Clement Binnings, Jr.
Metaphysical, Visionary, Spiritual
Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry
Clement Binnings authors metaphysical, visionary and spiritual writings. A native of New Orleans, he was inspired by the anguish and abandonment suffered by its people stranded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to write his breakout novel Angel Through the Storms, published in 2011. This first of two novels in The Grover Series was a visionary fiction finalist in both the Indie Excellence and USA Best Books contests and received the Bronze Award from Readers Favorite in Southern Fiction. Its allegorical sequel, The Bubble Rule, depicts the battle between the desire-laden ego and its archenemy, the soul. His novels portray the transformative power of calamity, PTSD and mental dissociation to open the portals of intuition and our potential for spiritual enlightenment.
He is a retired family physician, lifelong metaphysician and a Kriyaban yogi on Paramanhansa Yogananda’s spiritual path to Self-realization. His newest work, The Bubble Rule to Spiritual Vision: A Prescription for Peace, is actually his oldest. The “bubble rule” was intuitively experienced in his early twenties during a critical moment of desperate, existential pleading to the unknown for an answer to, “Who am I, and why am I here in this world gone mad?” The answer was immediate, delivered through a transcendent, life-altering experience. Feeling compelled to share this insight, he tried but couldn’t find the words to express it. The experience led him to the spiritual path of Kriya Yoga. Twenty years later, after losing both parents in a three-year span, he began journaling his spiritual impressions, compiling them into the original manuscript for The Bubble Rule to Spiritual Vision: A Prescription for Peace. In 2006, a niche publisher was unable to enlist a distributor for its publication, and the manuscript was set aside. In 2022, having fully retired from medical practice in a world blistering with conflicts, he felt impelled to revise his shelved manuscript with the pen of wiser discernment. These are times begging for Peace.
He credits meditation and his contemplative studies of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, A Course in Miracles, and the comprehensive works and teachings Paramahansa Yogananda, especially God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita, Royal Science of God Realization, for helping him understand the mystical experience that set him straightway up the yoga path toward Self-realization.
Current Poetry Share
INFINITY
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One, two, three, four . . . . . . . . . forever and more;
Father, where are we?
Look beyond the stars?
How far does space go?
Forever and more.
Round and round and round we go,
Mother, when did it start?
When will it end?
How long is time’s span?
Forever and more.
Sunrises, sunsets,
Seeds sown,
Harvests reaped,
Bodies born, bodies die,
Round and round and round we go.
From nothing comes something;
Big bangs expand how far and for how long?
One, two, three, four . . . . . . . . . forever and more;
I close my eyes to sit in silence,
Father, mother, am I utterly alone?
Outer space, many things,
Inner space, nothing but me.
Father, mother, where are you now?
Ashes strewn to the zephyr,
Wafting through the hush filling me.
Invisible to my eyes you are now;
Am I alone?
I cannot be;
I feel you now inside of me.
How far and for how long do we go?
You summon me outside space and time,
Into inner space I dive
Where there is no one and nothing alone,
But everyone and everything
That was and will forever be.
One, two, three, four . . . . . . forever and more,
Round and round and round we go,
Cycling through Infinity’s dreams
Of stars and planets
And beings seeking beyond what it seems.