Manipulating the field of perception . . . Shamanic trance postures, sending the unstruck note via written word into your blood stream . . . Scrying the dark side of the brain . . . coaxing whispers from the spaces between the emptiness neurons . . . Buddhism
Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Ray Bradbury. . .
“i think i was programed from birth to adore reading. With both of my grandmothers being librarians, there was never a lack of literature in my home. As I got older and began to develop my own personal appreciation of art, I found certain novels that pushed through me, and changed who I was as a person. Although I am always searching for a new bound copy of my dreams, it seems like I always go back to the same stories. These are the books that have changed who I am. These are the stories that diagram my life, these are the novels that i can recite every word from every page, the books that are like sex and drugs and raw emotion and life.”
Read this thread here . . . http://afropunk.ning.com/forum/topics/books-that-changed-your-life
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