“The end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time”
T.S. Eliot
Welcome fellow pilgrim.
May you be touched by the Fool.
I am Marcus Demetrius Link, thinker, writer, and entrepreneur. This is my blog where I travel as the Quantum Poet on my fool’s journey.
Everything here is about maps of meaning and pattern portals, inner journeys and modes of transportation, the transformation of being and the surrender to becoming. Most of all and in spite of its necessary inadequacies and inevitable limitations, it is about wholeness.
Wholeness is a quality of consciousness of life. This quality of consciousness is sometimes known as the Fool.
Maybe see you on the road?
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Things clamouring for your immediate attention.
Inkblot Moon: The Complete Quantum Poetry
My latest book which brings together all four parts of the Quantum Poetry series is out in hardback, paperback and ...
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This Terrifyingly Exquisite Jolt: Quantum Poetry Vol. IV
This Terrifyingly Exquisite Jolt: Quantum Poetry Vol. IV serves as both epilogue and apogee, as origin story and culmination of ...
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The Light from Beyond the Inkblot: Quantum Poetry Vol. III
The Light from Beyond the Inkblot: Quantum Poetry Vol. III weaves together archetypes, ecosystems, and the vertical axis of transformation ...
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Quanticles of Emergence: Quantum Poetry Vol. II
The seven poems of Quanticles of Emergence: Quantum Poetry Vol. II take us on a transformative pilgrimage which moves from ...
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Poems from the Global Village: Quantum Poetry Vol. I
So it began in 2004, the series of poems and one essay that has wound its way through four volumes ...
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Could our future depend on relearning what it means to be indigenous?
A talk for the Positive Nature Network on 16th May 2023
Read MoreEssays
All my essays in one place.
About the Boy – Part I
Part I of The Way of the Fool. "The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can ...
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A Wondrous Fellow Appears Out of the Darkness – Part II
Part II of The Way of the Fool. “There are human beings living in isolation and loneliness in the society ...
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Wholeness is the Fool’s Business – Part III
Part III of The Way of the Fool.“Some souls learn nothing except from human masters; others have learned everything from ...
Read MoreShort Stories
All my short stories in one place.
The Father and the Mother Make a Cage for the Boy
The Boy had had two Fathers and at least two Mothers. The Mothers were so erratic, he’d not know which ...
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The Boy Jumps Ship
The Boy had been at sea all of his life. He had been aboard a sturdy three-masted ship, a mighty ...
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The Soul Phone Won’t Stop Ringing
The Boy is pacing up and down the hallway. Like he is trying to get somewhere but he can’t arrive. ...
Read MorePoems
Poems which I have published online, in one place. These include some published in my collection Quanticles of Emergence.
Descending Into Myself
Descending into myself Meditation for the Fool Written 2001 – 2020 I I read somewhere that solitude is being alone ...
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this One will live yet
I wrote this piece while working on The Boy Jumps Ship. It helped me keep focused on and distil the ...
Read MoreTalks & Podcasts
There are a number of talks and podcast conversations out there to which I have had the privilege of contributing. These may be useful to get a sense of where I am coming from in an easily accessible format if listening is your way in.
Could our future depend on relearning what it means to be indigenous?
A talk for the Positive Nature Network on 16th May 2023
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Surrendering to the mystery
I speak with Ben Johnson about my personal journey towards self-discovery and expression. I share my experience of learning to ...
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Inner & Outer Landscapes in Farm Design
Recording & transcript of my contribution to the International Society for Circular Economy Conference hosted by the Circular Economy Department ...
Read MoreThe Hall of Fools
A library of quotes and extracts from the works of writers, thinkers and cultural creatives who have shaped my journey.
All Fools & their wisdom
There is available to us a form of transformation
“There is available to us, a form of transformation which, each time it is applied, extends and enhances the wholeness ...
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Even such a small creature as I finds intimate shelter in their embrace
Heaven is my Father and Earth is my Mother, and even such a small creature as I finds intimate ...
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The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, life is woven at the very instant you live it.
“The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, ...
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On Wholeness & Inwardness: The universe is not a thoughtlessly static and inert whole—the cosmos is not lazy, but energetically dynamic and even creative.
Wholeness & Inwardness Wholeness and inwardness are two key notions put forward by Jan Smuts in his book Holism and ...
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The qualities of the world that come to your attention are determined by the qualities of the attention you bring to it.
“The qualities of the world that come to your attention are determined by the qualities of the attention you bring ...
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It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made gay by heavenly light
It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made ...
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Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making’
Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making’ by John Keats (1891), Letter to his brother Call the ...
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What Was Told, That
What Was Told, That by Jalal al-Din Rumi 1207-1273 What was said to the rose that made it open was ...
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After the Storm
After the Storm by Boris Pasternak The air is full of after-thunder freshness, And everything rejoices and revives. With the ...
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