In my last post, my protagonist Marjorie Veil enters the Between (aka The Pathway to Self, Psi field, The Zone, Quantum Field, Collective Unconscious) by letting go of her task-oriented, controlling self and following her instincts. In other words, she crosses into the Between via Surrender. The Between is a place of inner knowledge and breakthrough experiences, where the gates […]
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Entering the Pathway to Self
Bam! Life throws you a slider. What do you do? Criticize? Suffer through it? Despair? Or do you take a different route by finding meaning in the experience, considering it a transpersonal moment, a pathway to self? “Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.” ~Eckhart Tolle The Pathway […]
Is A Bad Memory Ever A Good Thing?
Can a bad memory be a good thing? “Yes,” says Robert Olen Butler, professor of creative writing at Florida State University. When you’re an artist. In From Where You Dream, he warns: If you are a writer who aspires to create fiction that arrives at the condition of art, your literal memory is your enemy. “Tell your […]
The White-hot Center of the Unconscious
The ideal time to write is first thing in the morning, says Robert Olen Butler in his book, From Where You Dream. Why? Because that’s when you’re closest to “The Zone.” “The Zone,” he says, is the white-hot center of the unconscious, the birthplace of art. It’s where the analytic flow of your brain stops and your total […]