There was something about it—the steady, grounded tone of Les Crane’s voice, the simplicity of the words, and the refrain “You are a child of the universe”—that stayed with me.
It wasn’t just the message.
It was the feeling of it.
Years later, a friend gave me a parchment scroll of the poem. And over time, it became something I returned to—not as a set of instructions, but as a way of reorienting.
Looking back now, I see it differently.
What resonated wasn’t just the wisdom of the words. It was what they were pointing to:
· The way we relate to ourselves.
· The way we hold perspective in moments of pressure.
· The internal patterns that shape how we move through the world.
What I now call Human Potential Architecture…was already present there.
This flip book is something I created years later—pairing each line of the poem with imagery to deepen the experience.
If you choose to explore it, take your time with it.
Not as something to consume—
but as something to notice.
You can access the flip book here.
It’s interesting to see what stays with you—long before you understand why.
