Alan Moore on writing and magick

Klint Finley
via http://mutateweb.com/archives/2005/02/16/alan-moore-on-writing-and-magick/
New Alan Moore interview:
AM: I’ll give a brief recap in case we feel we missed anything. Magic and language are practically the same thing, they would at least have been regarded as such in our distant past. I think it is wisest and safest to treat them as if they are the same [...]

Write Magick

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 [...]

Jack Kerouac’s Essentials of Spontaneous Prose

Via http://www.languageisavirus.com/
SET-UP
The object is set before the mind, either in reality. as in sketching (before a landscape or teacup or old face) or is set in the memory wherein it becomes the sketching from memory of a definite image-object.
PROCEDURE
Time being of the essence in the purity of speech, sketching language is undisturbed flow from the [...]

Writing A Great Script Fast In A Nutshell

Follow along with this fast and easy step-by-step process for thinking up a great script or story idea! Learn how to brainstorm for film ideas that fit your skills, interest and production platforms. Take that new film idea and learn how to add a visual theme, plot points, character traits, twists, metaphors/symbols, conflict/obstacles, setups/payoffs, suspense, [...]

The Writer’s Journey and Mythic Structure with Christopher Vogler

Christopher Vogler, author of the international best-selling book THE WRITER’S JOURNEY explores the powerful relationship between mythology and storytelling for screenwriters, scholars, and fans of pop culture.

a zen fool’s notebook

an extended glimpse into the art and philosophy of a zen fool, poems in the creative stage, drawings, insightful quotes from past thoughtful minds . . .
Visit site for some excerpts http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fStoreID=1904618

Writing Down the Dreams

Looking back on my dream diary, I begin to see a pretty clear message emerging. What is more, there are some real great materials emerging as well. Rich imagery, archetypes, strange story lines. . .
What I am getting at is that if you work with the material in your dream diary, you have a great [...]

re: http://edublogs.org/

As I said in an earlier  post concerning my setting up a blog at edublogs, I set one up a couple days ago. I was very happy with the options and extras and environment over there. Then I go an email apologizing for a longer than expected down time and for resetting my password and [...]

edublogs.org

If things slow down here it is because I am experimenting with new blogs at http://edublogs.org/
The address is http://virus.edublogs.org/ 
http://edublogs.org/ has some interesting services, features and plans, check out what they have going on.

a fine smoky tea

Another pot of tea arrives, as they continue the discussion. Seven pots of tea so far, working on number eight.
ah . . . it is a fine smoky tea.
“So what is it exactly that is getting to you? I hear all the stories you are telling me, but I sense that you aren’t telling me [...]

Ask and it will be given to you

Matthew 7:7
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
So I asked, “in what ways might language be a virus from outer space?”
The first answer to begin unveiling this interconnection arrives via http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000060.html 
Is Humanity Being Hacked?
Sometimes when I am in deep meditation [...]

Dancing the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

I wish that I didn’t have to be an ancient, reincarnated, bristle cone, grandfather, guru. I get tired of already knowing everyone and everything. Sometimes I can forget and everything is new and unknown, it’s a different kind of magick when all things are new and unknown. This time I was fortunate enough to cover [...]

email reminder clump

Todays email reminders from http://lojongmindtraining.com/ are actually a compilation of several days. I have been away from the computer for a few days and my email has piled up. I considered to stop posting these, but the act of posting these has actually prodded me to at least think about writing more regularly. While away [...]

Odyssean Inferno

by D. M.

Grasping the pen in need of something, anything to pull you up and make sense out of life’s struggles, some reason to go on and some place to go on to. Tennyson turned to poetry at an early age, due to an unhappy home life. His writing skills enable him to cope well [...]

Lists of feelings and needs

I have been contemplating and studying a couple of lists from a web site on Nonviolent Communication. I am finding that in studying communication, language, psychology and group work, I am coming across some great material that can also be used for writing, character development and the like.
Here are a couple lists . . .
feelings [...]

Sending and Taking Should Be Practiced Alternately.

Todays email reminders from http://lojongmindtraining.com/
Sending and Taking Should Be Practiced Alternately. These Two Should Ride the Breath
Sending and taking is a very important practice of the Boddhisattva path. It is called tonglen in Tibetan: ‘tong’ means ’sending out’ or ‘letting go’ and ‘len’ means ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. ‘Tonglen’ is a very important term; you should [...]

In Postmeditation, Be a Child of Illusion

Todays email reminders from http://lojongmindtraining.com/
In Postmeditation, Be a Child of Illusion
Illusion does not mean haziness, confusion, or mirage. Being a child of illusion means that you continue what you have experienced in your sitting practice [resting in the nature of alaya] into postmeditation experience.
You realize that after sitting practice, you do not have to [...]

Rest in the Nature of Alaya, the Essence

 Todays email reminders from http://lojongmindtraining.com/
Rest in the Nature of Alaya, the Essence
The first six types of consciousness are the sensory perceptions: …eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind consciousness. The seventh type of consciousness, nuisance mind, is a kind of conglomeration called nyon-yi.
The idea of resting one’s mind in the basic alaya is to free [...]

Author Unknown

The following post was pilloried  from http://dailylight.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/reading-70-from-divine-remembrance/
I am including here because it fits in perfectly with the tonglen and lojong postings and is yet more great material that may prod me to writing.
Enjoy!

Heavenly Father, Help us
remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours [...]

Daily Reminders; Regard All Dharmas as Dreams

Another thing about these email reminders is that they are in the order that they are found in the book that they are taken from, just so you know.                   Available from . . . http://lojongmindtraining.com/
Regard All Dharmas as Dreams
You can experience that dreamlike quality by relating with sitting meditation practice. When you are reflecting on [...]

a virus from outer space

a la: http://www.acjournal.org/holdings/vol6/iss3/responses/attias/virus.html
“Language,” William S. Burroughs reminded us, “is a virus from outer space.” Performance artist Laurie Anderson adds, “That’s why I’d rather hear your name than see your face.” This metaphor captures [...]