The morning follows wind-scattered corpse sky, follows rain battered pavements, follows feet walking. I step off the bus into the grey expanse, eyes focus forward to block out the memories of a warm bed.
Life follows breath, as death follows nothing... follows everything until there is a conclusion.
When you look in the mirror you aren’t looking at a reflection, rather your mind's creation of the self. Have you ever thought you were ugly? Or looked at yourself in a different light or at different times and not recognized what you see? This is the mind distancing itself from reality.
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This is the mind trying to overrule the real world, trying to impress the internal onto the physical. The mind tells you stories that destroy reflection.
Time brings a measure of comfort to us all; an illusion of achievement, a will to complete things once started. Without the creation of time humans would still be floundering in instinct, remembering nothing. Time gives us the context to frame pictures to experience what we call memory.
Without the concept of time we would learn differently. Without the concept of time our lives would be simpler - one ever changing moment, like a painting that shifts in swirls of colour, in aspect and perspective. A reflection of infinity.
When you sneeze you loose yourself for a split second, no thoughts, no memories. Just for one second the internal dialogue stops and you are nothing. The french call this la petite mort - the little death.
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My creative drive has been a little flat recently and this has been spilling into my writing. I've found myself writing less and at times it feels forced. This could be due to the fact I recently found out someone close to me has a serious disease (you can read more about this in my recent post Crypto, The Big C and the Dark Night of the Soul). Whatever the reason, I've decided to employ a few techniques I learned in university to stimulate the muse and get that creative energy back. Two things that can be extremely useful to help get out of a creative slump are keeping a dream diary and automatic writing.
Automatic writing is when you switch your brain off and just let yourself write without evaluating it. The practice is meant to be an exercise in self reflection, a way for you to find themes and insights into your inner world. Some claim it can lead to psychic channeling and communication from spirits. Often, what comes out is complete nonsense, but I discovered in university that once in a while something comes out that can be edited and rearranged into something interesting. This is not automatic writing in the traditional style, but I've never been one for following the rules. What I prefer to do when I can see strong themes in a piece of automatic writing is keep a copy of the first draft to read later and follow the initial insights to their conclusion through the editing process. This can often lead to worthwhile creative work.
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