Robert Lax is one of the great experimental poets of the 20th century, a daring and original avant-garde writer who was sought out as a sage and a mentor. He was a circus performer, a clown and a juggler, and well known for being a close friend of Thomas Merton. McGregor knew and loved this man and wrote a biography to make this remarkable manâs life and works better known to more people.
He says of Lax, âRobert Lax was the most significant person Iâd ever met...I felt his life was unusual and fascinating and it was a good opportunity to explore someone so unique and special in both a spiritual and artistic way.â As Lax searched for a vocation he decided that perhaps a person following a religion of love ought to be a prophet of love. Lax had the courage to go his own way and did not follow any shortcuts in his pursuit of truth and God.
McGregor interprets Laxâs philosophy of life as one in which âlove goes in all directions. It takes you deeper into yourself and it takes you into other peopleâs lives and into your interactions with them. He felt that life is meant to be a unity and all things in harmony. That didnât mean just all people in harmony, that meant our interior in harmony with our exterior, our sleeping and dreaming in harmony with our waking consciousness, all things coming together in that way.â (hosted by Phil Cousineau)