19 April 2011

transmogrification

I am now in a place called Henpeck, looking for means to relocate to Bardstown, Kentucky. I walk miles and miles of railroad tracks almost daily. My circle is quite small, but it feels like a productive and energizing time.
I have also been researching Magick, particularly Thelemic mysticism and Shamanism, for a 10,000 word prose story due in roughly six weeks. I have partaken in DMT on several occasions for this purpose.
(On a sidenote, a curiosum I have come to wonder about concerns the common experience to be found among either particularly strong encounters with hallucinogenic psychedelics, lucid dreaming, or in near death experiences. Namely, a sense of awakening in a science fictional hospital-like room, with benevolent but strange faces looking down on them, examining them, inspiring and comforting them. My proposition, is that such vivid visions could be a resurfacing memory that most of us in the modern world can identify with. When we first leave the womb, we awaken to the light of a science fictional hospital-like room, with benevolent but strange faces looking down on us, examining us, inspiring and comforting us. What is it about transcendental meditation, psychedelic hallucinogens, and near death experiences all calling to mind again the very first waking memory lived by almost every person birthed in the civilized world?)

In other news, I received my copy of the Harijan graphic novel from Nicholas Myers and A.N.A Comics, which has an introduction written by moi. This is a great collection of a great story. Stick up your local package store so you can purchase multiple copies.

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