MON 7 6:35PM (excerpt from todays licks)
CONJURING NOVEL AND ITS BLANK PAGES
tired of the discipline of actually trying to write a novel and reveling in my newfound hoodoo power
of magical vItalization where you conjure the image / reality you want in your mind and hold omto
it until reality begins to adjust itself to your vision, same same art, you have a vision, you pour
everything you got into it until it becomes a work of art, a song a book a painting, making real
into the world that which was not, so I sleep with my manuscript under my pillow and in my meditations
I conjure up my novel and I let it get substantial in my head with understanding that ima open it up
and just transcribe what I find there so I solidify it, open it up to read it and the pages are blank
CENTERING
centering: an attempt to connect with universal consciousness, the godhead, where
every thought is a conjuration, where every thought changes things, at the time I
aspired to be one of, if not the, most significant forces of my times, I speculated that
if I aligned myself with the center of the universe, I would be one w/the godhead,
and that this was a position of immense power in the world – cosmic power
TURNING THE KEY
realworld: as writer and intellectual I was always trying to position myself so as to be able to
influence the significant issues of our times. the right work at the right time in the right venue,
I call that turning the key in the hoodoo lock – everyday I sit and play, the hoodoo board of
destiny. so there was this constant monitoring of destinic dynamics and maneuvering to
effectively place myself and my evolving cosmology for maximal influence on that dynamic –
realworld: mystically inclined writer and political intellectual,
spiritworld: hoodoo sorceror and would be prophet
same powers, manifesting on different planes – two head man
MILESTONE: PELMAN THE POWERSHAPER
scifi - in one country a traveling player, in another a prophet, in the third
a magician, im seeing how the power operate in different contexts
MILESTONE: MAGISTER LUDI
when he leave the academy to become itinerant storyteller
at least that’s how I remember it and one of his tales is about
a tribal storyteller, and again im seeing dimensional work
the academic and the storyteller, same player, diff dimensions
and I value the ability to move among dimensions, this also
work in the mythic dimensions, once you get to traveling . . .
amongst dimensions,, dimension work, hmmm
okay that term just came to me, I detect ideological value
im referring to how I occupy diff roles depending on what
social milieu im operating in, but they all blend, as an artist
I write about hoodoo prophets so when I walk the walk im
thinking research, im thinking material for my novels, as an
academic my go to course was literary hoodoo, exploring
magic in afroam lit (all works im intertexting) and the magical
nature of literature, it was a popular class, and there is that riff
at the end of mumbo jumbo where labas is a visiting lecturer,
it was all very meta, fact that im a metafictional writer, life
leaking into the work, work leaking into the life, just me playing
more dimensional games, so ok flowers can you define what
you mean by dimensions, fuck it, might not be clear to you
dear regulators but its clear too me and ive run this thread as far
as im gon run it, I believe in following fertile threads when they
pop up, then you got to get back to work / process
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