Writers are used to being in the hand of Fate. When you get your own voice for sure at last, it’s like being knighted. You never need doubt the holy voice again. Soon tho, you realize that you are really an amanuensis for Something Which Speaks. The Ego does not write. It receives, like a pagan communion, the elixir. You are alive in the runes, the 3D of your sentences as they unfurl, the sentiments into images, around you. It is the alchemy. .. .. But to trust this impulse in your own living story with its bank accounts and rain and culverts as well as the parrots’ feathers is nothing if not risky. It’s being risqué may well not make up for how risky it really is . .. .   more »

"If the keepers of the keys ripped open our brains and poured in joy, tore open our hearts and poured in beauty, they’d bloody deserve the job, but when was the last time you came out of any church, mosque, synagogue, or meditation hall laughing out loud, hugging the lamppost, grinning like a fool? .. .. "Imagine if you knew you were always in church, that each of your 2,522,880,000 seconds was under the Scrutiny and within the Freedom of the Divine. (These are our words too, you know, Freedom and Divine and SuchLike.) .. .. "Imagine if you knew that you could dare put your finger in the socket of the vivid universe. Indeed that you dare not not dare. .. .. "If you do not violently love the sky, you must be all but dead. Blue, all that blue, deeper than the blue sea. They should teach you radiance, how to find it, how to feel it, each of your two-and-one-half billion unrepeatable seconds" .. .. ..    more »

I have been lucky enough to have lived an astonishing life. I?ve been a teacher for much of it. I would like to offer intensive & extensive tutoring in how to be on fire and stay sane .. .. .This is about alchemy of mind, about the integration of lucid waking & lucid dreaming. You will learn to write. You will find your own voice. Whatever your art is now, you will strip away the veils. If you haven?t found your arts yet, you will .. .. .   more »