which was not. Now pandemic has been superseded by police brutality, the American presidential election, and wildfires. The unknowns, the unknowable, accumu

      19 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Phillip B. Williams

      Dec 15, 2017

      The masters are yet dead. Wanting to be human,I tried to rewrite The Waste Land. The canon’s reachcasts ruinous light. The masters’ pens breachthis page where, above, my own hand spectates. Babylonrisen, exorcism in reverse, whose nature upended now?

      6 min read

    • Article

      AUSTRALOPITHECA1 & STARMAN2

      Sep 1, 2019

      The countdown to you begyns with me, deere Starman, when I wander, dumbly, deep into a space hospittable to Hunger. Now, all’s desert. No milk in syte. Just pitifull sand, what shushes as it slydes through your hande to rejoin itself. I’d join myself

      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Magdala

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Magdala - Nathalie C.M. Sabbagh

      A Special Dedication

      To Angel Rogers and the Home of Om family,

      Sylvie Jutras and the Ren Xue community,

      Dr. Owen Schwartz,

      Maureen McRae,

      Family, friends, and foes,

      Shamanic tribes of the Seven Seas,

      Spirit guides,

      Forgotten people

      …

      For you were the light that guided me home.

      Mise-en-Scène

      The Mirrored Perspective

      June 24, 2019

      I looked at her

      Deep inside barricaded eyes.

      Beyond her iris’d charms,

      Annual rings of growth,

      Or lack thereof.

      Down the rabbit’s hole,

      I dove.

      Like Alice on the other side,

      I wandered.

      But …

      Would I ever fall?

      In love that is.

      Resign the hats that drove me mad;

      One day!

      And yet somehow,

      Somewhere,

      Over the rainbow,

      I dared a stare

      That day.

      A plunge of hued blues and decadent sins

      And within her ocean’s pond of wonder

      A lonesome map

      Left as a clue.

      The place where time stands still and true

      I found a door carved with a message

      A secreted line before I ventured

      How I’ve longed for this day, it said

      Marked by foreseen sight;

      Perhaps.

      The key? I whispered.

      You always had it, she said.

      …

      "Hush now, little Alice,

      To look is to enter as one."

      Prologue

      The Magdala was one hell of a birthing project! Created for you

      is a written journey from my life’s oscillated twists and turns.

      I call it my paradoxical, fragmented French rhapsody. The puzzle

      pieces that make me are the poems and tales of my inside out

      points of morality. The living thoughts that house my heart live

      in a constant state of degreed dualities. Pouring them out

      enables me

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1